Western Digital releases WD Blue SSD NVMe

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Western Digital Corp., a global data infrastructure leader, is accelerating the NVMe transition of value-PC storage by adding an NVMe model to its award-winning WD Blue solid state drive (SSD) portfol...

    Western Digital releases WD Blue SSD NVMe
     
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    Darkiee Master Guru

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    Error

    This story does not exist. :(

    Edit, there we go.

    Edits edit. Is this something on my end? I got the news open once, but after trying to open it again from the link, just says, Error, This storry does not exist.
     
  3. fantaskarsef

    fantaskarsef Ancient Guru

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    That's some competitive pricing I guess.
     
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    Story doesn't exist for me either
     

  5. chinobino

    chinobino Maha Guru

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    That is quite reasonable price to performance - I wonder what the wear level is like.
     
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    $54.99 USD for 250GB
    $77.99 USD for 500GB

    Now, I am interested in seeing 1~2TB models...
    $124 for 1TB model?
    $216 for 2TB model?
     
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    Yeah, this basically.

    I got my 500GB 850 Evo for a good price but in this day and age it fits like... Windows, general apps and maybe 5-6 games.

    I'm fine with a SATA SSD, especially given the price disparity with M.2 drives, but for my next build it'll be a minimum 2TB SSD for sure.
     
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    heffeque Ancient Guru

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  9. MegaFalloutFan

    MegaFalloutFan Maha Guru

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    If you want 2TB, Intel 660p is 229USD and 115$ for 1Tb, faster then this 1800by1800MB/s and 220Kby220K IOPS PCIe x4
     
  10. TheDeeGee

    TheDeeGee Ancient Guru

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    People still worry about that?

    My dads office PC still uses my Late 2009 OCZ Vertex (Indilinx) 120GB, last time i checked it had 88% Health.
     

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    SLC => MLC => TLS => QLC
    That's how technology changed over time to enable larger capacities and how fewer write cycles before fail came to be.
     
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    TheDeeGee Ancient Guru

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    So things were better in the old days after all eh?
     
  13. Fox2232

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    More durable. Now we have larger capacities and better pricing.
    If you take 128GB drive built on each technology SLC will last much, much longer than QLC.
    But larger capacities compensate for this partially in terms of total number of writes.
     

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