Can WD do it

[Donut417]

http://www.techradar.com/news/western-digital-introduces-its-first-ssds-with-blue-and-green-drives

 

Do you guys think WD can make it in the SSD market place? I am not exactly sure of the quality of Sandisk SSD's. Do you guys thing WD can give Samsung maybe a run for its money? As pricing on the Blue drive looks pretty competitive. 

[meenmeen1103]

 

[pagani123]

edit: since they bought sandisk i think they will do fine, but i do dont think it will be as fast as the Samsung ssd 

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[MaxBunny]

14 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Do you guys thing WD can give Samsung maybe a run for its money?

Anything that doesn't explode will give them a run for their money.

[Mark77]

Sandisk has significant market share, so there's no reason why WD won't do well.  It costs WD little to stick their brand on "Sandisk" products.  With HDDs dying as a market segment for consumers, and with many WDC loyalists, surely they'll sell some under the WD brand.

[Captain_WD]

hmmmm.... I'd say they have a fair shot of making it

[Donut417]

12 hours ago, Mark77 said:

Sandisk has significant market share, so there's no reason why WD won't do well.  It costs WD little to stick their brand on "Sandisk" products.  With HDDs dying as a market segment for consumers, and with many WDC loyalists, surely they'll sell some under the WD brand.

How does Sandisk compare in speed and quality? 

[Mark77]

1 hour ago, Donut417 said:

How does Sandisk compare in speed and quality? 

They sell a buttload more drives to OEMs and into the market than Intel and Micron, so people must be buying them, and OEMs must be qualifying them on their products.

 

As for speed, I'll leave that to the benchmarks which you can probably look up online for whichever specific products you're interested in, but they're definitely competitive. 

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, Mark77 said:

They sell a buttload more drives to OEMs and into the market than Intel and Micron, so people must be buying them, and OEMs must be qualifying them on their products.

 

As for speed, I'll leave that to the benchmarks which you can probably look up online for whichever specific products you're interested in, but they're definitely competitive. 

Yeah, Ive been wanting to replace the SSHD in my laptop for a while. I dont have Samsung money. I use the laptop for school. The laptop has a 1TB drive, I might be able to get a 1 TB Sandisk drive, or even drop down to a 500 Gig and it not cost me my right arm. 

[Captain_WD]

12 hours ago, Donut417 said:

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It's also a good idea to see if several MB/s will actually affect your work. Most usage types such as simple office work, playing media such as movies, music and photos or even playing games aren't really storage-demanding and even if you have lower speeds on the SSD you won't really notice this unless you transfer really big amount of files, do benchmarks or use storage-demanding applications. 

 

What are you planning on doing on that laptop in terms of usage? WD Blue SSD could be a good choice if you are doing more intensive work while WD Green SSD could be the better choice if you use the laptop for light applications. 

 

Captain_WD. 

[Donut417]

6 hours ago, Captain_WD said:

It's also a good idea to see if several MB/s will actually affect your work. Most usage types such as simple office work, playing media such as movies, music and photos or even playing games aren't really storage-demanding and even if you have lower speeds on the SSD you won't really notice this unless you transfer really big amount of files, do benchmarks or use storage-demanding applications. 

 

What are you planning on doing on that laptop in terms of usage? WD Blue SSD could be a good choice if you are doing more intensive work while WD Green SSD could be the better choice if you use the laptop for light applications. 

 

Captain_WD. 

Technically my laptop is a gaming notebook from 2 years ago. I dont use it for much gaming. At most I might run Starbound. Mostly I take it to school and do school work. My issue is, my desktop is very responsive. While my laptop at times is not. I less worried about speeds, because any SSD should do better than a HDD any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Im more worried about reliability. As long as its reliable and it works for a good amount of time then Im good. Id expect at least 5 years of usage. Actually more, considering I dont use my laptop a whole lot. My other issue is size, first I have to see if I can go down to a 500 Gig drive, I think I can. As I dont think I can afford a 1TB drive at this time. Then I also have to do the research in to what thickness my laptop takes. Because I know that can make a difference in capability. 

 

To be honest I was looking at the WD Blue or even a Sandisk branded drive. Although I might not need the extra performance. I like my machines to respond instantly. Considering I have 16Gigs of Ram and an i7 in this beast. I have high expectations of it running smooth and snappy. 

[Captain_WD]

14 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

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You could consider an external storage device for your not-often-used data and go with an affordable and reasonably-sized SSD for your laptop. People often prefer to have average-sized SSDs in their laptop and use external drives or keep their data on personal NAS devices such as the WD My Cloud and only access them if they need them. 

 

Reliability shouldn't be an issue as long as you keep a good backup of your important data. 

 

Captain_WD.

[Dredgy]

23 hours ago, Donut417 said:

How does Sandisk compare in speed and quality? 

 

When it comes 2.5" SATA drives, SanDisk was the first to saturate the SATA connection (followed by Samsung the same week with their superior 3D flash). SanDisks SSDs are remarkably good. I use 2x Extreme Pros in my workstation and have a stack of Ultra IIs for my cameras. I used SanDisks cheap X210 drives as boot drives in my office computers and didn't have one fail over 2 years which makes them the most reliable drives we'd ever used (though we had moved from mechanical drives to SSDs so they were the only SSDs we had used).

 

I don't know if they still make them, but the cheapest "SanDisk SSDs" (that was literally their name) weren't very good value for money, but the Ultra II, Extreme II and Extreme Pro are all exceptionally good drives