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March 3rd, 2010, 17:40
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Remember when Western Digital picked up SiliconSystems (http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/) for a song during the height of last decade's Great Recession? Here we are a year later looking at the first fruit of that relationship, as WD (http://www.engadget.com/tag/WD/) has just introduced its first consumer-oriented solid state drive in the SiliconEdge Blue and its enterprise-ready SiliconDrive N1x. Both 2.5-inch families feature a native SATA 3.0Gbps interface along with read speeds as high as 240 - 250MB/sec and write rates peaking at around 140 - 150MB/sec, and the former has already hit the test bench on a number of occasions. For those considering the upgrade, you should probably dive into those links below -- most everyone came away feeling that the SiliconEdge Blue was a wee bit underwhelming for the price, with Hot Hardware noting that the "Micron C300 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/micron-realssd-c300-becomes-first-ssd-to-leverage-sata-6gbps-int/) and Intel X25-M (http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/intels-34nm-x25-m-runs-like-a-thoroughbred-ssd-costs-less/) were measurably faster overall," and the lofty MSRP just left 'em looking for more. Here's hoping for a price drop and / or a SiliconEdge Black (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/), eh?WD's first SiliconEdge Blue SSD launches, gets reviewed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/wds-first-siliconedge-blue-ssd-launches-gets-reviewed/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Remember when Western Digital picked up SiliconSystems (http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/western-digital-enters-ssd-market-via-65m-siliconsystems-acquis/) for a song during the height of last decade's Great Recession? Here we are a year later looking at the first fruit of that relationship, as WD (http://www.engadget.com/tag/WD/) has just introduced its first consumer-oriented solid state drive in the SiliconEdge Blue and its enterprise-ready SiliconDrive N1x. Both 2.5-inch families feature a native SATA 3.0Gbps interface along with read speeds as high as 240 - 250MB/sec and write rates peaking at around 140 - 150MB/sec, and the former has already hit the test bench on a number of occasions. For those considering the upgrade, you should probably dive into those links below -- most everyone came away feeling that the SiliconEdge Blue was a wee bit underwhelming for the price, with Hot Hardware noting that the "Micron C300 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/micron-realssd-c300-becomes-first-ssd-to-leverage-sata-6gbps-int/) and Intel X25-M (http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/intels-34nm-x25-m-runs-like-a-thoroughbred-ssd-costs-less/) were measurably faster overall," and the lofty MSRP just left 'em looking for more. Here's hoping for a price drop and / or a SiliconEdge Black (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/11/wds-caviar-black-and-re4-2tb-drives-get-benchmarked-one-is-wic/), eh?WD's first SiliconEdge Blue SSD launches, gets reviewed (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/wds-first-siliconedge-blue-ssd-launches-gets-reviewed/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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