Western Digital announced WD Blue and WD Green SSD

Western Digital today announced its first solid state drives, the WD Blue SSD and WD Green SSD for consumers. The ultimate solution for building DIY PCs, extending the life of current PCs or upgrading existing storage, the WD Blue and WD Green SSDs boast near-maximum speed of SATA drives, best-in-class endurance and MTTF along with WD Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) Lab certification, resulting in quick boot times and increased program responsiveness.

Consumers benefit from the combination of reliable storage with an industry-leading 1.75M hours MTTF, coupled with reduced power and less heat when compared to HDDs. Both WD SSDs include free, downloadable WD SSD Dashboard software, which allows continuous performance and capacity monitoring.

WD Blue SSD

WD Blue SSDs are optimized for multitasking and resource-heavy applications. Perfect in either a notebook or desktop PC, WD Blue SSDs are available in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities, and in a 2.5-inch/7mm case or M.2 2280 form factors.

The WD Blue SSD offers up to 545MB/s and 525MB/s sequential read and write speeds, along with endurance of up to 400 TBW. WD Blue SSDs will be available starting end of October 2016, and it will be distributed by Eternal Asia (M) Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.

WD Green SSD

WD Green SSDs deliver essential-class performance, and are a great option for everyday use. Available in 120GB and 240GB capacity, and in either a 2.5-inch/7mm case or M.2 2280 form factors, WD Green SSDs deliver an ultra-low power-draw, enabling PC users to work longer between battery charges.

WD Green features sequential read and write times of up to 540MB/s and 405MB/s, along with endurance of up to 80TBW. WD Green SSDs will be available starting November 2016 and it will be distributed by Eternal Asia (M) Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.

Both WD Blue SSDs and WD Green SSDs are protected by a 3-year limited warranty and a one-year complimentary data recovery service from Kroll Ontrack.

Price and availability

Pokdepinion: The WD Green SSD has lower IOPS rate compared to the WD Blue SSD. I’m not sure how it will perform in benchmark and real-word tests until we have a chance to get our hands on it for a review.