WD Red SA500 2TB
The WD Red SA500 2TB costs $499.99 right now, or $0.250/GB. The 2TB is cheaper per gigabyte at $0.237/GB. Stepping up to the 2TB costs -$25.00 more. It is rated for 1,300 TBW, about 710 GB of writes a day for 5 years.
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Where to buy the WD Red SA500 2TB
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- Amazon$499.99
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Specifications
Speed (rated)
- Sequential read
- 560 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 530 MB/s
- Random read (4K)
- 95K IOPS
- Random write (4K)
- 85K IOPS
- Interface
- SATA III
Endurance
- Rated writes
- 1,300 TBW
- Warranty
- 5 years
That is about 710 GB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.
Drive
- Capacity
- 2TB
- Form factor
- M.2 2280
- NAND type
- TLC
- DRAM size
- 2 GB
Identity
- Part number
- WDS200T1R0B-68A4Z0
Quality score
How we score →Scored from what the maker publishes: cache, capacity (under 1TB loses points), endurance per terabyte and warranty. Every SATA drive is capped by the same connection, so speed does not count.
Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 2TB SATA SSDs: this drive costs $250.00/TB against a typical $157.93/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares SATA SSDs with each other.
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