Testseek.com have collected 188 expert reviews of the Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe.
May 2019
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188 Reviews
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Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
Published: 2018-06-22, Author: Tom , review by: pcmag.com
Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty,
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
Published: 2018-06-07, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
The WD Black NVMe suffered an asthmatic performance in IOMeter, but its RoboBench performance was phenomenal. Western Digital had its sights set on the 970 EVO, and we expect that the Black's overall performance will fall fairly close to its rival. We di...
Available in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface, Equipped with 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Features nCache 3.0 technology, Small M.2 2280 form factor, Large DRAM cache, R
Does not support hardware based encryption, Not available in a 2TB capacity
Western Digital has clearly put a lot of time and effort into their new WD Black NVMe SSD. Instead of using an off the shelf solution from Marvell or Silicon Motion, the company engineered their new SSD platform from the ground up. Everything from the WD...
Published: 2018-05-11, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Strong Writes, Good Endurance, Competitive Pricing, 5 Year Warranty
Middling Reads, Some Performance Inconsistencies
WD Black NVMe SSD - Find Them At AmazonThe WD Black NVMe SSD hits a number of high notes. Sequential transfers are strong, especially in terms of writes, and latency and endurance are good. The drives also carry a healthy 5-year warranty. We saw some inco...
WD has expanded its SSD family with the addition of its Black NVMe SSD and the SanDisk Extreme Pro. This M.2, NVMe drive has quoted speeds up to 3.4GB/s sequential read and up to 2.8GB/s write and comes in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities. The drive is WD...
We knew from tests last year of Western Digital's SATA drives and the Toshiba XG5 that the SanDisk/Toshiba 64-layer 3D TLC was a huge improvement over their planar NAND, and possibly was even the fastest and most power efficient TLC NAND yet. It is now cl...
Published: 2018-04-05, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
WD's new in-house NVMe controller is a big win, but cheaper emerging products leave the Black 3D NVMe SSD with poor pricing at launch. It's like seeing an iceberg on the horizon. Hopefully WD can maneuver the ship in time.Review$449.99 MSRP...
Abstract: It is not often that we review two separate SSDs within the same report, however this is a rather unique opportunity. Back in 2016, Western Digital acquired SanDisk in one of the largest flash memory purchases ever; a very rare occasion for a company to a...
Published: 2018-04-05, Author: Sean , review by: thessdreview.com
At the beginning of our review, we said we would tell you why you need one of these SSDs. After reading through everything so far, we're pretty sure that we don't need to. The new WD Black and SanDisk Extreme Pro are some of the best SSDs out. They are bu...
