Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive Review

December 27, 2010

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 Crucial. It is about time one of the big storage companies we all know stepped up and released a solid state drive. Well today we have one such drive from Western Digital. Today we will be taking a look at the SiliconEdge Blue 256GB solid state drive. This drive features read speeds of up to 250MB/s and write speeds of up to 170MB/s. Let’s take a look…

Special thank to Western Digital for providing us with the SiliconEdge Blue 256GB Solid State Drive to review.

Specifications

Physical Specifications
Capacity	256 GB
Interface	SATA 3 Gb/s
Form Factor	2.5-inch Drive
RoHS Compliant	6/6
User Sectors Per Drive	500,118,192

Performance Specifications
Target Performance
Interface Burst Speed	3 Gb/s
Sustained Read Speed	Up to 250 MB/s
Sustained Write Speed	Up to 170 MB/s
MTBF	1,400,000 hours
Error Rate (non-recoverable)	< 1 in 10¹⁵ bits read

Operational Lifespan
Read	Unlimited
Write	70 GB/Day

Physical Dimensions
English
Height	0.40 Inches
Depth	3.9 Inches
Width	2.75 Inches

Metric
Height	9.5 mm
Depth	98.9 mm
Width	69.86 mm

Power Management
DC Input Voltage	5V
Read (Peak Watts)	2.00 Watts
Write (Peak Watts)	3.5 Watts
Sleep (Idle Watts)	0.60 Watts

Environmental Specifications
Shock
Operating Shock	1000 G, Half-sine, 0.5ms Duration, 50g Pk, MIL-STD-810F, Method 516.5, Procedure I

Temperature (Metric)
Standard Temperature (c)	0° C to 70° C
Non-operating	-55°C to 125°C

Humidity
Operating	8% to 95% Non-condensing

Altitude (English)
Operating	80,000ft, MIL-STD-810F, Method 500.4, Procedure II

Vibration
Operating	16.3gRMS, MIL-STD-810F, Method 514.5, Procedure I, Category 24

Packaging
We received this drive directly from Western Digital so it comes just like an OEM drive would. So it is inside a plain brown box. When you open the box up it is protected by 2 black inserts and is in an anti-static bag.