Testseek.com have collected 188 expert reviews of the Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe.
May 2019
(83%)
188 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(90%)
44 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Available in 256GB
512GB and 1TB capacities
PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface
Equipped with 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND
Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds
Features nCache 3.0 technology
Small M.2 2280 form factor
Large DRAM cache
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Fastest SSD we ever reviewed
No thermal throttling
Reasonable pricing
Good sequential write performance
5-year warranty
Compact form factor
Good software bundle
Warranty
Strong Writes
Good Endurance
Competitive Pricing
5 Year Warranty
Available in capacities up to 1TB
Very fast
Thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory
Reasonable cost per gigabyte
Five-year warranty
Top-notch performance
Priced more like a budget NVMe SSD than a premium model
Incredibly fast
Great Warranty
Controller Is made in house
Price
Custom in-house designed hardware
1TB Capacity
Insanely High Speed
3400 MB/s read
2800 MB/s write speeds
No overheating issues
Single-sided for better compatibility
Developed completely in-house by WD
The editors didn't like
Does not support hardware based encryption
Not available in a 2TB capacity
Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality
Expensive compared to some competing drives
SLC cache quite small
Poor performance in general across all benchmarks
Priced too high compared to the performance it gives
Middling Reads
Some Performance Inconsistencies
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Boring label
Easy to confuse with an older WD Black SSD that was also M.2/NVMe
Pricing
Some older systems will need an upgrade to support booting NVMe
Fastest SSD we ever reviewed, No thermal throttling, Reasonable pricing, Good sequential write performance, 5-year warranty, Compact form factor
Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality, Expensive compared to some competing drives, SLC cache quite small
The WD Black NVMe SSD 2018 is currently listed online for $105. Fastest SSD we ever reviewed No thermal throttling Reasonable pricing Good sequential write performance 5-year warranty Compact form factor Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality Ex...
It is readily apparent that this new Western Digital controller is a major player in the NVMe performance market. In 2016, WD spent a cool $19 billion to acquire SanDisk, a major NAND manufacturer that also produced and sold both consumer and enterprise s...
Western Digital offers a storage solution that will be very satisfactory, at that 3000 MB/sec range. The storage volume size versus performance is a little more tricky to describe as it varies per size, the 250GB model does 1,600 MB/sec writes, the 500 GB...
Published: 2018-10-23, Author: Alex , review by: wccftech.com
Incredibly fast, Great Warranty, Controller Is made in house
Pricing
All in all the WD Black NVMe is quite a strong drive, with its biggest weakness being its smaller file reads, which seems to be due to it taking a bit to jump from idle to max performance, this can be a problem for light workloads, but honestly not incred...
Price, Custom in-house designed hardware, 1TB Capacity, Insanely High Speed, 5 Year Warranty
Some older systems will need an upgrade to support booting NVMe
The day of the mechanical HDD has been long touted as coming to an end. With one of the original behemoth in the HDD market Western Digital now adopting flash-based media readily and in massive volume with the amazing performance like we saw today, it loo...
Published: 2018-09-11, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
It is amazing how quickly we have got used to the speeds able to be delivered to us by the NVMe technology and its M.2 drives. It barely seems five minutes ago we were having to pick our jaws up off the floor at the latest SSD which brought bandwidth satu...
Published: 2018-07-12, Author: William , review by: techspot.com
Many of the common storage related tasks didn't seem to be overly affected by which drive from this round up they were run on. As anticipated, Optane drives and second-generation NVMe SSDs are the top players in the market offering a considerable performa...
If any of you have had any experience with Western Digital hard drives, they don't really go around tossing the black branding on just anything. Even back in the day when they first introduced their own SSDs, they avoided it. It only goes on their fas...
Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
