upgrading from old samsung ssd(great p&p for 4 years).

nice paperweight

shows up in bios- not device or disk man

Comes with Acronis Disk Clone so you can replace the old hard drive which slows down your PCs performance. The swap made a HUGE difference in my wife's economy PC. I added 4GB of memory then cloned her current drive onto this drive. Acronis is awesome and flawless cloning. Quick clone job too!

You might wonder why we're testing two solid state drives in the one review? Well, it's because WD is being a little tricky with its marketing for these two products. The WD Blue 3D range of drives is aimed at resellers and system builders, while the SanDisk Ultra 3D drives are being marketed to...

No matter how ingenious the manufacturers' R&D departments might be, a SATA SSD can only go so fast: throughput limits mean that it's only going to get harder for a SATA-based SSD to innovate.

High write speeds; Good durability

Inconsistent in everyday use

There are still lots of PCs out there that would take on new life with a simple hard-drive-to-SSD upgrade , and Sandisk's Ultra 3D is one of the best,...

Very good overall and sustained performance; Affordable in all capacities

A bit slow reading smaller files and folders; 2TB version has a lower TBW rating

SanDisk's new 3D-NAND TLC-based drive is very competitive, reasonably priced, and all-around excellent. It's a safe alternative to the iconic SSD 850 EVO.

Very good overall performance; Aggressively priced; Includes cloning software

Not quite as fast as Samsung's two-year-old SSD 850 EVO; Three-year warranty; not five

aawsom thing to buy make my latop super fast

More than two years after the release of the Samsung SSD 850 EVO series of SSDs, we're finally starting to see a few challengers to its supremacy, thanks to the adoption of 3D NAND by some of its rivals.

Very good overall performance; aggressively priced; includes cloning software

Not quite as fast as Samsung's two-year-old SSD 850 EVO; three-year warranty, not five

WD recently updated its mainstream Blue line of solid state drives with new 64-layer 3D BiCS NAND flash memory. When we first took a look at the , we found it to be an admirable performer with competitive pricing.

The Western Digital Blue 3D and the SanDisk Ultra 3D give us our second look at BiCS 3 flash. The first time we got our hands-on BiCS 3, it was with Toshiba's XG5. We have been impressed with BiCS 3 on both occasions. BiCS 3, as far as we know, will be only of the TLC variety.