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April 2010
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The editors liked
Competitive sequential read and write performance
Reliability carries forward from a long-time player in the embedded market
Fast performance that remains consistent over time
Sturdy Casing
Decent Performance
Backed by WD
High Capacity
Stylish
Sustained write speeds topped out at 171MB/s.
Very impressive read speeds
Nice gunmetal casing
Quality built
3-year warranty
Fast 246/187 MBps read/write speed with CrystalDiskMark
JMicron JMF612 processor supports TRIM and SMART
WD Functional Integrity Testing Lab Certified
Good enthusiastlevel operational I/O performance
Lightweight compact storage solution
Resistan...
The editors didn't like
Relatively low IOPS performance
Price (see below)
Expensive
Low capacity compared to standard hard drives
MSRP Way Out Of Line
High Cost Per GB
Outperformed By Older Gen Drives
Sustained write speeds were sometimes as slow as 1.1MB/s
Abstract: The SiliconEdge Blue SSD may be Western Digital's first attempt at producing a solid state drive for the PC, but don't let that fool you into thinking that Western Digital engineers don't know what they are doing. Solid state memory is merely a new st....
Ask any avid computer enthusiast for their recommended brand of hard drives and you are sure to evoke a passionate response of at least one manufacturer to avoid. Having the Western Digital name and decades of storage technology experience backing its...
Abstract: SiliconEdge Blue drives have the same cost per gigabyte as the Plextor, and although our 256GB model offered much better overall performance, it stumbled in IOMeter. Hard. Random-write performance is a definite weakness for..
Abstract: This also happened with the 80 GB model. Under this particular test, Corsair Nova 128 GB and Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128 GB were the best-performing products...
Abstract: Although Western Digital is known for its excellent hard drives, acquiring Silicon Systems in March of last year was an obvious sign that the company planned to enter the SSD market at some point. Well, there is no longer a need to speculate, because the..
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Published: 2010-04-01, Author: James , review by: techworld.com
Western Digital's first consumer-friendly SSD, the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue is fast and reasonably priced when compared to the competition, but it is still too expensive as a hard drive replacement in most PCs....
Fast 246/187 MBps read/write speed with CrystalDiskMark, JMicron JMF612 processor supports TRIM and SMART, WD Functional Integrity Testing Lab Certified, Good enthusiastlevel operational I/O performance, Lightweight compact storage solution, Resistan...
Expensive/overpriced enthusiastlevel product, Lacks integrated USB MiniB data connection, Not 3rdGeneration SATA6Gbps compatible, No public firmware updates available
Benchmark Reviews begins our conclusion with a short summary for each of the areas that we rate. The first section is performance, which considers how effective the WD SiliconEdge-Blue SSD performs in operations against direct competitor products. For...
I've repeated it enough times that you should get the point by now - Western Digital's SiliconEdge Blue is just a bit behind the performance of an Indilinx based SSD. The drive performed relatively well in our tests. TRIM worked as expected under Windows...
Competitive sequential read and write performance, Reliability carries forward from a long-time player in the embedded market
relatively low IOPS performance, Price (see below)
For Western Digital's first crack at SSD, this new drive performed well. Sequential transfer rates are competitive with most modern units and can best Intel in write speeds. That said, this new offering leaves something to be desired when it comes to ra...
The WD SiliconEdge Blue has solid sequential performance, but the overall performance of the drive and price leaves us wanting more bang for the buck. ...
