The differentiator is this product carries the Western Digital name and reputation and leverages their acquisition of SanDisk, a leader in NAND flash memory technology. If you need more capacity, consider some of the larger capacities.Īll of the above is largely true of all products in this consumer category and price point. However, if you’re an average consumer and you’ll be using this in conjunction with a backup device (as everyone should) this is an excellent choice of high-performing storage at a solid price. While this enables increased capacities, there are some tradeoffs discussed in the cons. That said, it uses some pretty dense NAND technology, 3D/TLC meaning the cells have 3-layers and at stacked to increase capacity volumetrically vs widening the footprint. It's not like I can reverse engineer the firmware to corroborate how wear-leveling and ECC actually takes place vs a competitor's product. It's difficult to differentiate offerings like SSDs for a lot of technical reasons and difficult to validate 'marketing'.

Pros: A lot of reviewers have already posted performance specs (e.g., random read/write, sequential read/write, 512, 4K, random, etc.) so I'm not going to rehash all of that except to affirm WD's stated claims of 550MB/s read and 525MB/s write. Lab certification for compatibility with a wide range of computers.įree downloadable software to monitor the status of your drive and clone a drive, or backup your data.Īdditional Information Date First Available Sequential read speeds up to 560 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530 MB/s.Īn industry-leading 1.75M hours mean time to failure (MTTF) and up to 400 terabytes written (TBW) for enhanced reliability. Learn more about the Western Digital WDS100T2B0A Model BrandģD NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability.

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