Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive

A good effort from the HD maker ; Decent all-round throughput

WD has prioritised reliability ; Overpriced given the performance

Very impressive read speeds ; Nice gunmetal casing ; Quality built ; 3-year warranty

Write speeds were a concern

I’m sure you and almost everyone you know has a favorite hard drive manufacturer and when they are building a new system they will ONLY use those types of drives.  Honestly I am more or less the same way.  As I said in the introduction of this...

Western Digital’s first consumer SSD performed well in our testing. Not only did it perform well but I also found the silver drive casing to be the best looking that we have currently tested. When putting together the Cost Pre GB chart I was surprised...

Anche in questo caso i risultati sono ottimi per quanto riguarda i valori in lettura, anche confrontati con altri Brand, e l'occupazione del disco non sembra mettere in crisi le doti del WD, mentre in scrittura il disco soffre un pò troppo rispetto ai...

Buone prestazioni; consumi e temperature contenute

Elevato costo per Gbyte; capacità limitata per alcuni ambiti professionali; velocità in scrittura sotto la media

Abbiamo provato il modello Silicon Edge Blue con capacità da 128 GByte, che rappresenta la taglia intermedia come capacità offerte: le altre due sono il modello da 64 GByte e quello da 256 GByte, tutti racchiusi in uno chassis in alluminio. Ancora...

Great speed

Died after 2 years

It's discontinued

Slooooooooow

Price- got it from a Shellshocker Deal. Despite not being the fastest SSD on the market I was thrilled to finally replace my slower 7200rpm sata

Like the last poster, mine failed with a BSOD and then an ecc error. Unrecognizable after that. What was really annoying was Western Digital's RMA not allowing SSD's to be done as an advance shipment. I had to buy another drive while I wait for them to...