Western Digital Quietly Launches the SN5000 Budget NVMe SSD

lexluthermiester · Jun 21, 2024

Double-Click said:
If the company behind the product doesn't make any official announcement it's a "soft" or "quiet" launch (marketing).

Right. So this press-release article somehow doesn't count?

dirtyferret · Jun 21, 2024

Dr. Dro said:
Oh it will sell just fine. The SN580 did, and so did the SN350.

I'm actually interested in a Green SN3000 - I've a couple of 480 gig SN350s here and for what they cost, they are just fine, and don't need any better for video games.

I agree, people will see and recognize the name. They are not going after the enthusiast market with this product

Double-Click said:
If the company behind the product doesn't make any official announcement it's a "soft" or "quiet" launch (marketing).

lexluthermiester said:
Right. So this press-release article somehow doesn't count?

It looks like a soft launch (you announce the product but it's currently not available for purchase) but I do see it on sale on the WD web page although nowhere else. The WD web page states no delayed ship date so they seem to have it in stock.

Also to create even more confusion, in the WD store on Amazon has a Gen 3 SN500 listing that is still up

Wirko · Jun 21, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
Right. So this press-release article somehow doesn't count?

I understand a "launch" as something explosive, like a rocket launch. This was a catapult launch at best.

TheLostSwede · Jun 21, 2024

dirtyferret said:
It looks like a soft launch (you announce the product but it's currently not available for purchase) but I do see it on sale on the WD web page although nowhere else. The WD web page states no delayed ship date so they seem to have it in stock.

Also to create even more confusion, in the WD store on Amazon has a Gen 3 SN500 listing that is still up

There was a 3-4 week lead time on all drives over 500 GB when I wrote the news post, now all of them appear to be available.

Wirko said:
The 1-2 TB versions seem superior to the SN770, and the QLC 4 TB version absolutely is superior to the SN770, which doesn't exist. All in all, not bad. Let's wait and see what the SN8000 brings to the table.

Looking at the specs, the SN5000 has a smidgen lower random IOPS, but the rest of the performance appear identical. Somewhat worse TBW on the 2 TB drive though.

Double-Click · Jun 21, 2024

lexluthermiester said:
Right. So this press-release article somehow doesn't count?

Think of it more as reporting, the source here was Anandtech, as they were the first post on it (not WD).

Companies typically issue press releases to announce their products, build some hype, and there's lots of marketing fluff injected.
Sometimes the entire release is nothing but fluff and BS (which is where you usually see me or others here putting them on blast).

Wirko said:
I understand a "launch" as something explosive, like a rocket launch. This was a catapult launch at best.

Not even, a quiet launch is more like crop dusting a fart down a hallway.
People will find out about it, but not because you told them so.

GabrielLP14 · Jun 21, 2024

Dr. Dro said:
I wonder if they're going to refresh the WD Green SN350 with an SN3000, perhaps by using BiCS 6 QLC on all capacities instead.

they already have QLC variants of these 2 SSDs

aliceif said:
This is dead on arrival. A bunch of cheaper 4TB NVMe drives using TLC Flash (usually YMTC with a chinese controller) exist.

not to mention waaaaayyy faaster

Wirko · Jun 22, 2024

For some mysterious reason, the 2TB SN770 and SN580 prices dropped to 118€ and 108€ yesterday at Amazon Germany. That's the lowest since January.

micropage7 · Jun 22, 2024

even it labelled budget, in here the price usually much much higher

blueturtle · Jun 23, 2024

Are we ever going to get large 2.5 SDD's! Even at older sata 6, id be just fine with a few 2.5 SSD's, 10TB+ at $500ea , as long as it held up 5 plus years....

TheLostSwede · Jun 23, 2024

blueturtle said:
Are we ever going to get large 2.5 SDD's! Even at older sata 6, id be just fine with a few 2.5 SSD's, 10TB+ at $500ea , as long as it held up 5 plus years....

Most consumer SSD controllers top out at 8 TB.
MaxioTech might have a solution for you though, but if any SSD makers will deliver based on what the controllers support, I don't know.

China-based Maxio creates full line of PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers — capable of up to 14.8 GB/s

A full lineup of PCIe Gen5 SSDs.

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Western Digital Quietly Launches the SN5000 Budget NVMe SSD

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