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CES 2021: Western Digital Announces New 4TB Portable SSD Portfolio

January 11, 2021TWGHardware

Bold metal design that is both stylish and durable. The drive is shock and vibration resistant and drop resistant up to 6.5 feet (1.98m), and comes in a range of colors including Gray, Blue, Red, Gold and Silver. Blazing fast NVMe technology with read speeds of up to 1050MB/s and write speeds of up to […]

WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD Review

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020TWGHardware

Western Digital’s WD Blue SSDs are mainstream drives in the middle of the company’s consumer product stack, offered at lower price points than the company’s high-performance WD_BLACK products, and positioned above the the WD Green lineup. What we are looking at today is from the latest generation of WD Blue drives, with the SN550 (announced […]

Fast External Storage With The New WD My Passport SSDs

November 2, 2020November 3, 2020TWGHardware

Your Passport To The Land Of Fast External Storage Western Digital’s new portable SSD takes advantage of USB 3.2 Gen 2 to make transfers as quick and painless as possible. Tweaktown’s testing shows that for sequential data you can expect 1043 MB/s read and 1013 MB/s write, not quite internal storage speeds but incredibly impressive […]

Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD On the Way

October 11, 2020October 11, 2020TWGHardware

But Western Digital had more to add to their storage offering. Info from their press release follows: WD_BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD Add-in-Card – For gamers looking to achieve next-gen performance in a current-gen setup, this fully bootable plug and play add-in card is one of the fastest PCIe Gen3 x8 solutions on the market. Powered by […]