Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Performance Review
Western Digital (WD) today announced its first consumer-oriented solid state drive (SSD) with the new WD SiliconEdge 2.5-inch SSD family. With sequential read speeds up to 250 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write transfer rates up to 170 MB/s could this be your next SSD? Read on to found out what we think when we give it an in-depth performance review!
WD informed Legit Reviews that these SSDs have been designed for both read-intensive client/consumer applications and write-intensive, 24/7 OEM applications; WDs new multi-level cell (MLC)-based SSDs feature patented and patent-pending technologies, such as advanced wear-leveling and error correction control, as well as TRIM and NCQ (Native Command Queuing) command support to ensure maximum drive performance and endurance with easy plug and play compatibility. WD said that they spent over 130,000 hours testing this drive and during that time they did 40 revisions of firmware before getting the performance numbers and durability where they wanted it.
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