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Western Digital has long been the gold standard for hard disk drives. Ask any PC enthusiasts what hard disk to buy, and they're almost certainly going to point you towards a WD Green or Blue. This reputation is not due to the company's cutting-edge hardwa...
Solid performance, Rated to endure plenty of use, Good warranty...
Doesn't outrun its competitors, No outstanding features...
The solid state market is very competitive right now, which has led to a plethora of choice. Western Digital's first mid-range SSD is competent, but it also doesn't stand out from the pack.We think the WD Blue's price needs to dip lower before it's the ob...
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Western Digital (WD) is well-known in the storage industry for its reliable range of hard disk drives (HDD). On 11 October 2016, SanDisk (now a WD company) released the WD Blue and Green line of SSDs to the market. In this review we look at the WD Blue 1T...
The WD Blue SSD 1TB offers consistent speeds, but comes in at a a hefty £295 price tag. The drive is overshadowed by its competitors, but nevertheless provides PC builders with more SSD alternatives...
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A mere six months ago Western Digital made the bold move of purchasing SanDisk, one of the most recognized companies in the solid state storage market. Much like Toshiba’s purchase of OCZ, this was done in an effort to reinvigorate their own solid state d...
The SSD market just got a lot more interesting but at the same time it may have lost one of its periphery players in SanDisk. On one hand this review is tinged with a bit of sadness since we’ve reviewed plenty of SanDisk drives and for the most part they...
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pcauthority.com.au Updated: 2017-02-10 03:15:09
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Western Digital lagged behind other hard drive manufacturers in recent years when it came to the SSD market, but with the acquisition of Sandisk earlier this year it's obvious the company is pushing full steam ahead to catch up. Sandisk was the second lar...
". the excellent IOPS performance of the WD Blue SSD is on par with other drives in this price range. "...
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I'd like to introduce you to the WD Blue SSD. It has quite an interesting and inevitable fate. I think at this day and age, we all have heard about WD. They're the major leader in storage media, of course. To be honest, I've speculated that one day, WD wi...
The WD Blue SSD is a decent SSD in today's standard, and it packs quite a nice punch into SSD market too with its price/gigabyte ratio of ~RM1.27/GB. Considering that WD is backing you up with a 3-year limited warranty and one complimentary year of Kroll...
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WD Blue SSD 1TB Review – Western Digital (WD) is well-known for their storage solutions including the traditional hard disk drives. The one resides in my computer at the moment, the WD Black 7200RPM, has a humongous 6TB of space and I can never seem to fi...
WD Blue SSD 1TB Review – Western Digital (WD) is well-known for their storage solutions including the traditional hard disk drives. The one resides in my computer at the moment, the WD Black 7200RPM, has a humongous 6TB of space and I can never seem to fi...
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The price of storage has gown down so much over the past few years. This is reflected with the WD Blue. After averaging the price, it is only about RM 1 per gigabyte of storage – yes, this SSD is a one terabyte (1TB) model, so you can dump everything into...
Review] Western Digital Blue SSD 1TB: SSD for everyoneFast for most jobsWill you need something super-fast for daily computing needs? Not really. The WD Blue SSD proves that even a mass-market SSD can do wonders for any computer. Our test bench felt fast...
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The first WD Blue SSD to see the light of day didn't really cause that many ripples in the market. Now we have the second generation WD Blue SSD and it's a totally different animal. This time people will take notice not least because it uses leading edge...
64-layer BiCS 3D NAND, Overall performance...
3-year warranty is a little mean, Kitguru says: After the ho hum reaction to the original WD Blue and Green SSD's and the disapointment of the WD Black PCIe drives performance, WD now have a drive that may well cause some major waves in the market with go...
The original WD Blue SSD drive it would be fair to say, didn't cause much of a stir apart from the acknowledgement that WD had entered the highly competitive SSD market. However the new WD Blue SSD on the block, the Blue 3D NAND, will really stir things u...
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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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What is your data worth? All those files, pictures, music, videos all must be stored somewhere safe and reliable. Most of us regular Joes opt for a pen drive or maybe one of the many cloud services that are available. However, what if you are running a co...
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S or SATA M Western Digital on the Blue SSD:A WD Blue D NAND SATA SSD uses D NAND technology not only for higher capacities (up to TB than the previous generation WD Blue SSDs, but also to help reduce cell-to-cell interference for enhanced reliability...
Exemplary results in some benchmarks, Reasonably well priced for 500GB, 3-year warranty, Huge TBW rating, Neutral, - Inconsistent results...
Sequential reads are lacking somewhat...
In terms of reviewing an SSD, nothing speaks more than the benchmarks. They don't need to look particularly pretty or be incredibly lightweight, they merely need to perform.Our results show some unbelievably strong numbers in PCMark 8 and ATTO but random...
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Solid-state storage is standard-issue for storing data in tablets and smartphones, where it's relied upon for its tiny size and rugged nature. Those same virtues can be handy in desktop PCs and especially laptops too, but it's the speed of an SSD (solid-s...
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uk.hardware.info Updated: 2017-12-22 03:46:18
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You can consider yourself very lucky if you bought an SSD last year. Since September 2016 we have been warning you about a possible price increase and nowadays the price of SSDs is at least a quarter more than we were used to. Which SSD should you purchas...
You can consider yourself lucky if you purchased an SSD last year. Since then not a lot has happened when it comes to the performance, while the prices have gone up. However, using a hard drive as boot disk is not necessary at all - there are more than en...
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1TB Drive from WD, you guys do know that WD owns SanDisk right?There's little to no detail on what NAND type used, even on the official product page so we'll just leave it at that.As always I test the drives based on the claims, and the WD Blue SSD is sai...
The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD 1TB retails at RM 1,489.00 – so expensive? Not quite, you see even 256GB SSDs retail at around RM 400 these days so to have around 4 times of space without costing 4 times as much is excellent, after all drives often cost less...
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We've taken a look at the WD Green SSD with that one geared towards the gamers, and general consumers. Now WD decided to let us take a look at its bigger brother, the WD Blue SSD. Ours is the 1TB version, and comes with a 15, 390 retail price for your con...
The WD Blue SSD at 1TB is available now at 15, 390 PHP while the 500GB model retails for about 7, 730 PHP. Both price points are swarming with competition, and it's hard to topple the current kings of that segment with little to no extra value added solut...
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Last month, Western Digital debuted its first SSD storage solutions in two variants, Western Digital Blue and Green SSD, and is available in up to 1TB capacities. Both SSD are available in 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors for PC and notebook upgrades. Pokde...
Good performance, Competitive pricing, 3-year warranty & one year complimentary data recovery service, SLC Cache to improve performance...
Plastic enclosure...
Western Digital's debut in the SSD arena is a respectable drive, with great warranty and free data recovery service for greater peace of mind for people migrating from their reliable spinning media drives...
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