WD Red SA500 4TB
The WD Red SA500 4TB costs $1,276.12 right now, or $0.319/GB. The 2TB is cheaper per gigabyte at $0.216/GB. It is rated for 2,500 TBW, about 1.4 TB of writes a day for 5 years.
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Where to buy the WD Red SA500 4TB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first, across the 2 versions of this drive we list.
- Amazon$1,276.12
- Newegg$1,849.00
Price history
Lowest in the last 30 days: $968.00. Lowest in 60 days: $968.00.
Lowest in-stock price each day at the shops we track in the US, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $968.00 on Oct 21; latest $1,849.00. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.
Specifications
Speed (rated)
- Sequential read
- 560 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 520 MB/s
- Random read (4K)
- 87K IOPS
- Random write (4K)
- 83K IOPS
- Interface
- SATA III
Endurance
- Rated writes
- 2,500 TBW
- Warranty
- 5 years
That is about 1.4 TB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.
Drive
- Capacity
- 4TB
- Form factor
- 2.5"
- NAND type
- TLC
- DRAM size
- 4 GB
Identity
- Part number
- WDS400T2R0A-68CKB0
- Other versions
- WDS400T1R0A-68A4W0
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 SATA SSDs of every size: this drive costs $319.03/TB against a typical $203.09/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.
See every capacity of the WD Red SA500 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the SATA SSDs table.
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