PC World - USA (2020-11)

76 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020

REVIEWS

I

f you’re interested in a single 2.5-inch or

M.2 SSD for upgrading your system or

laptop, you can skip this article. The

WD Black AN1500 reviewed here is a

full-sized, x8 PCIe 3.0 card for use in

gaming or creative PCs—with the goal of

bringing near-PCIe 4.0 performance to PCIe

3.0 computers.

In synthetic benchmarks, it gets darn close

with 6.5GBps reading and well over 4GBps

writing. That could be good news for those

that opted for Intel over AMD Ryzen in their

WD Black AN1500 SSD: Dual

drives double the performance

The WD Black AN1500 SSD pairs two NVMe SSDs on a RAID 0 PCIe card to deliver twice

the benchmark performance of a single M.2 NVMe SSD. BY JON L. JACOBI

IMAGE: WD