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Western Digital SSD

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Western Digital offers solid state drives.

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Western Digital SSD - cost effective upgrade for your workstation or laptop

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Derek Beutler
Attorney in Legal at Beutler Law P.C. (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Western Digital SSDs (Solid-state drives) have many advantages over hard disk drives (HDDs), including faster speeds, lower energy consumption, and greater durability.

By upgrading our workstations with Western Digital SSD it has increased the performance without having to upgrade the computer itself.

Pros

  • Faster read / write times
  • More durable, no moving components
  • Better battery life with laptops due to the decrease in power consumption over a HDD

Cons

  • Price point. The prices are coming down but still more expensive than HDD
  • More Storage space would be nice.

Return on Investment

  • It's allowed us to get more life out of older computers by improving their performance.

Usability

Other Software Used

Kingston SSD, Crucial, Samsung SSD

DON'T BUY PRODUCTS FROM WESTERN DIGITAL

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Slawomir GromadzkiView profile
NPD in Product Management at HealthAid (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I bought their new SanDisk Extreme 1TB Portable NVMe SSD, USB-C, up to 1050MB/s Read and 1000MB/s Write Speed from amazon for over £130. In the beginning it worked but was slower than was supposed to be. I used it 2 or 3 times. Now after months of not using it it is not detected by two different PCs, laptop, surface tablets and galaxy phone. I've tried many cables including provided by amazon. Contacted WD but they make everything very difficult. No wonder they have so many negative reviews. How can you make a disk that works only few times?!!! Will try to return/replace and continue this review asap.

Cons

  • speed
  • durability
  • honesty

Return on Investment

  • they caused a lot of distress

Western Digital SSD a good option for your storage

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Miguel Maldonado
Presales in Sales at CiberC (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have replaced all the traditional disks to SSD disks. The main problem that we had was the traditional disks after some years presents some problems and with this problem the servers and computers of the users were affected causing down times in the operation, impacting directly to the business core of the company.

Pros

  • Fast I/O
  • Secure
  • No support needed
  • Long live

Cons

  • Disks of user's computers
  • Servers
  • External Storage

Most Important Features

  • Secure
  • No additional contracts
  • easy to install

Return on Investment

  • No down times any more
  • No extra support needed
  • Save more than 100 dollars per month in change old disks

Alternatives Considered

Samsung SSD

Other Software Used

Apple iCloud, Dropbox Business, Cisco Meraki Insight

Excellent product for quick, easy, transportable storage

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Maurice Samuels
DBA in Information Technology at Duquesne Light Company (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Fast access to data (read and write).
  • Easy to connect without much extra software (overhead).

Cons

  • Speed could be improved.
  • Online corruption checking and correction during read/write could be improved.

Return on Investment

  • Very low cost.
  • Very easy to use, no need for copious or lengthy training.

Other Software Used

Android, Azure Bot Service (Microsoft Bot Framework), Google Analytics

Western Digital SSD Connects Seamlessly Across OS (Windows/MAC)

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Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SSD is helpful to get better performance and with Western Digital, it has better performance in IOPS comparing other vendors. Moreover, it gives more features from the driver's point of view as it helps to create backup partitions properly and works for both Windows/MAC environments parallelly.

Pros

  • Helps to work in both Windows/MAC environment
  • Have tool that helps to use the hard disk as backup recovery points
  • Drivers for WD gives better control than other vendors
  • Not much of heating issues

Cons

  • Not much
  • Pricing can be reduced ;)

Most Important Features

  • Tools available to access the files in multi os environment
  • Recovery points
  • Disk partitions

Return on Investment

  • It helps avoid maintaining 2 different hard disks for different os or performing migration always before formatting the file system type.
  • It helped to reduce cost of maintenance and double hardware procurement.

Alternatives Considered

Lyve Rack, from Seagate and SanDisk SSD

Other Software Used

SanDisk SSD, Lyve Rack, from Seagate