Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review: A PS5 SSD you recognize at a price you don’t
The Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P is a WD Black SN850P by another name. It’s a great PS5 SSD with good performance in a mature package, but with a stiff premium.
The Sandisk Optimus GX Pro 850P 2TB SSD review highlights that this is a high-end Gen 4 SSD from Sandisk, similar to the WD Black SN850X in design. This drive features DRAM, TLC flash, and delivers good performance for any role. Like its WD Black counterpart, the Optimus GX Pro 850P comes in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities, priced at $309.99, $609.99, $1,139.99, and $2,249.99 respectively.
The drive boasts impressive sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,300 MB/s and 6,300 MB/s, respectively. It also supports random read and write speeds of 800K and 1,100K IOPS. The 850P drive is equipped with Sandisk's proprietary controller and DDR4 DRAM, offering performance at the top for a Gen 4 drive.
The SSD comes with a 5-year warranty, providing a total of 600TB of writes per TB of capacity. The drive also supports data-at-rest encryption through TCG Opal v2.01, a feature not explicitly mentioned for the SN850P. The drive's heatsink is effective and could fit well in a desktop PC, but theoretically, it could work in a laptop as well. Sandisk provides downloadable software, including the Sandisk Dashboard and Acronis True Image for backup and imaging.
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