On December 23, 2024, in Shanghai, Western Digital Corporation announced the launch of several new flash storage solutions, aiming to help professionals and consumers prepare for the upcoming holidays. Whether as a satisfactory gift or for preparing new projects, the innovative product portfolio launched by Western Digital’s award-winning SanDisk and WD_BLACK brands is designed to fully meet the diverse needs of data storage with excellent performance, reliability, and capacity.
The SanDisk brand further enriches its mobile solid-state drive series with two new products featuring next-generation SSD speed and excellent durability, designed for professionals, content creators, and users who need to store massive amounts of data in harsh environments.
This product has a read speed of up to 1,050MB/s and a write speed of up to 1,000MB/s. The suggested retail price of this product is 4,999 yuan. It can now be purchased through the SanDisk JD self-operated flagship store, as well as the e-commerce platform stores designated by Western Digital, authorized agents, distributors and retailers.
The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD Enhanced Edition features a dual upgrade in performance and capacity, significantly enhancing the gaming experience. The WD_BLACK brand designed specifically for gaming now launches two new products, aiming to help players exert their peak strength with excellent performance and large capacity: WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD – The WD_BLACK brand known for ultra-fast transmission now launches a new high-performance PCIe Gen 4×4 DRAMless NVMe SSD, aiming to help mainstream gamers fully enjoy today’s high-definition, immersive gaming experience without worrying about the continuous growth of game file sizes. Adopting Western Digital’s new generation TLC 3D NAND technology, this new product can provide a sequential read speed of up to 7,250MB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 6,900MB/s (1-2TB capacity version). Compared with the previous generation 4 products, the performance has been improved by about 35%. For mainstream gamers who are constantly pursuing greater capacity, the WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD can provide massive storage space, not only can easily accommodate the existing game library, but also can reserve sufficient remaining space for new games, subsequent updates and downloadable content. This high-performance NVMe SSD is optimized for laptops and handheld gaming PCs. When fully loaded, it has about 100% improved energy efficiency compared to the previous generation 4 products. In addition, it has a durability of up to 1,200TBW3 (2TB capacity version), suitable for gamers who live stream games, record speedrun games and create content using a new generation of game engines and frequently write and delete a large amount of data on the SSD. The WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD is currently available in three capacity versions: 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. It is expected to be available for retail on the JD e-commerce platform stores designated by Western Digital on December 24. The suggested retail price is 519 yuan (500GB), 619 yuan (1TB) and 1119 yuan (2TB). The 4TB1 capacity version is expected to be launched next year. WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe SSD2TB1 WD_BLACK C50 Expansion Card Xbox Licensed Edition – As more and more game file sizes exceed 100GB, the WD_BLACK C50 storage expansion card Xbox licensed edition with a capacity upgrade to 2TB1 emerges to provide players with sufficient storage space.The WD_BLACK C50’s NVMe SSD core achieves exceptional transfer speeds, combining with Xbox features such as Xbox Velocity Architecture and Quick Resume to provide gamers with a smooth gaming experience. This expansion card is an efficient storage solution that offers massive capacity expansion for Xbox SeriesX|S, allowing the installation of more games. Gamers can simply insert this officially licensed expansion card directly into the game console to achieve performance consistent with the Xbox’s built-in storage. The suggested retail price for the 2TB WD_BLACK C50 expansion card Xbox authorized edition is 1,999 RMB and is now officially available in authorized e-commerce stores.
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