WD Blue 1TB SSD Review

By Nathan Kirsch

PCMark 8 Storage Test

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PCMark 8 might have come out in 2013, but it is still Futuremark’s most recent version of their industry standard PC benchmarking tool. PCMark 8 allows you to test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. PCMark 8 is recognized by many as being the complete PC benchmark for home and business. We ran the Storage 2.0 benchmark test suite on PCMark 8 v2.7.613 that came out in April 2016. This is a major update accommodates a change in the latest version of Adobe After Effects and provides better support for NVMe SSDs. The changes affect the workloads in the Adobe Applications benchmark and the Storage 2.0 benchmark. Scores from the new versions of these tests should not be compared with older versions, so just a heads up if you compare scores.

WD Blue 1TB SSD:

WD Blue 1TB SSD PCMark 8 Storage Benchmark

Benchmark Results: When it comes to PCMark 8 performance you are looking at an overall score of 4,913 with a bandwidth rating of 203.72 MB/s on the WD 1TB Blue Solid-State Drive. Not horrible for a TLC NAND based SSD.