WD's Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD is an entry-level SSD that impresses with sustained transfers at 450MBps, despite using TLC NAND. It's one of the fastest TLC drives you can buy and offers easily the ...

The 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND is $90 today, which is about $17 cheaper than what it’s been in recent weeks and $30 off its listing price. It’s the cheapest this drive has ever sold for.

This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD's TLC 3D NAND alongside the ...

We can’t say the WD Blue and SanDisk Ultra with 3D NAND technology are must-have drives. They compete directly with similar drives like the Crucial MX300 series and Mushkin Enhanced Reactor series.

WD recently updated its mainstream Blue line of solid state drives with new 64-layer 3D BiCS NAND flash memory. When we first took a look at the original WD Blue SSD, we found it to be an ...

All told, the 500GB WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD shown here offers up to 1.7GB/s reads, with 1.45GB/s writes (the 250GB model peaks at 1.3GB/s writes). Random 4K reads (at QD32T1) are rated at 210K IOPs ...

WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSDs will be available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities in both a traditional 2.5-inch/7mm cased drive as well as a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor.

The WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD will be offered in 250GB ($54.99) and 500GB ($77.99) capacities in a single-sided M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x2 form factor. See also: The new MacBook Pro's most hideous design flaw ...

In 3D NAND, NAND layers, not chips, are stacked in a single IC. The good news is continued cost reduction, smaller die sizes and more capacity per NAND chip.

The Western Digital WD Blue SN500 is an M.2 2280 SSD with a storage capacity of 250 GB and is also available in a 500 GB version. The drive uses the PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s, up to 2 lanes.