WD_Black SN770M 2TB SSD Review

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used –

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

In 3DMark's Storage Benchmark Game Loading test, the Black SN770M averaged 746.8MB/s for the three game loading tests with an average time of 73 µs.

In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 934.85MB/s with an average access time of 50.5µs for the four tests.

The average bandwidth figure for the drive was 572.32MB/s, a score that sees the WD_Black SN770M in the bottom half of the table.

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