{"id":1914,"date":"2018-03-08T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2018-03-08T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:24:14","slug":"wd-blue-500gb-ssd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2018\/03\/08\/wd-blue-500gb-ssd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"WD Blue 500GB SSD Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&lt;![CDATA[*This is a part of a classroom experiment.<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-family: Bitter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 30px\">Our Verdict\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/WD-SSD-Pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1929 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/WD-SSD-Pic-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Good<\/strong>: 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bad:<\/strong>\u00a0The drive is expensive and doesn&#8217;t justify the added cost. It has a short warranty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Western<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdc.com\/about-wd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Digital<\/a> Corporation (commonly referred to as Weste<span style=\"color: #141412;font-size: 16px\">rn 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.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1931\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1931\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/WesternDigitalHQ150617-580x358-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Headquarters are located in San Jose, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips.<\/li>\n<li>Western Digital employees over 76,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>Such longevity and experience in the hard drive industry makes this drive even more reliable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Product Details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Western Digital solid state drive is a fast drive. Programs load so much quicker and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/get-windows-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">windows\u00a0<\/a>itself loads so much more rapidly with this solid state over most traditional drives.<\/li>\n<li>The major flaw with SSD&#8217;s though is the cost. This drive has a sale price of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ZX4ZT7932&amp;cm_re=western_digital_500gb_SSD-_-20-250-079-_-Product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$158.33<\/a>. Yes this is much more expensive than traditional spinney drives.<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/desktopPC_290x230_CiaranGriffin_Stockbyte_Thinkstock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1979 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/desktopPC_290x230_CiaranGriffin_Stockbyte_Thinkstock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>However our purpose for this specific drive was for an everyday business PC.\u00a0 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.<\/li>\n<li>This SSD just doesn&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WD Blue 500GB Internal SSD Specs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Capacity: 500GB<\/li>\n<li>Interface: SATA III 6Gb\/s<\/li>\n<li>Form Factor of 2.5inches or 7mm<\/li>\n<li>Firmware: X41000WD<\/li>\n<li>Controller: Marvell 88SS1074<\/li>\n<li>Sequential read: up to 545MB\/s<\/li>\n<li>Sequential Write: up to 525MB\/s<\/li>\n<li>Random Read IOP\u2019s: up to 100K<\/li>\n<li>Random Write IOP\u2019s: up to 80K<\/li>\n<li>Meantime to Failure (MTTF): 1.75Million hours<\/li>\n<li>Endurance Rating 200TB (Terabytes written)<\/li>\n<li>WD FIT Lab Certification for compatibility across a wide range of laptops and desktops<\/li>\n<li>Free downloadable WD SSD Dashboard to monitor the status of the drive and Acronis True Image backup utility<\/li>\n<li>3 Year limited warranty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>References:<\/h6>\n<p>https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/get-windows-10?step=Win10Question1<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W04ZF1443<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.wdc.com\/about-wd.html]]&gt;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;![CDATA[*This is a part of a classroom experiment. Our Verdict\u00a0 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:\u00a0The drive is expensive and doesn&#8217;t justify the added cost. It has a short warranty. About Western &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2018\/03\/08\/wd-blue-500gb-ssd-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WD Blue 500GB SSD Review<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-drives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}