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Western Digital (or simply WD), is the world's largest manufacturer of storage solutions, mostly known for their wide range of hard disk offerings. With their acquisition of SanDisk in 2016, WD became one of the largest manufacturers for flash storage, t...
Fastest SSD we ever reviewed, No thermal throttling, Reasonable pricing, Good sequential write performance, 5-year warranty, Compact form factor...
Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality, Expensive compared to some competing drives, SLC cache quite small...
The WD Black NVMe SSD 2018 is currently listed online for $105. Fastest SSD we ever reviewed No thermal throttling Reasonable pricing Good sequential write performance 5-year warranty Compact form factor Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality Ex...
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A new year, a new SSD review! Competition is the butter on the bread of capitalism, supposedly, anyway. Tasteless aphorisms aside, when one thinks of the absolute best NVMe solid-state drives out there, Samsung's 900-Series quickly comes to mind.Four year...
It is readily apparent that this new Western Digital controller is a major player in the NVMe performance market. In 2016, WD spent a cool $19 billion to acquire SanDisk, a major NAND manufacturer that also produced and sold both consumer and enterprise s...
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Earlier in 2018 Western Digital launched their WD Black series NVMe SSDs. We finally have a chance to test one thoroughly. The SSD has SanDisk written all over it, literally, and that is a good thing as this storage unit reaches that 3400 MB/s level in pe...
Western Digital offers a storage solution that will be very satisfactory, at that 3000 MB/sec range. The storage volume size versus performance is a little more tricky to describe as it varies per size, the 250GB model does 1,600 MB/sec writes, the 500 GB...
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Western Digital is a name very well known in the storage world, and have been around for almost 50 years, though almost all of that time was spent selling mechanical storage, over the past 10 years or so, they've been using the color-coded branding, which...
Incredibly fast, Great Warranty, Controller Is made in house...
Pricing...
All in all the WD Black NVMe is quite a strong drive, with its biggest weakness being its smaller file reads, which seems to be due to it taking a bit to jump from idle to max performance, this can be a problem for light workloads, but honestly not incred...
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When talking about Western Digital, I think the first thought is a storage Behemoth that has been around since seemingly the beginning of PC (since 1970 actually, so close enough). I am betting if you asked Western Digital about SSDs or Flash-based storag...
Price, Custom in-house designed hardware, 1TB Capacity, Insanely High Speed, 5 Year Warranty...
Some older systems will need an upgrade to support booting NVMe...
The day of the mechanical HDD has been long touted as coming to an end. With one of the original behemoth in the HDD market Western Digital now adopting flash-based media readily and in massive volume with the amazing performance like we saw today, it loo...
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If, like us, you have been in the world of computer hardware for an extremely long time then you'll have two names flash into your mind when people start speaking of storage. Seagate, and Western Digital. Both of these companies provided high quality, r...
It is amazing how quickly we have got used to the speeds able to be delivered to us by the NVMe technology and its M.2 drives. It barely seems five minutes ago we were having to pick our jaws up off the floor at the latest SSD which brought bandwidth satu...
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The SSD market can seem overwhelming at first glance. Each product claims to be the fastest with advanced technologies that leave the competition in the dust. There's a lot of marketing fluff and artificial numbers thrown around, though ultimately it's a...
Many of the common storage related tasks didn't seem to be overly affected by which drive from this round up they were run on. As anticipated, Optane drives and second-generation NVMe SSDs are the top players in the market offering a considerable performa...
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If you're planning to put a CPU with more than a dozen cores and two screaming-fast SLI video cards in your next gaming rig or workstation, you're off to a good start toward extreme performance. But you should also be thinking about adding a high-performa...
Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty...
Lower capacities offer lesser performance...
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
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Western Digital might bring to mind spinning disks but they have been dabbling in the SSD market for a while now, especially with their pickup of SanDisk. I've ever had the chance to check out their portable SSD. But this past April WD was really hyping u...
If any of you have had any experience with Western Digital hard drives, they don't really go around tossing the black branding on just anything. Even back in the day when they first introduced their own SSDs, they avoided it. It only goes on their fas...
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Western Digital has a long and rich history in the storage market, but for a long time it wasn't a player in the consumer solid-state storage space. The company first started to dabble in SSDs with its acquisition of Siliconsystems almost ten years ago, b...
The WD Black NVMe suffered an asthmatic performance in IOMeter, but its RoboBench performance was phenomenal. Western Digital had its sights set on the 970 EVO, and we expect that the Black's overall performance will fall fairly close to its rival. We di...
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Model: Western Digital WD Black NVMe 1TB Solid State Drive Manufacturer: Western Digital Provided By: Western DigitalAs one of the biggest names in the storage industry, Western Digital doesn't need much of an introduction. Founded in 1970, the company...
Available in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface, Equipped with 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Features nCache 3.0 technology, Small M.2 2280 form factor, Large DRAM cache, R...
Does not support hardware based encryption, Not available in a 2TB capacity...
Western Digital has clearly put a lot of time and effort into their new WD Black NVMe SSD. Instead of using an off the shelf solution from Marvell or Silicon Motion, the company engineered their new SSD platform from the ground up. Everything from the WD...
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Western Digital recently launched a new family of NVMe-based solid state drives targeting gamers and enthusiasts. The simply-branded WD Black NVMe SSD family has a similar naming convention to some previous-generation solid state drives built by the compa...
Strong Writes, Good Endurance, Competitive Pricing, 5 Year Warranty...
Middling Reads, Some Performance Inconsistencies...
WD Black NVMe SSD - Find Them At AmazonThe WD Black NVMe SSD hits a number of high notes. Sequential transfers are strong, especially in terms of writes, and latency and endurance are good. The drives also carry a healthy 5-year warranty. We saw some inco...
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Recently Western Digital released a new high performance PCIe NVMe SSD with the second generation WD Black. Being a “Black” drive it is intended for general, higher-end PC use. The drive come in a M.2 2280 form factor making it ideal for notebooks and ult...
WD has expanded its SSD family with the addition of its Black NVMe SSD and the SanDisk Extreme Pro. This M.2, NVMe drive has quoted speeds up to 3.4GB/s sequential read and up to 2.8GB/s write and comes in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities. The drive is WD...
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Western Digital is bringing 3D NAND to their high-end consumer SSD family with the launch today of two new NVMe SSDs featuring SanDisk's 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. As with the SATA SSDs that first brought 3D NAND to their consumer portfolio, Weste...
We knew from tests last year of Western Digital's SATA drives and the Toshiba XG5 that the SanDisk/Toshiba 64-layer 3D TLC was a huge improvement over their planar NAND, and possibly was even the fastest and most power efficient TLC NAND yet. It is now cl...
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Western Digital's WD Black 3D NVMe SSD delivers much the same performance as the chart-topping Samsung 960 Pro, but for significantly less cash—$200 less in the 1TB capacity.This is a good thing, and a big deal. Samsung has been unchallenged in the end-us...
Top-notch performance, Priced more like a budget NVMe SSD than a premium model, Five-year warranty...
Boring label, Easy to confuse with an older WD Black SSD that was also M.2/NVMe...
The Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSD is as fast as Samsung's 960 Pro, but it costs a lot less. In fact, it's only slightly more expensive than entry-level drives. It's the drive that smart buyers should go for...
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Western Digital is a still is a major player in the storage market, but when it comes to solid state drives WD has not really broken into the gaming and enthusiast market that well. Their current solid state drive offering was late to the game by all acco...
3400 MB/s read, 2800 MB/s write speeds, No overheating issues, Single-sided for better compatibility, Developed completely in-house by WD...
None that we found...
The launch of the WD Black NVMe SSD is in our opinion one of the biggest launches for the company. It is something that Western Digital has really needed and finally brings them into the discussion for high-end NVMe drives. The high-performance NVMe marke...
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But, before we get on with our analysis, we want to clarify something about them. Just like the WD Blue 3D and SanDisk Ultra 3D, these are both the same drives; the only tangible difference is the sticker. WD and SanDisk are both very strong brands in two...
At the beginning of our review, we said we would tell you why you need one of these SSDs. After reading through everything so far, we're pretty sure that we don't need to. The new WD Black and SanDisk Extreme Pro are some of the best SSDs out. They are bu...
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What is the secret to success? In the SSD business, it's vertical integration. That means designing all of the important components so they can work together to deliver the best possible performance and reliability at a low price point. In the past, only...
WD's new in-house NVMe controller is a big win, but cheaper emerging products leave the Black 3D NVMe SSD with poor pricing at launch. It's like seeing an iceberg on the horizon. Hopefully WD can maneuver the ship in time.Review$449.99 MSRP...
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After some months of waiting, they finally released their first SSD, the WD Blue SSD. Similarly designed to that of a current generation SanDisk SSD, the WD Blue proved to be a good first go. For many enthusiasts, on the other hand, other SSD manufacture...
Overall, it outperforms the Intel 600P, but not by much. With the WD Black PCIe at its current prices of $109.99 (256GB) and $199.99 (512GB), the Intel may be a better buy for someone looking to get the cheapest NVMe SSD they can get their hands on or if...
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After acquiring SanDisk and introducing WD Green and WD Blue SSDs, it is no surprise to see Western Digital introduce a WD Black SSD that is a M.2 PCIe drive. In keeping with SanDisk's recent trends for mainstream consumer SSDs, the WD Black uses a Marve...
There are still relatively few PCIe SSDs using TLC NAND, and the WD Black is the only one using planar TLC NAND. SanDisk has lately made some of the best planar TLC NAND SSDs with highly effective SLC caching that somewhat insulates them from many of the...
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Last month we told you that WD was announcing the WD Black PCIe Solid State Drive (SSD) series that just happens to be the very first WD-branded client PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe-based SSDs. WD recognizes that enthusiasts and the high-end computing market have mov...
The WD Black PCIe SSD series was designed to be an affordable SSD that unlocks a new level of performance for PC users that have PCIe NVMe compatible systems. The performance numbers we were seeing from this SSD would place it in the entry-level NVMe SSD...
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It is not often that we review two separate SSDs within the same report, however this is a rather unique opportunity. Back in 2016, Western Digital acquired SanDisk in one of the largest flash memory purchases ever; a very rare occasion for a company to a...
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