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Review: WD Black PCIe M.2 512GB SSD

The ‘Black’ series in WD (Western Digital) famously represents high performance and fast internal storage coupled with 5 year warranty. WD’s SanDisk acquisition has led to their entry in to the SSD market with SATA based WD Green and Blue and as NVME solutions are now available to the consumers, in comes WD Black NVME M.2 PCIe SSDs available in 256GB and 512GB variants. SATA VS PCIE M.2 Drives While SSDs offer significantly greater performance than a HDD, they were bottlenecking at 600 MB/s due to the old SATA III connection, for comparison a 7200RPM HDD provides a maximum of 200 – 228 MB/s in real world ussage. The PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 connection that WD Black SSD uses provided Data transfer speed up to 8GB/s Specifications Capacity – 512GB, 256GB Interface ̵...


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