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In our last big roundup we send Seagate home with an award for their Desktop SSHD, a 3.5" SSHD. In the meantime WD has introduced a competitor for that drive, more specifically the Western Digital Blue SSHD 4TB . Time to compare the two! In the beginn...
The price of the Western Digital Blue SSHD is higher than the competitors. Is it worth it? In a direct comparison with the Seagate Desktop SSHD of the same capacity we can see that it does not perform as well in a lot of different tests. The sequential...
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Two new hybrid drives landed on our desk (‘thud'), this week. One, a 4TB 3.5incher, as well as a 2.5inch 1TB model. ‘Blue SSHD' denotes WD's hybrid range, which is an interesting category, as it gives you far higher capacity than you would see at this pri...
". generally snappier performance, as well as better boot times."...
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Hard drives, as far as I'm concerned, are now storage pools. They offer more storage capacity than your average SSD and cost quite a bit less when you look at per-gigabyte prices. They're mostly reliable, so long as they pass the six-month and two-year ma...
Massive amounts of storage space, Caching does help significantly with loading applications...
Expensive, SSD cache isn't as fast or as large as it needs to be...
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There will always be a gap between SSD and HDDs as they service completely different market segments, one that favors performance and the other favors capacity. Prices also dictate the decision-making of consumers and with this, segments between SSDs and...
Good overall performance, Single drive solution, Large capacity...
NAND size could've been 32GB...
In closing, WD offers a compelling option for people who still want a single drive solution for their system and don't see the need to get a SSD+HDD configuration. The WD Blue SSHD is a great upgrade for older systems that need that kick-in responsiveness...
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Whenever you are choosing a hard drive today, there would always be a conundrum. Do you choose the higher speed of the SSD, buy pay more or the slower but cheaper mechanical drive that also has more space?Well because of that the SSHD is born. SSHD, or So...
High performance for a low priceValue: 9/10Features: 7.5/10Performance: 9/10Design: 8/10Usability: 9/10...
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Another week, another HDD. This time, we're going to take a hybrid drive on the roll as WD has been generous enough to lend us a WD Blue WD40E31X SSHD for review.Wait, what's an SSHD? SSHD stands for Solid State Hybrid Drive and is a marriage between the...
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Western Digital has been at the forefront of digital storage medium for some time now, and this time, they have announced a brand new SSHD in the form of the Western Digital Blue SSHD, which promises fast performance, as well as high density storage all i...
Performance, Storage size...
No control over SSD storage...
By pairing SSD-like performance with massive hard drive capacity, WD has created an intelligent hybrid drive that truly offers the best of both worlds.(previously published in issue December 2015)...
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While the price of SSDs continues to drop, the ‘old' hard drive is still the cheapest way to store a lot of data. Especially in a NAS or Mini-ITX system, where there is limited physical space you probably want a drive with as much capacity as possible...
We are starting this conclusion with the 6TB-drives. The Toshiba MD04ACA 6TB and X300 6TB offer good performance in this segment for a relatively low price, but are clearly audible with noise levels that are nearly at 40 dB(A) when idle. Nevertheless th...
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For storage of lots of data, a hard drive is the best option for the time being, especially now that SSD prices are rising rather than falling. Luckily there is still enough innovation in the hard disk field. Time for a new comparative test with no less t...
Despite the fact that there are only three hard disk drive manufacturers left, you have a lot to choose from when you're looking for a new drive. It is not just about prices either. Though SSDs have outperformed hard drives for a long time now, there are...
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PC storage is always a balancing act of price, capacity and speed. Western Digital's Blue 4TB SSHD provides a healthy compromise and is worth a look.Solid State storage is the way of the future and the cost per gigabyte is dropping with every new wave of...
Runs comparatively cool to touch against other drives, Low vibration and very quiet, NAND management/logic is seamless - no tweaking required, Better speeds than the older 7200rpm drives we tested, Suitable for a boot drive for an entry level system, HTPC...
Only 2 capacities available for now, a 2TB offering would be nice...
The WD Blue SSHD 4TB model can be found online as low as AUD$259 and the 1TB version for $129. This seems reasonable for the performance that you get and fits with the upper end of the mainstream components. In comparison, a 4TB WD green drive retails for...
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Combining a 8GB Solid State Drive with a 4TB platter drive, the Western Digital 4TB SSHD is a hybrid drive designed to give tons of storage space and that little extra go power of an 8TB SSD. The drives electronics decide what programs and files you use m...
Price, Ease Of Installation, Balance Of Speed & Storage Space, Top Of The Charts Performance, Intelligent Independent SSHD Algorithms, 3 Year Warranty...
Larger SSD Portion Would Be Nice...
We like the Western Digital 4TB SSHD for its speed and innovation as well as its massive storage space. Like most we aren't going to go out and grab four 1TB SSD's any time soon. Now we can see springing $100 bucks for a fast SSD and stacking the West...
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WD phased out its Green series drives. But at the same time, WD Blue series now has a desktop SSHD drive lineup. This is the WD4031X Blue drive with 4TB drive storage capacity. This drive uses 8GB MLC NAND and a 64MB Cache.As per WD, this drive uses a set...
Hybrid Drive, Cost Effective, ThreeYear Warranty, Good enough large file transfer speedcompressed and noncompressed, Suitable for those who want a bit better response time with larger storage...
8GB NAND isn't something large in this day of age...
This drive isn't just going to be something that gamers will be interested, it's also those who gene...
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