BOOTABLE PLUG AND PLAY
WITH INSANELY FAST SPEEDS
AN NVMe
™
SSD ADDINCARD
Experience lightning fast gameplay with
this bootable, plug and play add-in-card
that reaches extreme velocity with minimum
effort. Includes customizable RGB lighting
(Windows
®
only) and heatsink.
GAMING SSD STORAGE
WD_BLACK
™
/ DRIVE YOUR GAME
■ PCIe
®
Gen3 technology to provide
access to insane read/write speeds
up to 6500/4100MB/s
**
■ Up to 4TB
*
capacity to store
your games
■ Bootable and easy-to-install RAID0
solution using PCIe
®
slot
■ Downloadable WD_BLACK
™
Dashboard
software to customize and control
your gaming experience
■ Customizable RGB lighting with 13 LED
pattern effects programmable with our
WD_BLACK
™
Dashboard, or seamlessly
integrate with most motherboards from
major brands (Windows
®
only)
■ Engineered to minimize thermal throttling
with integrated heatsink technology
REACH EXTREME VELOCITY
Get in the game faster with PCIe
®
Gen3 technology, reaching up to
6500MB/s read speed and up to 4100MB/s write speed to minimize
load times.
**
MORE CAPACITY FOR YOUR GAMES
Keep numerous games and your rig running smooth with the
WD_BLACK
™
AN1500 NVMe
™
SSD Add-in-Card, allowing you to save
up to 4TB
*
of data.
PLUG AND OUTPLAY
This plug and play, bootable add-in-card simply connects into your
PCIe
®
expansion slot, requiring no external power or cables. Primed
with an enterprise grade RAID controller to run your entire operating
system while you game.
LIGHT UP YOUR STATION WITH RGB
Enhance your gaming station with fully customizable RGB lighting
controlled through the downloadable WD_BLACK
™
Dashboard
(Windows
®
only), designed to match your style with various colors
and 13 different LED pattern effects to choose from.
THROTTLE THE ENEMY. NOT YOUR RIG.
Help keep your rig running at top speeds with the WD_BLACK
™
AN1500
NVMe
™
SSD Add-in-Card, featuring a fanless and silent heatsink to
sustain performance and help keep you from throttling down.
OPTIMIZED WITH THE WD_BLACK
™
DASHBOARD
Take total control with the downloadable WD_BLACK
™
Dashboard,
allowing you to monitor the health of your drive, and optimize
performance using gaming mode.
PRODUCT FEATURES
AN1500 NVMe
™
SSD AIC
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
*As used for storage capacity 1TB = one trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.
**Based on read speed and internal testing. As used for transfer rate, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second.
Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.
1
Operational temperature is measured by an on board temperature sensor. Non-operational storage temperature does not guarantee
data retention.
09/20
CAPACITIES AND MODELS
4TB: WDS400T1X0L-00AUJ0
2TB: WDS200T1X0L-00AUJ0
1TB: WDS100T1X0L-00AUJ0
CONTENTS
■ WD_BLACK™ AN1500 NVMe™
SSD Add-in-Card
INTERFACE
PCIe
®
Gen3 x8
SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY
■ Backward compatible with
PCIe Gen3 x2, PCIe Gen3 x1,
PCIe Gen2 x4, PCIe Gen2 x2,
and PCIe Gen2 x1
■ Windows
®
8.1, 10
LIMITED WARRANTY
5 Years
DIMENSIONS
LENGTH: 176 mm (6.93 in)
WIDTH: 72 mm (2.83 in)
HEIGHT: 13 mm (0.51 in)
WEIGHT: 0.21 kg (0.47 lb)
OPERATING SPECIFICATIONS
OPERATING TEMPERATURE
1
:
5°C to 35°C
NON-OPERATING TEMPERATURE
1
:
-20°C to 65°C