Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue Product Overview - Page 1

WD SiliconEdge™ Blue™ Lightning Fast and Rugged at a Great Price Buy with total confidence. WD has been a storage pioneer and leader since 1970. The award-winning WD brand delivers cost-effective solid state storage for a wide variety of applications requiring high speed, high reliability, and long life. From your PC to your laptop, WD SiliconEdge Blue provides maximum compatibility, performance, portability, and ruggedness. Product Highlights „ Fast data transfer - up to 250 MB/s read, 170 MB/s write „ Low power consumption - 2.2 W read, 3.5 W write „ High tolerance to shock and vibration „ Plug-and-play compatibility Product Features Advanced Wear-Leveling Advanced Error Correction Native Command Queuing (NCQ) WD's wear-leveling algorithm uses a combination of Enables error free data transmission by deploying Increases the performance of SATA drives by placing dynamic and static wear-leveling that writes data advanced error correction technologies to detect and read / write commands in the optimal sequential evenly over the entire drive, preventing drive wear out correct errors resulting from signal noise or other order for the fastest execution. and lengthening drive life. kinds of interference that causes data distortion. Data Integrity Protection Prevents data loss from unexpected power loss during write operations to ensure data integrity and availability. ATA SMART Commands WD Certified Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technologies WD's drives are rigorously tested over months in (SMART) detect and warn when an SSD needs WD's Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) Lab to ensure replacement. worry-free compatibility and peak peformance with hundreds of systems. Markets „ Gaming and multimedia PCs „ High performance computing Applications „ High definition video editing „ High-end gaming „ Mobile computing „ Ruggedized computing systems „ Home servers and workstations „ Notebook and Netbook PCs