WD Silicon Edge Blue Review
Storage media-based Solid State Drive (SSD) more prevalent in the market. Western Digital hard drive as well-known manufacturers also took part with the launch of WD Silicon Edge Blue.
Silicon Edge Blue is one of the SSD-based storage media by Western Digital. Comes with various capacities namely, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, but for testing this time we will examine more deeply the ability Silicon Edge WD Blue 256GB version.
If viewed from the physical size, this product is no different from other brands that have a similar capacity. Which it has a thickness of 0.4 inches, 2.75 inches wide and 3.9 inches long.
Performance offered is not far adrift, only this product has a relatively large capacity in its class. However please note, the key lies in product performance SSD controller has.
Unlike some other products such as Intel are using their own controllers, WD instead decided to use a chip from a third party as the ‘brains’ behind the Blue Silicon Edge performance.
High speed, but unstable
It can no longer be denied if the SSD storage media have speed read / write better than the Hard Drive (HDD) that still use the Platter.
Not only that, the product SSD also consumes less energy and resistant to shocks. So, if there is a laptop that can be operated using the SSD is better than using HDD.
To Silicon Edge Blue 256GB, does have a speed read / write which is high. But unfortunately, are not stable. In a sense, there is a significant decrease when used to transfer large amounts of data.
This is evidenced through the application of HD Tune which there was significant decrease during testing, for example, to the ability to write.
This product is capable of writing up to 182 MB / sec or an average of 107.9 MB / sec, but it is not stable until the fall at the lowest speed that is 0.2 MB / sec.
It certainly will not taste the difference if users only use these products for a variety of everyday lightweight applications, but it’s different when used for movies such as transferring large data with high resolution.
Migrating to the Era SSD, is it worthy?
Blue Silicon Edge exactly is WD’s first debut as a major player in the computer storage industry. The emergence of these products even while providing more choices to its users. So it’s time to migrate to the SSD media era?
It is not denied if the SSD offers a number of advantages that are not obtained with HDD media, but all kinds of excess must be redeemed at a price that is quite expensive.
256GB WD Blue Silicon Edge priced with $ 999 price range, the price is quite expensive indeed but what is worthy of being one choice of computer users?
The answer is depending on each individual’s needs, if you want high-speed storage medium with limited funds may not match the SSD. Another case for users with limited funds and that put a large capacity.
Pros:
+ Large Capacity
+ High maximum speed
Disadvantages:
- Expensive Price
- Less stable
Benchmark Results:
HD Tune
Read:
Minimum: 85.6 MB / sec
Max: 214 MB / sec
Average: 210.1 MB / sec
Write:
Minimum: 0.2 MB / sec
Max: 182.2 MB / sec
Average: 107.9 MB / sec
HD Tach
Quick Bench: 251.4 MB / sec
Long Bench: 254.2 MB / sec
PCMark Vantage
HD Test Suite: 24530th
In reviewing these products are used based system: Processor Intel Core i7 965, Intel DX580SO, MSI GTX 275, Corsair HX1000W, Corsair Dominator 6GB kit, ASUS VH226 and operating system Windows 7
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