Western Digital WD Blue SATA600 WD-E31X

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Pros:

Price, Ease Of Installation, Balance Of Speed & Storage Space, Top Of The Charts Performance, Intelligent Independent SSHD Algorithms, 3 Year Warranty

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Larger SSD Portion Would Be Nice

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Last revision on November 10, 2017

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Price, Ease Of Installation, Balance Of Speed & Storage Space, Top Of The Charts Performance, Intelligent Independent SSHD Algorithms, 3 Year Warranty

Expert reviews and ratings

We like the Western Digital 4TB SSHD for its speed and innovation as well as its massive storage space. Like most we aren't going to go out and grab four 1TB SSD's any time soon. Now we can see springing $100 bucks for a fast SSD and stacking the...

By bjorn3d.com on February 17, 2016

". generally snappier performance, as well as better boot...

By PC Authority on December 16, 2015

The price of the Western Digital Blue SSHD is higher than the competitors. Is it worth it? In a direct comparison with the Seagate Desktop SSHD of the same capacity we can see that it does not perform as well in a lot of different tests. The...

By uk.hardware.info on July 26, 2016

With good transfer speeds and lots of storage space, the WD Blue 4TB SSHD is a good drive on its own, though the SSD portion of the drive could have been better implemented. A larger cache, set to 32GB, would be more ideal for most users. If you want a...

By nag.co.za on November 25, 2015

We are starting this conclusion with the 6TB-drives. The Toshiba MD04ACA 6TB and X300 6TB offer good performance in this segment for a relatively low price, but are clearly audible with noise levels that are nearly at 40 dB(A) when idle. Nevertheless...

By uk.hardware.info on October 31, 2016

By pairing SSD-like performance with massive hard drive capacity, WD has created an intelligent hybrid drive that truly offers the best of both worlds.(previously published in issue...

By chip.com.my on January 20, 2016