Western Digital Announces New Consumer SSDs
WD launches new SSDs.
Western Digital today announced a new line of solid state drives aimed at the consumer as part of the SiliconEdge 2.5-inch SSD family.
The new drives, dubbed the WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs, come in capacities up to 256GB with a SATA 3.0Gb/s interface and have read speeds up to 250MB/s and write transfer rates up to 170MB/s.
WD boasts that its new multi-level cell (MLC) -based SSDs feature patented and patent-pending technologies, such as advanced wear-leveling and error correction control, though the company didn't explain how they differ from other SSD makers. The SiliconEdge Blue drives also support TRIM and NCQ (Native Command Queuing).
While these are consumer level drives, they're not going to be cheap. The MSRP for the 64GB model capacity is $279, the 128GB capacity is $529.00 and the 256GB capacity is $999.00 USD.
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$1000 for a 256GB drive and they call that a consumer driver, what where they smoking? Hands up all here who can afford that.
At those prices you may as well go with a SAS RAID Array.
Also I find the data rates to be a little low for a SATA III drive - Intel and OCZ have been matching/beating those speeds on SATA II
They're still at these prices? Damn. I thought maybe after a year prices may have dropped...