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Western Digital Black SN770 500 GB

500 GB
Capacity
WD 20-82-10081
Controller
TLC
Flash
PCIe 4.0 x4
Interface
M.2 2280
Form Factor
SSD Controller
Controller
The Western Digital Black SN770 is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on February 2nd, 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 250 GB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 500 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Western Digital Black SN770 interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the 20-82-10081-A1 Polaris MP16+ from WD, a DRAM cache is not available. Western Digital has installed 112-layer TLC NAND flash on the Black SN770, the flash chips are made by Kioxia. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are soaked up more quickly. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The Black SN770 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 5,000 MB/s and 4,000 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 460K for reads and 800K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 79 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Western Digital guarantees an endurance rating of 300 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.

Solid-State-Drive

Capacity: 500 GB
Variants: 250 GB 500 GB 1 TB 2 TB
Overprovisioning: 46.3 GB / 10.0 %
Production: Active
Released: Feb 2nd, 2022
Price at Launch: 79 USD
Part Number: WDS500G3X0E
Market: Consumer

Physical

Form Factor: M.2 2280 (Single-Sided)
Interface: PCIe 4.0 x4
Protocol: NVMe 1.4
Power Draw: Unknown

Controller

Manufacturer: WD
Name: 20-82-10081-A1 Polaris MP16+
Architecture: ARM 32-bit Cortex-R
Foundry: TSMC FinFET
Process: 16 nm
Flash Channels: 4 @ 1,600 MT/s
Chip Enables: 4
Controller Features: HMB (enabled)

NAND Flash

Manufacturer: Kioxia
Name: BiCS5
Type: TLC
Technology: 112-layer
Speed: 1200 MT/s
Capacity: 1 chip @ 4 Tbit
Toggle: 4.0
Topology: Charge Trap
Dies per Chip: 8 dies @ 512 Gbit
Planes per Die: 2
Word Lines: 128 per NAND String
87.5% Vertical Efficiency
Read Time (tR): 56 µs
Program Time (tProg): 484 µs
Die Read Speed: 571 MB/s
Die Write Speed: 66 MB/s
Endurance:
(up to)
3000 P/E Cycles
(100000 in SLC Mode)
Page Size: 16 KB
Block Size: 1344 Pages
Plane Size: 448 Blocks

DRAM Cache

Type: None
Host-Memory-Buffer (HMB): 64 MB

Performance

Sequential Read: 5,000 MB/s
Sequential Write: 4,000 MB/s
Random Read: 460,000 IOPS
Random Write: 800,000 IOPS
Endurance: 300 TBW
Warranty: 5 Years
MTBF: 1.8 Million Hours
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD): 0.3
SLC Write Cache: Yes

Features

TRIM: Yes
SMART: Yes
Power Loss Protection: No
Encryption:
  • No
RGB Lighting: No
PS5 Compatible: Yes

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Notes

NAND Die:

Although this Die is a 4-plane design, most Kioxia BiCS5 NAND Dies used in most SSDs are dual planes design because of Yield and production cost.
And because of the die being dual-plane the Throughput is cut in half to 66 MB/s per die.
There is no CuA (Circuitry under Array) in the Dual-Plane variant.
Typical Endurance: 1700 P.E.C.
Rated Endurance: 3.000 to 5.000 (up to) P.E.C.
Typ. Endurance eTLC: ~ 6.000 P.E.C.

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