Western Digital Corporation (“Western Digital”)
(NASDAQ: WDC) today announced the availability of new WD
Black® PCIe solid state drives (SSDs), the first WD-branded client
PCIe SSDs. The new SSDs complement the recently announced WD Blue®
and WD Green® SATA SSDs, as well as the company’s industry leading
family of hard drives for PCs and workstations, providing a full
portfolio of WD storage devices for virtually any application.
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WD Black PCIe High-performance NVMe SSDs
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The WD Black PCIe SSD is a performance PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe-based
SSD that delivers more than three times the sequential read speeds
of current SATA SSDs. The 256GB and 512GB capacities make it ideal
as a boot drive when paired with a high-capacity hard drive, or as
primary storage when building a future-ready PC. Consumers who are
using the new WD Black PCIe SSD to boot up, load read-intensive
games or applications, or shut down a system may realize a
performance improvement of more than 10 seconds when compared to
SATA SSDs.1
“NVMe PCIe-based SSD adoption is poised to accelerate in 2017
and the years to follow,” said Jeff Janukowicz, vice president,
IDC. “Products like the WD Black PCIe SSD, with a broad
ecosystem and compatibility testing, should give customers a
significant performance increase over SATA SSDs and offer a
straightforward solution for customers to update to or build
future-ready systems.”
As a compatible and reliable solution to ramp
up newer PC
configurations with PCIe performance, the WD
Black PCIe SSD is the ideal storage solution for the
performance PC enthusiast and for more demanding gaming and
VR-focused applications. The WD Black PCIe SSD delivers more than
three times the sequential read performance of SATA SSDs, an
industry-leading 1.75M hours MTTF, and WD Functional Integrity
Testing (F.I.T.) Lab certification. The WD Black PCIe SSD has been
designed with thermal and power management algorithms beyond the
NVMe specification to help with consistent performance as well as
low power consumption.
Like all WD SSDs, the WD Black PCIe SSDs include free,
downloadable, WD SSD Dashboard software, which allows continuous
performance, capacity monitoring, and firmware updates.
“We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation interface
change,” says Eyal Bek, senior director of client SSD, Devices
Business Unit, Western Digital. “The WD Black PCIe SSD ramps up
performance while delivering worry-free reliability for our
customers worldwide. We believe that this will accelerate the
transition that is already occurring from SATA to PCIe. Western
Digital is uniquely positioned to offer customers a complete
storage portfolio—HDD or SSD, and SATA or PCIe form factors for
every segment of the market.”
“ASUS is dedicated to advancing technologies and leading
innovation. WD and ASUS worked closely together to ensure that the
WD Black PCIe SSD delivers performance that our customers expect
with hassle-free installation and use. With the latest ASUS
motherboards and WD Black PCIe SSDs, gamers can focus on winning
rather than the distraction of waiting for games or levels to
load,” said Joe Hsieh, corporate vice president and general
manager, Motherboard Business Unit and New Product Planning
Division, ASUS.
Pricing and Availability
WD Black PCIe SSD
WD Black PCIe SSDs will be available in 256GB and 512GB
capacities in a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor. The WD Black
PCIe SSD boasts up to 2050MB/s and 800MB/s sequential read and
write speeds, a 5-year limited warranty and WD F.I.T. Lab™
certification for compatibility with many leading platforms.
Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the WD Black PCIe
SSD start at $109.00 USD for the 256GB and $199.99 for the
512GB. The WD Black PCIe SSD will be available worldwide and on
www.wd.com during the first half of 2017.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is an industry-leading
provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people
to create, leverage, experience and preserve data. The company
addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio
of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with customer-focused
innovation, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. Our products
are marketed under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs,
distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and
consumers.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including the approximate price and estimated product availability
of the WD Black PCIe SSD and expectations for the acceleration of
the transition from SATA to PCIe, that are based on current
expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may
cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that
may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include
among others: our product offerings may not be available at the
price and time we expect, the transition from SATA to PCIe may not
accelerate as expected and other risks detailed from time-to-time
in Western Digital’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and
reports, including, but not limited to, our most recent annual
report on Form 10-K to which your attention is directed. This news
release contains information from third parties, which reflect
their projections as of the date of issuance. All statements made
in this news release are made only as of the date of this release.
Western Digital undertakes no obligations to update the information
in this release in the event facts or circumstances change after
the date of this release.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change based
on your location, software version, device model, and third party
service providers.
Western Digital, WD, the WD logo, F.I.T. Lab, WD Black, WD Blue
and WD Green are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western
Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other
countries. All other marks are the property of their respective
owners. Pictures shown may vary from actual products. Product
specifications subject to change without notice. Not all products
may be available in all regions of the world. As used for storage
capacity, one gigabyte = one billion bytes and one terabyte = one
trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on
operating environment.
© 2017 Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
1 Comparison based on 256GB WD Blue and WD Black PCIe SSD tested
using an ASUS Z170A ATX DDR4 motherboard, Intel I76700K 4.00 GHz 8M
Processor Cache 4 LGA, 16GB 2133MHz DDR4 DRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX
950 graphic card. OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit, with Internet
connection. Software: Batman: Arkham Knight - Windows Standard
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