Western Digital Black SSD M.2 - Reviews
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21.2.2018
This is blazingly fast for a boot drive. All of your main programs also boot quite fast, simply because the read and write speeds are crazy. This uses PCIe lanes which means it is not SATA-based, so you can free up a hard drive space if you wish.If you are coming from a hard drive, you will be amazed with the loading times. If you're coming from an SSD then the jump isnt as big if you are only doing regular day to day tasks and gaming. If you do editing and design then the high speeds will come in handy to you.Just make sure that your motherboard supports the NVMe protocol, if not you will need a PCIe to M.2 adapter. Also double check with your motherboard manual to make sure the slot is PCIe gen 3 x4 to take advantage of the full speed.
21.5.2018
I installed this into a new Alienware 17 r4 laptop. The startup speeds are not so different than a much cheaper ordinary SATA SSD, but I find it very satisfactory. A cold boot to desktop takes 17-18 seconds on my laptop with an Intel i7 7700 cpu. Copying large files within itself feel instant, and this is where an NVMe shines over a SATA SSD.However, if you are copying files between this drive into a spinning HDD or a SATA SSD, the process would be bottle-necked by the other drive read and write speeds, therefore, you would get little real benefit from the experience. The speed benefit you will experience from game or other application load times is also limited compared to a cheaper SATA based SSD option.I still recommend this product.
21.4.2018
I am using 2 of these as SSD cache in my Synology DS918+. Working as you would expect as they are on Synology's compatibility list. The only odd thing is that they show up as Sandisk when the model number is clearly WD. I expect this is because WD bought Sandisk in 2016.Update: One month later and according to SMART info attribute "Percentage Used"I have already used 28% on the life of these. I did some further digging and even though these have a 5 year warranty it wont be honoured if SMART says I have used more than 100%. WD have set the SMART counters very low. Luckily the drives will likely work well past the artificial counter that WD have assigned and these are being used as cache in RAID1.
19.4.2018
Assuming this drive works I'll have dropped on a decent M.2 drive for a decent price. I have fitted it to my Asus ROG Strix X370-F gaming mobo, unfortunately I haven't yet fitted it all in my case yet so can't comment on its performance yet but judging by the bumf that surrounds the drive it should fly.According to the interweb, one needs a USB stick to install windows onto these types of drives, assuming you're using it as your main C: drive.Make sure that you have the correct socket on your motherboard for this type of drive as there are two similar looking types, one will fit your board perfectly while the other one won't, not without an adapter anyway. Then you'll only get a mild increase in speed with the older NGFF(M.2)
9.1.2018
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytesSequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 879.378 MB/sSequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 767.500 MB/sRandom Read 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 693.705 MB/s [ 169361.6 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 8,T= 8) : 532.287 MB/s [ 129952.9 IOPS]Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 557.188 MB/s [ 136032.2 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 364.347 MB/s [ 88951.9 IOPS]Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 43.732 MB/s [ 10676.8 IOPS]Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 108.261 MB/s [ 26430.9 IOPS]Test : 500 MiB [C: 52.6% (124.8/237.4 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]Date : 2018/01/06 0:53:28OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 16299] (x64)
24.5.2018
A good fast M2 NVME SSD, gets hot, even when idle, when used bare. We have now fitted an EKWB cooler which is highly recommended. Comes with a five year warranty, we will see. It is certainly more likely to make it with the cooler, which we have paired with a small fan. It certainly boots up far faster than a SATA SSD, which is good.
15.1.2018
I'm new to SSD but my latest build was going to have Windows 8.1 on SSD. I chose this WD version because it has a 5 year warranty, 2 years more than the alternative I was considering, and only slightly slower peak data speeds.Good price, good size and works brilliant. Amazing upgrade if you haven't already experienced this.
30.5.2018
This is great for the price. Although, as others have mentioned, if you're after speed, you should really get the Samsung PRO one instead. I'm using it in a RAID configuration though, so works very well for my use.
17.8.2017
It is the 1st real NVMe from WD. The only concern the heat and the high temperature of the drive when it is used in high performance computer. It is still very good for its value.
29.11.2018
Good value for MVMe drives at the time of purchase. However, PCIe storage doesn't represent value over traditional SSD's. Diminishing returns is colossal!
23.1.2019
WD 256GB PCIe SSD card. This is very fast. I installed it for Win10 and games on my Lenovo Win 10 laptop. It certainly gave it a turn of speed.
31.1.2019
Using this hai as a gaming drive for my most played games, the load speed is great and it’s value for money also
17.5.2018
Fast easy install with few bios changes works great as OS drive windows noots almost instant now
22.12.2017
OK yes the game is offline but I am still able to do loads of stuff very happy
18.3.2019
Cloned with WD software and everything worked first time.