Western Digital WD10EZEX 1 TB PC Hard Drive - Blue, Mechanical Hard Disk

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Here the drive finally starts to falter against some other drives we tested, but it actually exceeds (by a smidge) its WD-rated speeds in sequential reads and writes. As used for storage capacity, 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment If you plan to buy this to use in your ps5 it won’t work, you just get a message instructing you to insert a gem 4 pcie ssd instead.

WD BLUE SN570 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 NVMe up to 3500 MB/s

The ultra-compact M.2 2280 WD Blue SATA SSD Drive goes through extensive compatibility and reliability testing to ensure it meets the high standards of the WD brand. As used for transfer speed, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurationsOne-month Adobe Creative Cloud trial³. Enjoy the collection of creative desktop and mobile tools for your creative projects— photography, graphic design, video editing, UX design, social media, and more. Because the data is moved around frequently, some SSDs use a smidge of DRAM—which is much faster to access and read than NAND flash—to "map out" the data, and provide a reference point for the drive so it knows where everything is.

WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD M.2 SATA - 1 TB, Blue - High WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD M.2 SATA - 1 TB, Blue - High

Keep your imagination flowing as you create faster while maintaining low power consumption. With read speeds up to 3,500 MB/s 3 (500GB – 2TB 1 models), your system can run up to 5X faster than our best SATA SSDs so you can stay in your creative moment. Inspire creativity with a one-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud offering access to some of the world’s best creative apps and services such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and InDesign. 4 In a traditional SSD with DRAM, the data that you're keeping is stored on the NAND flash chips that sit on the drive's printed circuit board (PCB). The data isn't static, though, and is constantly being moved around by the drive to ensure that no cells are being taxed much more than others and therefore wear down unevenly. This is a process called "wear leveling." Okay, off of PCMark 10 and onto a more traditional measure. The Crystal DiskMark 6.0 sequential tests simulate best-case, straight-line transfers of large files. Let's get into the drag races. We value your content. That’s why the WD Blue reliability features help protect your content so you can stress less about losing your brilliant work.

Testing the WD Blue: A Benchmark Duel

A Western Digital Blue SATA SSD drive uses technology not only for higher capacities (up to 4TB in the 2.5" 7mm form factor 1) than the previous generation WD Blue SSDs, but also to help reduce cell-to-cell interference for enhanced reliability. However, it should be noted, that these two tests don't tell the whole story of how a drive will perform for all creative applications. For example, cinema rendering programs like Cinema 4D may need to load dozens of different types of files at once, rather than just one large file like you might have encased in a Photoshop project or a movie that's being edited in Premiere.

Western Digital Blue 1 TB SATA 2.5-Inch Hard Drive

WD seems to have gotten around this hurdle with the addition of a much smaller SRAM chip ("static" RAM to DRAM's "dynamic" RAM). SRAM chips are faster than DRAM, though they can be more expensive to implement. WD also found a workaround for this, including just a few megabytes of SRAM on the in-house Western Digital controller, rather than the larger SRAM caches that you might see on other drives that implement a similar technique. One of the main upgrades from the older SN500 model that we tested last year is the increase in PCI Express lane allocation, which directly affects peak throughput. The WD Blue has gone from two lanes (PCI Express x2) in the previous model, a decidedly budget move, to four (PCI Express x4) in the SN550. That helps boost the top sequential read and write speeds from the SN500's 1,700MBps and 1,450MBps, respectively, to the SN550's numbers cited above. While the sequential results of the WD Blue SN550 may not look tip-top on the surface, it seems WD was more concerned with real-world performance in the development of this drive, rather than just peak scores in spec sheets. First, there's the overall PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark. This score represents how well drives do throughout the entire PCMark 10 run, and are the sanctioned scores presented by UL's software at the end of each run. This score includes a weighted average of every simulated activity that the PCMark 10 storage test runs, from copying files to launching games, booting an OS to running creative applications. It's a general indicator of how consistently a drive can perform through 23 different usage scenarios. In contrast, the utility's 4K (or "random read/write") tests simulate typical processes involved in program/game launching...Now, a drive can operate just fine without a DRAM chip installed. Instead, the "map" is stored either on the NAND flash chips themselves, or can be stored temporarily in the RAM of the system you're booting into. From the SSD maker's point of view, leaving off the DRAM saves on production cost, thereby making the drive cheaper to manufacture, and cheaper for consumers in the end. However, this can have a marked effect on drives that are used to store operating systems, programs, or games, all of which use shallow-depth 4K writes and reads. In this test the WD Blue SN550 holds its own against pricier drives like the Patriot P300, while also keeping pace with performers like the Seagate and TeamGroup. Launching Games As used for storage capacity, 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment. Unlike those tests, which copy a file from another drive onto the testing drive and record the raw writing throughput to the drive (or reading capacity off of it to another drive), PCMark 10 is expressing the average bandwidth speed of a transfer when the file is on the same drive. If you're regularly moving files around on your drive from one folder to another, this test is a handy relative throughput measure. Last up is a series of file and folder transfers done in the SSD benchmarking utility AS-SSD. This trio of tests involves copying large files or folders from one location on the test drive to another…