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
Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
If any of you have had any experience with Western Digital hard drives, they don't really go around tossing the black branding on just anything. Even back in the day when they first introduced their own SSDs, they avoided it. It only goes on their fas...
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Published: 2018-06-22, Author: Tom , review by: pcmag.com
Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very fast, thanks to NVMe support and 3D NAND memory, Reasonable cost per gigabyte, Five-year warranty,
Lower capacities offer lesser performance
Available in a capacious 1TB version and boasting screaming read/write speeds, the WD Black NVMe is an excellent M.2 SSD to install in a gaming rig or media-editing workstation...
Published: 2018-06-07, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
The WD Black NVMe suffered an asthmatic performance in IOMeter, but its RoboBench performance was phenomenal. Western Digital had its sights set on the 970 EVO, and we expect that the Black's overall performance will fall fairly close to its rival. We di...
Available in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface, Equipped with 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Features nCache 3.0 technology, Small M.2 2280 form factor, Large DRAM cache, R
Does not support hardware based encryption, Not available in a 2TB capacity
Western Digital has clearly put a lot of time and effort into their new WD Black NVMe SSD. Instead of using an off the shelf solution from Marvell or Silicon Motion, the company engineered their new SSD platform from the ground up. Everything from the WD...
Published: 2018-05-11, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Strong Writes, Good Endurance, Competitive Pricing, 5 Year Warranty
Middling Reads, Some Performance Inconsistencies
WD Black NVMe SSD - Find Them At AmazonThe WD Black NVMe SSD hits a number of high notes. Sequential transfers are strong, especially in terms of writes, and latency and endurance are good. The drives also carry a healthy 5-year warranty. We saw some inco...
WD has expanded its SSD family with the addition of its Black NVMe SSD and the SanDisk Extreme Pro. This M.2, NVMe drive has quoted speeds up to 3.4GB/s sequential read and up to 2.8GB/s write and comes in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities. The drive is WD...
We knew from tests last year of Western Digital's SATA drives and the Toshiba XG5 that the SanDisk/Toshiba 64-layer 3D TLC was a huge improvement over their planar NAND, and possibly was even the fastest and most power efficient TLC NAND yet. It is now cl...
Top-notch performance, Priced more like a budget NVMe SSD than a premium model, Five-year warranty
Boring label, Easy to confuse with an older WD Black SSD that was also M.2/NVMe
The Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSD is as fast as Samsung's 960 Pro, but it costs a lot less. In fact, it's only slightly more expensive than entry-level drives. It's the drive that smart buyers should go for...
3400 MB/s read, 2800 MB/s write speeds, No overheating issues, Single-sided for better compatibility, Developed completely in-house by WD
None that we found
The launch of the WD Black NVMe SSD is in our opinion one of the biggest launches for the company. It is something that Western Digital has really needed and finally brings them into the discussion for high-end NVMe drives. The high-performance NVMe marke...
