Western Digital Black NVMe tips up

Stefan Mileschin · 6th January 2017, 09:14

WD jumps into NVMe market

Aggressive pricing and performance expected.

Western Digital has announced their first entry into the NVMe Solid State Disk market. Coming out of the gate strong, their first offering is a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe-based SSD that they expect to deliver more than three times the sequential read speeds over their current SATA SSDs portfolio

Initially to be offered in 256GB and 512GB capacities, they recommend to pair the product with a high-capacity hard drive, or as primary storage when building a future-ready PC. The WD Black PCIe SSD boasts up to 2050MB/s and 800MB/s sequential read and write speeds. Western Digital's internal benchmarking shows that consumers who are using the new WD Black PCIe SSD to boot up, load read-intensive games or applications, or shut down a system may realize a performance improvement of more than 10 seconds when compared to SATA SSDs.

http://fudzilla.com/news/42548-western-digital-black

6th January 2017, 09:14	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Western Digital Black NVMe tips up WD jumps into NVMe market Aggressive pricing and performance expected. Western Digital has announced their first entry into the NVMe Solid State Disk market. Coming out of the gate strong, their first offering is a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe-based SSD that they expect to deliver more than three times the sequential read speeds over their current SATA SSDs portfolio Initially to be offered in 256GB and 512GB capacities, they recommend to pair the product with a high-capacity hard drive, or as primary storage when building a future-ready PC. The WD Black PCIe SSD boasts up to 2050MB/s and 800MB/s sequential read and write speeds. Western Digital's internal benchmarking shows that consumers who are using the new WD Black PCIe SSD to boot up, load read-intensive games or applications, or shut down a system may realize a performance improvement of more than 10 seconds when compared to SATA SSDs. http://fudzilla.com/news/42548-western-digital-black

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