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Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive
Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State DriveWestern Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State DriveWestern Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State DriveWestern Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State DriveWestern Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State DriveWestern Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive
alaScore 89

8 reviews

Jun, 2025

alaTest has collected and analyzed 8 reviews of Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive. The average rating for this product is 3.1/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 89/100 = Very good quality.

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Expert review by : Jeremy Laird (techradar.com)

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128GB review

 

Western Digital get in the SSD game

A good effort from the HD maker ; Decent all-round throughput

WD has prioritised reliability ; Overpriced given the performance

Aug, 2010
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Expert review by : Bob Buskirk (thinkcomputers.org)

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive Review

 

Over the past year we have looked at quite a number of solid state drives.  The surprising thing is that these drives have been from companies that are not known for storage products.  They have mainly been from memory companies like OCZ, Corsair and...

Very impressive read speeds ; Nice gunmetal casing ; Quality built ; 3-year warranty

Write speeds were a concern

I’m sure you and almost everyone you know has a favorite hard drive manufacturer and when they are building a new system they will ONLY use those types of drives.  Honestly I am more or less the same way.  As I said in the introduction of this...

Dec, 2010
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Expert review by : garfi3ld (lanoc.org)

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128gb

 

The SSD market has grown in leaps and bounds over the past few years. It has given new names a chance to make a name for themselves. Strangely enough, the biggest names in the storage industry Western Digital and Seagate have been slow to the market,...

Western Digital’s first consumer SSD performed well in our testing. Not only did it perform well but I also found the silver drive casing to be the best looking that we have currently tested. When putting together the Cost Pre GB chart I was surprised...

Jun, 2010
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Lasted about 2 years

 

Well the drive was super fast. I noticed a huge speed increase from uprading from my IDE drive. The only issue is that it lasted 24 months. I am just getting around to writing the review as it died in September/October of 2012 which is just slightly...

Great speed

Died after 2 years

Jan, 2014
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Nothing but slowness on this drive

 

Man...this drive is just awful. I put this in a laptop that was a few years old and it just barely running faster than the spindle drive I replaced. I went to copy a few GB of files from one directory on the drive to another and get a under 6 MB/s...

It's discontinued

Slooooooooow

Jul, 2012
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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Failed after 2 months

 

I purchased an SSD for the speed and what I thought would be more reliability. I personally have never lost a SATA or an IDE in my 20 years of owning PC's, ironic that my first is one of these. Owned a PC repair shop for the last 15+ years and the...

Price- got it from a Shellshocker Deal. Despite not being the fastest SSD on the market I was thrilled to finally replace my slower 7200rpm sata

Like the last poster, mine failed with a BSOD and then an ecc error. Unrecognizable after that. What was really annoying was Western Digital's RMA not allowing SSD's to be done as an advance shipment. I had to buy another drive while I wait for them to...

Sep, 2011
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