Products Internal Drives. WD BLUE 3D NAND SATA SSD. High Capacity, Enhanced Reliability, and Blazing Speeds. View Gallery. For high-end computing applications like gaming, HD media playback, or creative software, look to WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSDs, with capacities available up to 4TB1.

The WD Blue 3D SSD is a SATA SSD with a not-so-secret twin: Sandisk's Ultra 3D SSD. They are in fact the same drive with different labels, WD owning Given their superior performance compared to other TLC NAND drives—that's a really good thing. Design and capacity. Though available in the...

Ready for your high performance computing needs, a WD Blue™ 3D NAND SATA SSD offers high capacity, enhanced reliability, and blazing speed. Learn more at...

After the unremarkable original WD Blue SSD, Western Digital bounces back with a 3D NAND release that elevates the performance of their drive to that of the premium brand products, but still at an entry-level price.

WD Blue 3D NAND is one of the newest SATA SSDs on the market and right from the start it seems to have a promising future. It delivers high transfer speeds at a very reasonable price for such a drive. Hopefully, it will also deliver WD endurance standards, same as their huge hard drive lineup.

Western Digital has launched this 3D NAND in the retail market with a SATA drive that is being sold under both their SanDisk and WD brands. Like almost all current consumer SSDs with 3D NAND, the new SanDisk Ultra 3D and WD Blue 3D NAND SSD uses 3D TLC NAND flash.

The first WD Blue SSD to see the light of day didn't really cause that many ripples in the market. Now we have the second generation WD Blue SSD This time people will take notice not least because it uses leading edge 64-layer BiCS3 3D TLC NAND technology. The new WD Blue 3D NAND drive...

The differences between the Western Digital Blue 3D and SanDisk Ultra are mostly cosmetic. Both WD and SanDisk provide free access to the SSD Dashboard software suite. Sadly, the software will not work across both product families; you can't use the WD version to secure erase a SanDisk drive, for...

Award Winning WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. Capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. An active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSD. Sequential read speeds up to 560 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530 MB/s.

The Blue 3D NAND SSDs come in four capacities: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB. Each capacity will available in both of the form factors (2.5-inch versus The pricing on the WD Blue 3D is competitive, if not quite as low as the flag-bearer among mainstream-SATA drives, the Samsung SSD 850 EVO...