The Western Digital Blue (1TB) SSD Review: WD Returns to SSDs
by Billy Tallis on October 11, 2016 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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AnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.
The WD Blue's average data rate on the Light test is surprisingly slow and barely faster than the Crucial BX200. It appears that the WD Blue cannot deliver very fast burst performance even though it performs reasonably well under a sustained load.
While the WD Blue only barely beat the Crucial BX200 on average data rate, it clearly wins on average service time. The WD Blue's empty drive average latency is substantially higher than most of the competition, but its full drive performance stands out less.
The number of high-latency outliers experienced by the WD Blue on the Light test is much higher than most of the competition, but also less than half what the Crucial BX200 suffered.
Power consumption is once again a highlight of the WD Blue, with above average performance that is slightly better than the SanDisk X400.
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Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - link
This article need a "The Rock" picFinally, HDD vendors make it back to consumer hearts, with an SSD.
Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - link
The Mushkin Reactor is still a champ if you don't wanna go for the 850Pro.Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - link
I think you only got 3-4 options for SSD's.Samsung 850Pro
Crucial MX300
Mushkin Reactor
*Add Hynix SSD's when they sell the 1TB model.
Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - link
*Samsung 850Pro/EVO2016, still no edit button...
mapesdhs - Friday, October 14, 2016 - link
Sad part is we'll be saying the same thing next year.MrGulio - Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - link
Each time I see a new SSD review it reminds me more and more what a garbage fire the BX200 is.Bulat Ziganshin - Saturday, October 15, 2016 - link
here in russia samsung 750 and sandisk ultra 2 are good competition too, providing prices comparable to trion 150 devices. but on american amazon they are no better than mx300Bullwinkle J Moose - Saturday, October 15, 2016 - link
Extra large premium for the Pro???I require a minimum of 160GB for my Boot Drives in my test Rigs so I need 250 - 256GB SSD's minimum
Lets look at the Huge Premium at Newegg for the 250/256GB EVO & Pro
Oct 15 2016
850 EVO / 250GB $99.99 OUT OF STOCK
850 Pro / 256GB $123 IN STOCK
850 EVO warranty 3 years
850 Pro warranty 10 years
850 EVO TLC Nand
850 Pro MLC Nand (40nm process)
Firmware problems
850 EVO ???
850 Pro None
Would anyone here spend more than the difference in price between these 2 SSD's just for an extended warranty on an EVO?
The better buy is the Pro!
It also has much better compatability with various Operating Systems than PCIe / M.2 SSDs
I'm using mine for Windows XP / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 and Linux Mint
Try running any OS that is not a DRM Spyware Platform on your precious M.2 drive
TheinsanegamerN - Monday, October 17, 2016 - link
linux mint/ubuntu/arch/ece love the 950 pro.SeanJ76 - Thursday, October 20, 2016 - link
Intel>all other SSD manufactuers