News - WD finally launches consumer SSDs

[HEXUS]

New SiliconEdge Blue drives bring Western Digital 2.5 inch SSD fun to notebooks and desktops.

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[MadduckUK]

if that's the price of the blue what the hell are the blacks going to be priced like?

[Biscuit]

All MLC i take it?

[shaithis]

if that's the price of the blue what the hell are the blacks going to be priced like?

Will they even bother with a black edition? It's not like there are any moving parts and lots of heat generated.....and I doubt there will be a "green" model either.....

[MadduckUK]

All MLC i take it?

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3757 review, and yes - MLC

[kalniel]

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3757 review, and yes - MLC

Another cracker. Love the diagrams with 'confidential' watermarked in the background

[TooNice]

Way too expensive! Even if we assume that you can just do a straight currency conversion (which is basically never the case for computer components), it work out at:

64GB: £185.36 (£2.91/GB)
128GB: £351.45 (£2.75/GB)
256GB: £663.70 (£2.59/GB)

More realistically, we should be looking at around/over £3/GB unless WD change those pricings. Having now read the Anandtech review, it's not even a drive that beats the much cheaper (but hardly cheap) OCZ Agility.

I could see them 'merge' blue and green together because I wouldn't really expect the change to be too significant. But I could see a black version, whether it is using different/faster memory/controller.

OCZ did exactly that.