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Five months after completing its acquisition of SanDisk, Western Digital is introducing SSDs under the WD brand for the consumer market. The WD Blue is the mainstream SATA offering and is derived from the SanDisk X400. While not exactly the first Western...
When it was first announced at the beginning of this year, the SanDisk X400 was a good value. It raised the bar for planar TLC performance and carried a reasonable mid-range price. The X400 offered OEMs a TCG Opal-compliant self encrypting drive option an...
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After the company bought Siliconsystems Inc. in mid-2009, it indicated an interest in expanding its traditional disk drive industry into the solid-state storage market, giving it the means to form the WD Solid-State Storage Business.In May 2013, the compa...
The WD Blue 1TB is available at Newegg for the manufacturer suggested price of $299.99, which seems a bit high for a launch price when competitor products such as the OCZ Trion 150 960GB can now be purchased for $226. But it seems the company is targeting...
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Because SSDs are taking ground in storage sales and, inversely, HDD sales falling quarter after quarter in recent years, WD had to do something more than just infuse NAND with their HDD components to maintain their competitiveness. In late 2015 we learned...
The WD Blue is the first full-fledged SSD produced by WD. Since the acquisition of SanDisk, it was only time till an SSD product was released under their brand. Overall, it is a good performer and one of the best performing planar TLC based options out. I...
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The WD Blue SSD is WD first branded SATA SSD released today. WD acquired SanDisk last year for $19 Billion, but has not released any WD branded SSDs until now. The WD Blue is a SATA SSD that comes in two form factors (2.5” or M.2) and three capacities: 25...
Strong 2MB sequential read, Known quantity based off of SanDisk X400 with some tweaks...
Poor performance in mixed workloads, Priced higher than similar performance drives, Short 3-year warranty compared to other drives...
The WD Blue is the first branded WD SSD, with multiple form factors and capacities, but underwhelming performance and warranty...
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UPDATE 10/11/2016 8:40 AM PST - WD provided us with an incorrect MSRP prior to the launch date. Products under NDA are not listed at retailers, therefore we could not verify the information given to us. We corrected the article and altered the conclusion...
Excellent mainstream performance, Software suite included...
High price, Aging software toolbox...
The Western Digital Blue shows us that old storage companies have a hard time evolving from their old ways. The Blue 1TB SSD delivers increased performance over many mainstream SSDs, but it still doesn't match every virtue of the 850 EVO. Priced at $2...
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WD is taking another stab at the Solid-State Drive market after purchasing SanDisk earlier this year by releasing the WD Green and WD Blue SSD series. The WD Green SATA consumer SSD is aimed at the entry-level market whereas the the WD Blue SATA Consumer...
The WD Blue 1TB SSD is the flagship drive of the WD Blue series and is yet another planar TLC NAND powered drive aimed at the mainstream market. At the very highest level, this is basically the SanDisk X400 drive that came out earlier this year with re-t...
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In the world of solid-state drives (SSDs), where the performance floor is inherently fast, the amount of storage you get for the price becomes all the more important. Competitive pricing goes a long way, as Western Digital is demonstrating off the heels o...
Competitive pricing, Solid performance...
1TB storage maximum, Drive migration software is not included...
The WD Blue SSD neatly occupies the area between budget and high-performance storage, offering a fast, but cost-effective internal solid-state drive...
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For decades, Western Digital has been recognized as one of the very few leaders in the world of storage and hard drives. If you open up that pre-built computer you bought, there's a good chance that on the inside you'll find a Western Digital-branded driv...
The WD Blue SSD is a solid (no pun intended) drive for the money. Blue is an appropriate color here, as it reminds me of a blue-collar worker. It does its work and gets the job done without fuss. Hard drives and SSDs aren't particularly exciting, but you...
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Thanks to Western Digital, we'll be taking a quick look at their WD BLUE 1TB 3D NAND SSD (2.5″ form factor). The 1TB model we'll be reviewing uses the latest 3D NAND technology and boasts a read speed of up to 560MB/sec with a write speed of up to 530MB/s...
1TB capacity, 3D NAND Technology, Very good performance, Fast Marvell 88SS1074 controller...
Expensive – Due to volatile memory prices, Final Thoughts, The Western Digital BLUE 1TB 3D NAND SSD is a must have, for anyone who wants a large and fast storage device, that can also be used as a boot drive. For the extreme content creators… you now have...
The Western Digital BLUE 1TB 3D NAND SSD is a must have, for anyone who wants a large and fast storage device, that can also be used as a boot drive. For the extreme content creators… you now have the option to use a high capacity, super-fast and insane s...
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We tested the 1,000 GiB WD Blue SSD from Western Digital. Let's seek how does it perform.After acquiring SanDisk last year, Western Digital (WD) launched the WD Blue SSD family, which is a mainstream line, and the WD Green, which are aimed to low cost and...
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As one of the few remaining giants of the hard drive space (alongside Seagate and Toshiba), Western Digital (WD) ships plenty of drives, both in pre-built laptops and desktops, and as bare drives for everything from servers to DIY system builds. But every...
Performance hovers (mostly) between lower-cost budget drives and pricier Samsung SSD 850 EVO, Competitive pricing at launch...
Lagging sequential-write performance, Capacity tops out at 1TB, No bundled drive-cloning/migration software...
WD's first SSD since its acquisition of SanDisk nicely threads the performance-and-price needle. This is a solid first showing that should satisfy most consumers who aren't obsessed with benchmarks and maximum possible speed...
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