The Blue 3D SSD is the first TLC NAND drive whose sustained write performance nearly matches that of MLC NAND drives. Along with its Sandisk 3D Extreme sibling, by far the best bang for your buck in a ...

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 company's ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data infrastructure leader, is accelerating the NVMe transition of value-PC storage by adding an NVMe™ model to its ...

With more content creators moving to 4K video creation, hard drive speed definitely helps accelerate the process. While SSDs have been popular for years now, NVMe SSDs are slowly gaining popularity.

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Western Digital is the king of the hard drive market but up to now has been a non-factor in SSDs. However, with its purchase of solid state storage giant, SanDisk, the company immediately leaped to ...

Super-fast NVMe storage at one of the lowest prices we've seen yet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This deal is no longer ...

Western Digital is a company with a rich history in developing hard disk technologies that have become widely adopted since the era of floppy disk formatters/controllers and the ATA interface. After ...

WD set itself a pretty high bar with its original entry level NVMe SSD, as we considered the 500GB WD Blue SN500 the first horseman to SATA's eventual apocalypse. But with the SATA connection already ...

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WD's wait-and-see approach to solid-state storage has been fascinating to observe. Having surveyed the changing landscape of computer storage requirements, the firm decided in 2015 to make its move by ...

A name you know from a brand you trust. The new WD Blue SN500 NVMe is a low-cost mainstream SSD with a strong warrnty and SATA killing performance. We already declared the end of SATA SSDs for ...