Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Reviews

• HotHardware: WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review:
  
  

  "The Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue SSD performed relatively well throughout our testing, but after evaluating its performance, it's easy to see why WD chose to position the drive in the "Blue" product category, rather than the company's flagship "Black" series. While the SiliconEdge Blue offers strong performance, especially in comparison to any spinning hard drive, in light of competing solid state storage solutions, it performs a little on the average side. The closest competitor to the SiliconEdge Blue performance-wise, would have to be OCZ's standard Vertex series SSD. The OCZ and WD drives performed right on top of each other in many tests, with each drive trading victories depending on the application. The Micron C300 and Intel X25-M were measurably faster overall, however, with the exception of the WD's sustained write performance. The SiliconEdge Blue is much faster than the X25-M in that category, as are many recent generation SSDs."

  
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• TweakTown: Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive:
  
  

  "As for performance, we were able to determine that in real world use the SiliconEdge Blue is able to compete and in a few cases perform better than Indilinx Barefoot drives. At this point the Barefoot firmware can be considered mature and really close to the best we can get from the controller. The SiliconEdge Blue is fresh and just starting its lifecycle. With WD engineers there is no telling just how fast the drive can become once the final chapters are written."

  
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