Testseek.co.uk have collected 188 expert reviews of the Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital M.2 2280 Black PC Series NVMe PCIe.
May 2019
(83%)
188 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(90%)
44 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Super-fast performance
Five-year warranty
Big-name support
Amazing performance
Good endurance and 5-year warranty
Black PCB to compliment the drive name and generally improve the look
Acronis True Image WD Edition bonus
High compatibility through standard M.2 2280 form factor
Low pricing
Software management
Solid notebook battery life
5Year warranty
High maximum speeds
Competitive pricing at highend
Performance ranks among the best
Fastest sequential write speed we've recorded
Designed for longevity
First WD PCIe NVMe drive
5-year warranty
Price
Performance
WD controller
Five year warranty
The editors didn't like
Endurance not amazing
Basic info app
None
“Western Digital breaks through our charts with the WD Black PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD. It is an amazing drive which could boost your system’s performance to a whole new level.”
Western Digital WD Black 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
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Low performance
Poor endurance
2D NAND again
Misleading branding
Inconsistent performance
Disappointing random write speeds
2D Planer NAND
Overall performance is not a strong as you might expect from a Black labelled drive
Kitguru says
While it might not deliver cutting edge performance
It is good to see WD finally have a drive that gives them a seat at the top tier of SSD
The 4K performance was a little disappointing in some of the tests
Published: 2017-05-19, Author: Simon , review by: kitguru.net
First WD PCIe NVMe drive, 5-year warranty, Price
2D Planer NAND, Overall performance is not a strong as you might expect from a Black labelled drive, Kitguru says: While it might not deliver cutting edge performance, it is good to see WD finally have a drive that gives them a seat at the top tier of SSD
WD's Black range used to be all about cutting edge performance, but sadly the new drive doesn't hold up the family tradition. While it is correct to pronounce the Black PCIe drive as the fastest Black drive yet, it struggles against some of its more matur...
WD pairs the high-performance NVMe protocol with underwhelming planar 15nm TLC NAND and hopes you don't look beyond the go-fast stickers. The Black is WD's third recent consumer SSD, but none of them have been competitive at release. We can only hope...
Fastest SSD we ever reviewed, No thermal throttling, Reasonable pricing, Good sequential write performance, 5-year warranty, Compact form factor
Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality, Expensive compared to some competing drives, SLC cache quite small
The WD Black NVMe SSD 2018 is currently listed online for $105. Fastest SSD we ever reviewed No thermal throttling Reasonable pricing Good sequential write performance 5-year warranty Compact form factor Rated "up to" write speeds don't reflect reality Ex...
It is readily apparent that this new Western Digital controller is a major player in the NVMe performance market. In 2016, WD spent a cool $19 billion to acquire SanDisk, a major NAND manufacturer that also produced and sold both consumer and enterprise s...
Western Digital offers a storage solution that will be very satisfactory, at that 3000 MB/sec range. The storage volume size versus performance is a little more tricky to describe as it varies per size, the 250GB model does 1,600 MB/sec writes, the 500 GB...
Published: 2018-10-23, Author: Alex , review by: wccftech.com
Incredibly fast, Great Warranty, Controller Is made in house
Pricing
All in all the WD Black NVMe is quite a strong drive, with its biggest weakness being its smaller file reads, which seems to be due to it taking a bit to jump from idle to max performance, this can be a problem for light workloads, but honestly not incred...
Price, Custom in-house designed hardware, 1TB Capacity, Insanely High Speed, 5 Year Warranty
Some older systems will need an upgrade to support booting NVMe
The day of the mechanical HDD has been long touted as coming to an end. With one of the original behemoth in the HDD market Western Digital now adopting flash-based media readily and in massive volume with the amazing performance like we saw today, it loo...
Published: 2018-09-11, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
It is amazing how quickly we have got used to the speeds able to be delivered to us by the NVMe technology and its M.2 drives. It barely seems five minutes ago we were having to pick our jaws up off the floor at the latest SSD which brought bandwidth satu...
Published: 2018-07-12, Author: William , review by: techspot.com
Many of the common storage related tasks didn't seem to be overly affected by which drive from this round up they were run on. As anticipated, Optane drives and second-generation NVMe SSDs are the top players in the market offering a considerable performa...
