Black2 Apr 2026

: Delivers respectable read speeds peaking around 425–461 MB/s , though write speeds are significantly lower, often staying below 140 MB/s .

The was a unique engineering feat designed to give laptop users both the speed of an SSD and the capacity of an HDD in a single 2.5-inch bay. black2

: Requires a specific Windows-only driver for the system to "see" the HDD partition; without it, only the SSD shows up. : Delivers respectable read speeds peaking around 425–461

Created by artist Stuart Semple, was marketed as the "world's mattest, flattest black" available to all artists (unlike Vantablack). though write speeds are significantly lower