WD Blue 250GB SSD Linux Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WD Blue 250GB SSD Linux Benchmarks

While I have owned many Western Digital hard drives over the years years, last week was my first time trying out one of the company's new solid-state drives (SSDs) under Linux. Some Linux benchmark results to share for reference today are of the WD Blue 250GB (WDS250G1B0A) SATA 3.0 SSD...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WD-Blue-SSD-250GB-Linux

[tildearrow]

Typo:

While I have owned many Western Digital hard drives over the years years,

[tuke81]

I believe this is re-badged Sandisk x400(WD bought sandisk in 2015). Not that it's a bad thing, Sandisk makes solid ssds().

[Space Heater]

I wonder if they will allow ssd firmware updates without needing to have a Windows Install or a Windows PE usb stick.

[Geopirate]

I wonder if they will allow ssd firmware updates without needing to have a Windows Install or a Windows PE usb stick.

Wd has been pretty good about this, I'm sure they will hand this over to their old team.

[DeepDayze]

I wonder if they will allow ssd firmware updates without needing to have a Windows Install or a Windows PE usb stick.

Would be nice if there was a Dos/FreeDOS based firmware installer, and a Linux one as a bonus

[GraceAsylum]

I am impressed with the Apacer Z280 for the value.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1612256-TA-1612254TA69