A truly enthusiast-class drive from the storage giant. WD has been trying to crack the premium SSD market for some time. Spurred on by the acquisition of SanDisk, paving the way for in-house NAND production, and concurrent investment for controller technology, the storage giant is finally ready to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Samsung and Intel across the product stack.

Appealing to the enthusiast and workstation user in one fell swoop, WD's Black NVMe SSDs are now out in the wild. Hold on, you might say, as the WD Black is a known quantity, but as always, the devil is in the details.