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Guru3D.com » News » Western Digital Starts Offering WD Blue 4TB-SSD

Western Digital Starts Offering WD Blue 4TB-SSD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/29/2019 08:07 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)
Western Digital Starts Offering WD Blue 4TB-SSD

Good news for consumers that would like a nice big 4TB SSD in the 2.5" form factor as Western Disgital now follows Samsung by offering one. It started listing at several shops for roughly 550 Euros.

The WD Blue 2.5" SATA-SSD based on 64-layer TLC NAND from Sandisk. Perf is what yoyu may expect from the SATA3/TLC combo at a sequential reading and writing of 560 and 530 MB/s respectively. 4K IOPS sit a 95000 IO/s and 82000 IO/s. The controller used is a Marvell 88SS1074 with four channels.

If we uphold that 550 euros then the pricing sits at just under 14 cents per gigabyte, which is slightly more expensive than the Samsung 860 QVO, however that one is QLC-NAND based. The WD-SSD take 600 TB written but we doubt that's the case (expect more). Western Digital offers a five-year warranty.

 



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er557
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#5664209 Posted on: 04/29/2019 08:18 AM
The price point seems quite high, for everyday media and games storage needs this drive targets(certainly not OS, is it?), one might buy a larger cheaper spinner drive and cache it with a small ssd such as with intel rst or primo cache software.

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#5664268 Posted on: 04/29/2019 12:16 PM
The price point seems quite high, for everyday media and games storage needs this drive targets(certainly not OS, is it?), one might buy a larger cheaper spinner drive and cache it with a small ssd such as with intel rst or primo cache software.

That's going to give you reasonably good sequential write. Reasonably good mixed random access/write.

But it is not going to deliver good sequential read, which is likely most common activity 4TB drive is going to do.

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#5664269 Posted on: 04/29/2019 12:16 PM
Little by little price fall down, over 1000 last year and now around 600 buck for main stream consumer... it's good :)
Few more less and it will be good for everyday use.

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#5664270 Posted on: 04/29/2019 12:19 PM
That's going to give you reasonably good sequential write. Reasonably good mixed random access/write.

But it is not going to deliver good sequential read, which is likely most common activity 4TB drive is going to do.
On other hand it will not be it's duty, it is not intended to this use.

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#5664272 Posted on: 04/29/2019 12:25 PM
On other hand it will not be it's duty, it is not intended to this use.

If it is storage drive, one does not necessarily need 500MB/s write and read.
If it is for applications, content processing, then it would be necessity.

I surely would consider 2TB SSD for games. But instead I'll likely get 1TB M.2 as it will read ~3 times faster in 2nd M.2 slot on MB.

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