Review on WD_Black AN1500 Internal Gaming Card by Paul Newton

This drive meets its performance specifications and is very fast under heavy loads and/or when transferring large files. For simple things like downloads and single-threaded tasks, the Samsung 970 EVO plus is still slightly faster. However, if you have high queue depth, this drive will outperform almost everything else, including most PCIe Gen 4 NVME SSDs. Note that this drive requires 8 PCIe Gen 3 lanes for full speed. This can affect the performance of high-end graphics cards on motherboards with limited PCIe lane availability. Plus it looks cool :-)