Western Digital Announces First Black Series SSD

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The new high-performance product utilizes PCIe 3.0 x4 with the NVMe protocol to deliver flagship-level performance in a small package.

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[mcconkeymike]

I hope it performs better than their blue line of SSDs did. Those blues made me not have a problem with the Samsung tax.

 

[Nintendork]

What they to realize is that this is not like HDD's where you can low performance drives that will reflect on price.

Aside from DRAMless controllers and TLC, you can't really cut much of the fab cost. You sell a good performing, reliable drive for the right price and people will come in mass, you try to go the old fashion way, you're doomed.

 

[Nintendork]

They are really making the 512GB 960PRO a bang for buck...

 

[bentonsl_2010]

Those prices are half of what and 960 pro would cost at the same sizes. If they are what they claim I'm sold.

 

[mcconkeymike]

The prices for the 960 EVO are pretty damn good. About 50 cents per gig from what I've seen. So WD has a lot to prove before I would go with something other than Samsung.

 

[vern72]

Those speeds seem slow to me compared to the Samsung 950 PRO (2500MB/s read and 1500MB/s write).

 

[kal326]

Not really a premium offering compared to what Samsung already has on the market, but better stated read/write performance and similarly priced to Intel's 600p which is bring up the budget NVMe PCIe storage range.

 

[Bruce427]

@ Chris

Chris, when do you think we will see a review on the Corsair MP500 and the Samsung 500 GB 960 Pro?

Thanks

 

[Mizox]

Thing had better be mlc

 

[samc0101]

Hi...this is awesome news. Just a Q, I have GA-z97x-ud3r-black mobo with 2280 m.2 slot onboard, will this work? Also I have Windows 7 x64 Pro license dont wanna waste it, can i install this OS on WD black NVMe version or i need AHCI model.