Western Digital launches its first own-branded SATA client SSDs

[HEXUS]

WD Blue and WD Green SSD ranges become available immediately.

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[crossy]

I wonder if WD are going to move the "Sandisk" brand to memory cards only, and eventually rebrand all the Sandisk SSD's as "WD" whatevers...

[lumireleon]

SO I was like....wait a second I have never seen a Western.D SSD drive

[OilSheikh]

Wow, it took a very long time for a HDD manufacturer like WD to make an SSD!

[Bambooz]

Western Digital launches its first own-branded SATA client SSDs

Uhm.. what about the SiliconEdge Blue series WD launched 6 (!) years ago..?!

https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroo...te-drives.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2954
http://www.storagereview.com/western...lue_ssd_review (mainly for the PCB shots)

As for the "new" WD Blue... it uses TLC NAND (yuck) just like the Sandisk X400 it's based on and it's a sub-par performer in the price class. Not really worth bothering with..
(admittedly, the SiliconEdge with its rebadged JMicron controller was equally trash back then)

[DanceswithUnix]

Just SATA, when the world seems to be moving to NVMe?

Ebuyer have them up for pre-order, was wondering if they would be cheaper than RRP but not much so far: http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/...estern+Digital