If you are in search of a solid-state drive to speed up your programs and data this SanDisk drive could be a great option for those on a budget. A great drive for anyone who needs to save data or doesn’t trust the clickity clacking sound of doom you may witness from an HDD. SanDisk was somewhat recently bought out by Western Digital. Which, is a very trusted brand in the hard drive business. For this reason, SanDisk may be a reliable option for consumers. Along with reliability, there is a 3-year warranty to go along with the drive.

SSD Specs:

• 2 TB storage capacity
• SATA III connection
• Read speed of 545 Mbps
• Write speed of 450 Mbps
• 6 Gbit/s Transfer Rate
• MLC

Now let’s talk about price. For hard drives, the price usually is lower for an HDD, mid-range for an SSD SATA, and most expensive for an M.2 drive. This is due to the read/write speeds of the hard drives. M.2 drives usually have the fastest speeds of hard drives. While HDD drives usually have the slowest due to their mechanical components slowing them down.

References:

https://www.newegg.com

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This SSD is a huge step in the advancement of hard drives. It is extremely fast, holds 2TB of data, and lasts a long time. The SSD has a dynamic buffer, which is what allows it to go as fast as it does and last so long. It uses this SLC buffer to put it further ahead of the competition.  The specs are as follows:

• Size: 2TB
• M.2 2280 M Key 
• Reads up to 7000 MB/s 
• Writes up to 5100 MB/s 
• It has a dynamic buffer, meaning it adjusts to the size based on workload. 
• 1,200 TBW (Terabytes Written Before Failure)
• 5 Year Limited Warranty
• IOPS: 1 Million
• TLC
• Although it may not last as long, it makes up for it by having 2TB, which means overall you will likely not use as much. 
• 7,000 MB/s Transfer Speed

This is a great buy if you are looking for something high speed and carrying a lot of data. Personally, I have always gone for Samsung hard drives, it just feels more compatible with everything in my computer. Not to mention a ton of other hard drive creators are terrible at customer service. Overall review: 10/10, a great buy for your PC (especially if you are going to be playing games, things load uber fast!)

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/980-pro-pcie-4-0-nvme-ssd-2tb-mz-v8p2t0b-am/

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https://www.newegg.com/

Western Digital is one of the leading manufacturers of Hard drives and Solid State Drives, which is also the parent company of former companies such as SanDisk and G-Technology. one of their more notable productions of HDD/SSDs is the WD BLACK SN850 Solid State Drive. (picture below)

this SSD comes in capacities varying from 500GB to 2TB, with or without Heatsink. regardless of what combinations you’re looking for, the prices will be anywhere above $100.00 USD.

the specifications vary based on your retailer but are suggested that you look at the official website of the manufacturer’s website (i.e. Western Digital or Seagate) but are listed as follows on the Manufacturer’s site: 

Works Cited:
https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850-nvme-ssd#WDS500G1X0E-00AFY0

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This hard drive is for a gamer motherboard; it is very good for an M.2. When trying to find a hard drive this one can do the trick on what you’re trying to do with your motherboard. It has a lot of features and things that will add to your best experiences for your gaming.

Some of the specs are:

Size: 1TB

Connection Types: M.2 PCI

Read/write speeds:  Max Read: Up to 3400 MBps and Max Write: up to 2500 MBps

Mean time Before Failure (MTBF): 1,500,000 hours

Warranty: 3 years for parts and labor

SDDs:

Read IOPS: QD32-  Up to 500,000 and QD1- Up to 15,000 

Write IOPS: QD32- Up to 450,000 and Qd1- Up to 50,000

64L V-NAND MLC

The price of this Hard Drive is $172.65 and for a 1TB, it is at a pretty good price for all the things you want this Hard Drive to do for you.

Source (s):

Newegg

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The WD SSD 500 Gb blue edition was the top solid-state hard drive during 2017. this extraordinary SSD is still great for booting your os and your games a lot faster than an original Hard drive “Spinny Drive”. not only will this SSD load your programs a lot faster but it will last you a lifetime before it goes bad “dies”.

knowing that this SSD has many great qualities it does not just stop there it also has benefits. benefits such as a 5-year warranty that was provided by NewEgg. another benefit is if you decide that you don’t, believe me, then you can buy it and try it for 30 days whether or not you like it or not you can get a full refund at no cost to you.

Specs

Max Sequential Read Up to 560 MBps

Max Sequential Write Up to 530 MBps

4KB Random Read Up to 95,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write Up to 84,000 IOPS

the lifetime in hours Up to 1.75M hours

or 199 years

2.5’’ hard drive

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Our Verdict 

• The Good: The WD Blue SSD is faster than any regular hard drive and you can write a ton of data to it before it wears out.
• The Bad: The drive is expensive and doesn’t justify the added cost. It has a short warranty.

About Western

• Western Digital Corporation (commonly referred to as Western Digital and often abbreviated as WDC) is an American computer data storage company and one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world.
  

  

• Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips.
• Western Digital employees over 76,000 people.
• Such longevity and experience in the hard drive industry makes this drive even more reliable.

Product Details

• The Western Digital solid state drive is a fast drive. Programs load so much quicker and windows itself loads so much more rapidly with this solid state over most traditional drives.
• The major flaw with SSD’s though is the cost. This drive has a sale price of $158.33. Yes this is much more expensive than traditional spinney drives.
• However our purpose for this specific drive was for an everyday business PC.  With a solid state such as this our business PC was able to perform at maximum speeds. Programs on your PC run much faster with a SSD as such.
• This SSD just doesn’t have enough storage nor will it last a long time. Therefore, we recommend having a traditional hard drive which you can keep all your important files on to keep for a very long time. Yet by having this SSD you can run programs at much faster speeds.

WD Blue 500GB Internal SSD Specs

• Capacity: 500GB
• Interface: SATA III 6Gb/s
• Form Factor of 2.5inches or 7mm
• Firmware: X41000WD
• Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
• Sequential read: up to 545MB/s
• Sequential Write: up to 525MB/s
• Random Read IOP’s: up to 100K
• Random Write IOP’s: up to 80K
• Meantime to Failure (MTTF): 1.75Million hours
• Endurance Rating 200TB (Terabytes written)
• WD FIT Lab Certification for compatibility across a wide range of laptops and desktops
• Free downloadable WD SSD Dashboard to monitor the status of the drive and Acronis True Image backup utility
• 3 Year limited warranty

References:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-windows-10?step=Win10Question1
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W04ZF1443
https://www.wdc.com/about-wd.html]]>