Today is a grand day as I get to test Western Digital‘s WD Black NVMe SSD (product link). Western Digital has used colours to identify their drives for a long time and black has always been the crown. That is no different now that we’re moving from HDDs into the SSD area. The drive on the test bench is a 1TB version of the M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSD.

This is actually the second version of the WD Black NVMe drive and this time it is a full in-house production. The easiest way to spot the new version is that it now uses a black PCB where the first version had a blue PCB.