Western Digital to offer budget consumer WD Black PCIe SSDs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/06/2017 10:18 AM | source: | 9 comment(s)

Western Digital announced the WD Black PCIe SSDs, a consumer grade product at a more friendly price. The M.2 2280 PCIe drives use the NVMe interface and will be available in either 256GB or 512GB.

These drives have a specified maximum sequential read speed of up to 2050 MB/s. The maximum write speed of the 512GB drive is 800 MB/s and that of the 256GB drive is 700 MB/s. Random reads are specified at 170,000 IOPS for both drives. The 256GB performs random reads at a maximum of 130,000 IOPS and the 512GB model at 134,000 IOPS.

The SSDs are backed with a proper 5 year warranty and 80 TBW for the 256GB drive and 160 TBW for the 512GB drive. WD Black PCIe SSDs feature thermal and power management algorithms that are, according to Western Digital, beyond the NVMe specification. This should make sure the drives have consistent performance as well as low power consumption.

The SSDs will ship on February the 14th. Prices are still lacking.

Update: the 256GB model is now listed at 109.99 USD and the 512GB version at 199.99 USD so that is roughly 40 cents per GB.

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Darkiee
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#5378806 Posted on: 01/06/2017 02:54 PM

From WD´s site, 110$ for the 256Gb version.

https://www.wdc.com/products/solid-state-drives/wd-black-pcie-ssd.html

PrMinisterGR
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#5378819 Posted on: 01/06/2017 03:52 PM

That's an awesome price for the specs.

FrostNixon
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#5378826 Posted on: 01/06/2017 04:07 PM

If it's that cheap, it will sell like hot bread.

mahanddeem
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#5378988 Posted on: 01/06/2017 09:26 PM

Sorry for my noobness.
I hava z97 asu maximus and run one gtx1080 pci e 3.0 x16. Will the pci e ssd take from the lanes of the gpu?
I don't want fast ssd and reduced gpu perf! Even if 2 or 3%

Izi Cheeseborn
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#5378990 Posted on: 01/06/2017 09:37 PM

This will definitely be better than Intel's 600p M.2's which theoretically state 1500MB/s read and 500MB/s write but performed much worst than a traditional sata ssd, false advertising at best. I returned mine, a 512gb ver. and got my money back. Western Digital x SanDisk underneath? I choose you!

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