WD Blue 1TB SSD Review

By Nathan Kirsch

AS SSD Benchmark

AS-SSD (1.9.5986.35387) Benchmark:

We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for over some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and we’ll show the results from all three of them.

WD Blue 1TB SSD ASSSD Benchmark

Benchmark Results: AS SSD showed the WD Blue 1TB drive had an overall score of 1,117 points with sequential read speeds of 520MB/s and 460MB/s write.

WD Blue 1TB SSD ASSSD Benchmark

Benchmark Results: The copy benchmark test results showed okay performance SATA TLC NAND based SSD aimed at the mainstream market with speeds ranging from 347 MB/s to 469 MB/s.

WD Blue 1TB SSD ASSSD Benchmark

Benchmark Results: For this benchmark chart you would ideally want to see a straight line as you don’t want any compression performance loss as the test goes from 0% compressible to 100% compressible data during the benchmark test period. The WD Blue 1TB SSD had a number of performance dips on both read and write operations.