WD's Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD is an entry-level SSD that impresses with sustained transfers at 450MBps, despite using TLC NAND. It's one of the fastest TLC drives you can buy and offers easily the ...

The 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND is $90 today, which is about $17 cheaper than what it’s been in recent weeks and $30 off its listing price. It’s the cheapest this drive has ever sold for.

WD recently updated its mainstream Blue line of solid state drives with new 64-layer 3D BiCS NAND flash memory. When we first took a look at the original WD Blue SSD, we found it to be an ...

We can’t say the WD Blue and SanDisk Ultra with 3D NAND technology are must-have drives. They compete directly with similar drives like the Crucial MX300 series and Mushkin Enhanced Reactor series.

This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD's TLC 3D NAND alongside the ...

The WD Blue is a complete in-house design which utilises their own controller and 3D NAND. There’s no DRAM found on this drive which is another cost-saving factor. SSDs draw less power than HDDs ...

The WD Blue SSD doesn't do well on the pricing front either, with a suggested price of $300, $140 and $80 for 1TB, 500GB and 250GB, respectively. (UK and Australian pricing aren't available at ...

Building on its successful 3D NAND product lineup, WD has recently released its long-awaited NAS SSD into the Red family of drives. Today, we have the 2TB capacity in house.

The WD Blue SN500 performs at or above the top end estimated read/write speeds, performing, again, nearly three times better than the SATA-based SSD. As you look at the chart, remember that niché ...

WD has a pair of new solid state drives hitting the market, featuring 64-layer 3D NAND, the WD Blue And SanDisk Ultra 3D SSDs. We go in-depth in this - Page 7 ...