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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
Has anyone tried the new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150 ? I have a WD
1 TB Caviar Black at home but I am ready for SSD speed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWQ9LYV/ Lynn |
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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
Lynn McGuire wrote:
Has anyone tried the new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150 ? I have a WD 1 TB Caviar Black at home but I am ready for SSD speed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWQ9LYV/ I got an Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical SSD for $88 over a year ago. Twice the size was twice the price but then I have less than half of the 256 GB capacity consumed with OS+apps+someData. Must've been a sale going on back then because nowadays Newegg want $104 for the same SSD. For a 500 GB SSD (same brand and type), today's price at Newegg is $175. Newegg doesn't have the rock-bottom price but they're pretty good, a known seller, and very good support and return policies. I didn't bother to delve into how WD makes that drive you mentioned. Specs say 1.75M hours for MTBF. The Samsung lists 2M for MTBF. Newegg lists the Samsung 2TB SSD for $689 so pricing is pretty much linear: 4 times the capacity at a wee bit under 4 times the price. Until I saw benchmarks pitting the WD 500 GB SSD against the Samsung 500GB SSD, I wouldn't care about a $25 price difference. From some simple compares, the Samsung is still significantly faster. Claimed specs are one thing. That's marketing. Actual (measured) specs are better. http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m191455vs2977 (for the 250GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m192687vs2977 (for the 500GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) Something else to consider: the warranty period. The WD SSDs have a 3-year warranty. The Samsung SSDs have 5 years. |
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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
Lynn McGuire wrote:
Has anyone tried the new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150 ? I have a WD 1 TB Caviar Black at home but I am ready for SSD speed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWQ9LYV/ Storage Review: "underwhelming performance and warranty". http://www.storagereview.com/wd_blue_ssd_review_1tb The SSD line currently favored by reviewers and consumers seems to be the Samsung 850. |
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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
On 8/7/2017 11:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: Has anyone tried the new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150 ? I have a WD 1 TB Caviar Black at home but I am ready for SSD speed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWQ9LYV/ I got an Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical SSD for $88 over a year ago. Twice the size was twice the price but then I have less than half of the 256 GB capacity consumed with OS+apps+someData. Must've been a sale going on back then because nowadays Newegg want $104 for the same SSD. For a 500 GB SSD (same brand and type), today's price at Newegg is $175. Newegg doesn't have the rock-bottom price but they're pretty good, a known seller, and very good support and return policies. I didn't bother to delve into how WD makes that drive you mentioned. Specs say 1.75M hours for MTBF. The Samsung lists 2M for MTBF. Newegg lists the Samsung 2TB SSD for $689 so pricing is pretty much linear: 4 times the capacity at a wee bit under 4 times the price. Until I saw benchmarks pitting the WD 500 GB SSD against the Samsung 500GB SSD, I wouldn't care about a $25 price difference. From some simple compares, the Samsung is still significantly faster. Claimed specs are one thing. That's marketing. Actual (measured) specs are better. http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m191455vs2977 (for the 250GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m192687vs2977 (for the 500GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) Something else to consider: the warranty period. The WD SSDs have a 3-year warranty. The Samsung SSDs have 5 years. The price that I see on the Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB is $175: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-I...dp/B00OBRE5UE/ The WD Black 500 GB M.2 seems to have way better specs for $199. https://www.amazon.com/Black-512GB-P...dp/B01MR4VOBZ/ I need to check my pc to see if it can take the M.2 board. Thanks, Lynn Lynn |
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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 8/7/2017 11:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote: Lynn McGuire wrote: Has anyone tried the new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150 ? I have a WD 1 TB Caviar Black at home but I am ready for SSD speed. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LWQ9LYV/ I got an Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical SSD for $88 over a year ago. Twice the size was twice the price but then I have less than half of the 256 GB capacity consumed with OS+apps+someData. Must've been a sale going on back then because nowadays Newegg want $104 for the same SSD. For a 500 GB SSD (same brand and type), today's price at Newegg is $175. Newegg doesn't have the rock-bottom price but they're pretty good, a known seller, and very good support and return policies. I didn't bother to delve into how WD makes that drive you mentioned. Specs say 1.75M hours for MTBF. The Samsung lists 2M for MTBF. Newegg lists the Samsung 2TB SSD for $689 so pricing is pretty much linear: 4 times the capacity at a wee bit under 4 times the price. Until I saw benchmarks pitting the WD 500 GB SSD against the Samsung 500GB SSD, I wouldn't care about a $25 price difference. From some simple compares, the Samsung is still significantly faster. Claimed specs are one thing. That's marketing. Actual (measured) specs are better. http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m191455vs2977 (for the 250GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare.../m192687vs2977 (for the 500GB SSDs from WD and Samsung) Something else to consider: the warranty period. The WD SSDs have a 3-year warranty. The Samsung SSDs have 5 years. The price that I see on the Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB is $175: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-I...dp/B00OBRE5UE/ The WD Black 500 GB M.2 seems to have way better specs for $199. https://www.amazon.com/Black-512GB-P...dp/B01MR4VOBZ/ I need to check my pc to see if it can take the M.2 board. Thanks, Lynn Lynn I'd still hunt around for benchmarks to see how the M.2 drives perform. Written specs are so off that I've come to see them as lies. You don't get the speed they claim with is often a burst speed instead of sustained. There is just way too much fudging going on with the claimed specifications. Sometimes you can find a benchmark that lists a whole bunch of similar devices so you can see where the one you intend to buy will appear compared to the others. |
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new WD Blue SSD 500 GB drive for $150
En el artículo , VanguardLH
escribió: I'd still hunt around for benchmarks to see how the M.2 drives perform. NVMe M.2 drives will way, way outperform SATA. That's because they're directly connected to PCIe lanes instead of having to navigate the SATA bottleneck and the backhaul to the northbridge/CPU. What you have to watch for is that there exist SATA drives in the M.2 form factor. These will perform no better than a drive attached to SATA. You need to ensure the M.2 drive you're buying is NVMe. Finally, to boot from an NVMe drive requires BIOS and OS support. Sometimes you can find a benchmark that lists a whole bunch of similar devices so you can see where the one you intend to buy will appear compared to the others. https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/ Use as a guideline, not as gospel. -- (\_/) (='.'=) "Between two evils, I always pick (")_(") the one I never tried before." - Mae West |
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