WD Black SN770M powered by SANDISK

PCIe 5.0 has become widely accepted, and the modern, energy-saving controllers have made the cooling towers of days gone by obsolete. The SSDs with the new E28 controller - Corsair MP700 Pro XT and PNY CS3250 - are in the top group, but they cannot displace the competition with the SM2508 controller from Silicon Motion...

PCIe 4.0 is fully developed, there are long-lasting models such as the Crucial E100 and fast ones such as the Corsair MP600 Mini R2 or the Teamgroup G70 Pro Aluminium. These are perfectly adequate for everyday tasks, and even faster SSDs do not offer any advantage in games consoles...

The WD_Black SN770M only has the format in common with the four identical SSDs from this test. The controller and flash memory come from Western Digital. The memory is particularly noteworthy: While the other 2230s work with rather slow QLC, Western Digital manages to integrate faster TLC flash here...