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
Abstract: The WD Black SSD offers NVMe storage speed for a bargain price. It introduces SanDisk's 3D NAND into its consumer SSD range and pairs it up with an in-house memory controller. Solid state storage is a tough market at the moment, with Samsung largely rulin...
Published: 2018-09-29, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
Now that the prices of SSDs are starting to fall again, the competition is starting to take off again. Especially the new models from Crucial and Samsung bring some life back to the business, which was badly needed in this market. Last year there were few...
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Published: 2018-08-10, Author: Andrew , review by: techteamgb.co.uk
Abstract: Want one? Amazon: prourls.co/jjmv Samsung generally holds the crown for best NVMe SSDs – but WD thinks they can take it from them with this, their Black NVMe M.2 SSD – and in my case the 1TB model. Let's find out if it's worth your money, and able to slay...
Published: 2018-07-02, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
With the WD Black NVMe 2018, the storage brand is at the top of the ssd in one fell swoop. That is a commendable result, because there are plenty of other manufacturers who have taken much longer than two generations. In terms of performance, the new WD B...
Amazing performance, Good endurance and 5-year warranty, Black PCB to compliment the drive name and generally improve the look, Acronis True Image WD Edition bonus, High compatibility through standard M.2 2280 form factor,
None, “Western Digital breaks through our charts with the WD Black PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD. It is an amazing drive which could boost your system’s performance to a whole new level.”, Western Digital WD Black 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review, We would like to thank, West
Pricing and AvailabilityYou can become the proud owner of Western Digital's WD Black 1TB NVMe SSD for £365.03 or $399.15 at the time of this review.DesignAt the core, Western Digital's new drive, the WD Black PCIe NVMe M.2 drive, is quite simple. It is a...
Published: 2018-06-14, Author: James , review by: itpro.co.uk
High maximum speeds, Competitive pricing at highend
Inconsistent performance
With a dash of the best-performing 3D NAND available, the WD Black is a massive improvement on the company's previous M.2 SSD – but it's still not the best for working with masses of files at once...
Published: 2018-05-03, Author: Simon , review by: kitguru.net
Performance, WD controller, Five year warranty
The 4K performance was a little disappointing in some of the tests
WD's Black label has always been reserved for high performance disks and it has to be said that the original Black PCIe drive was disappointing. There were many that thought it should have actually been released as a Blue label product.Now WD has delivere...
Published: 2018-04-26, Author: Kevin , review by: techradar.com
Performance ranks among the best, Fastest sequential write speed we've recorded, Designed for longevity
Disappointing random write speeds
The WD Black NVMe SSD is an incredible step up from the company's previous PCIe drive, delivering a massive increase to read and write speeds. Thanks to the latter being the highest we've ever recorded, it manages to step slightly out from the shadow of t...
Super-fast performance, Five-year warranty, Big-name support
Endurance not amazing, Basic info app
A dearth of high-performance third-party controllers has lead to the big storage companies looking inward and design their own. This is why, after years in development, WD has also come to the high-end PCIe NVMe party with its own controller and, in conju...
Published: 2017-09-09, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
PCI-Express SSDs are still quite expensive, but they also perform significantly better than SATA600 SSDs. A few years ago the additional price you paid for a high-end SSD barely gave you better performance due to the SATA600-bottleneck, but now the differ...
