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Western Digital Black AN1500 2 TB PCIe NVME - 77% discount in certain parts of EU

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Not sure if this is a typo or something, but 436€ PCIe 8x NVME costs 100€ in countries like Germany, Austria and Italy:

 

https://at.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

https://it.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

On Sandisk website:

https://shop.sandisk.com/de-de/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-black-an1500-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T1X0L-00AUJ0

 

 

Western Digital Black AN1500 2 TB PCIe NVME sounds like a solid mid-range+ NVME choice for 100€ at 2TB size, 2TB is the only size available.

 

The performance of this NVME is actually better in some non-gaming workstation applications that require very fast writes for extended periods of time.

 

Only downside is the interface, the efficiency isn't that great and it uses 8 PCIe lanes, unlike regular NVMEs that only use 4.

 

Does come with 5 year warranty apparently.

 

Techpowerup specs:

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb.d604

 

 

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24 minutes ago, podkall said:

Not sure if this is a typo or something, but 436€ PCIe 8x NVME costs 100€ in countries like Germany, Austria and Italy:

 

https://at.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

https://it.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

On Sandisk website:

https://shop.sandisk.com/de-de/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-black-an1500-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T1X0L-00AUJ0

 

 

Western Digital Black AN1500 2 TB PCIe NVME sounds like a solid mid-range+ NVME choice for 100€ at 2TB size, 2TB is the only size available.

 

The performance of this NVME is actually better in some non-gaming workstation applications that require very fast writes for extended periods of time.

 

Only downside is the interface, the efficiency isn't that great and it uses 8 PCIe lanes, unlike regular NVMEs that only use 4.

 

Does come with 5 year warranty apparently.

 

Techpowerup specs:

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb.d604

 

 

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https://shop.sandisk.com/nl-nl/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-black-an1500-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T1X0L-00AUJ0

 

Every single one site has it

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Would be ideal for 3.0 gen systems with spare lanes, such as X299, or even X99.

 

Not available in UK that I can find. Given their age, I wonder if they have a bunch in a EU warehouse somewhere and just want to clear them out.

 

Edit: looking at the pics at TechPowerUp it's two SN730 drives inside behind some PCIe switch of some sort I guess. If you did have X299 you could just get separate drives and bifurcate for same effect, so maybe a bit less interesting after all.

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35 minutes ago, jaslion said:

https://shop.sandisk.com/nl-nl/products/ssd/internal-ssd/wd-black-an1500-nvme-ssd?sku=WDS200T1X0L-00AUJ0

 

Every single one site has it

nope:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

And some are empty, like Sweden:

https://se.pcpartpicker.com/product/j9VG3C/western-digital-black-an1500-2-tb-pcie-nvme-solid-state-drive-wds200t1x0l

 

4 minutes ago, porina said:

Would be ideal for 3.0 gen systems with spare lanes, such as X299, or even X99.

 

Not available in UK that I can find. Given their age, I wonder if they have a bunch in a EU warehouse somewhere and just want to clear them out.

Not necessarily, modern systems aren't trash:

 

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2 minutes ago, podkall said:

Not necessarily, modern systems aren't trash:

I haven't looked for one, but I don't believe there are any consumer boards with x8 electrical slots off chipset. So the only way you could get x8 is off CPU, basically taking half from the GPU for those mobos that still offer that possibility.

 

If you're going to run x4, you might as well get a more modern SSD.

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10 minutes ago, porina said:

I haven't looked for one, but I don't believe there are any consumer boards with x8 electrical slots off chipset. So the only way you could get x8 is off CPU, basically taking half from the GPU for those mobos that still offer that possibility.

 

If you're going to run x4, you might as well get a more modern SSD.

What if all 3 M.2 slots are filled?

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22 minutes ago, podkall said:

What if all 3 M.2 slots are filled?

I'm not trying to solve every possible edge case out there. I'm mainly saying, if you don't have a spare x8 slot, which MOST people wont, then a conventional x4 may be a better choice. Even in the scenario you paint, if a mobo has 3 M.2 and they're all in use, then if you have a space PCIe slot, you can put something in there. It doesn't have to be the AN1500 though. Adapters like below are widely available and cheap. Use any M.2 you like. Maybe the AN1500 has some cost and/or performance benefit even if not on x8, again up to a potential buyer to decide.

 

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25 minutes ago, porina said:

Maybe the AN1500 has some cost and/or performance benefit even if not on x8, again up to a potential buyer to decide.

Gigabytes/s of write speed, that doesn't throttle after 50-100GB+

 

Almost perfect workstation SSD.

 

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On 4/17/2025 at 8:59 PM, podkall said:

Gigabytes/s of write speed, that doesn't throttle after 50-100GB+

 

Almost perfect workstation SSD.

 

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Can confirm these things are great got 3! New scratch disk 😛

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18 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Can confirm these things are great got 3! New scratch disk 😛

Do you really? They basically never slow down do they?

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1 hour ago, podkall said:

Do you really? They basically never slow down do they?

Yes yes I have! One for me one for lil brothers 5820k system and one for a friends!

 

So far just made it render a scene in blender where the 12gb 3060 was struggling and just let it use the disk away! Honestly no diff yet compared to the nm790 I have cept its stable stable instewd of minor variations

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