Today, SanDisk announced that mainstream WD Blue and WD Black SSDs would be discontinued and replaced by SanDisk ...

NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner WD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives ...

The Optimus family will be segmented into three lines: elite-performing Optimus GX Pro SSDs, gaming-oriented Optimus GX ...

Sandisk Optimus, Sandisk Optimus GX, and Sandisk Optimus GX PRO are the new names for the PC gaming-focused WD Blue and ...

Essentially, SSDs under the WD branding are actually owned by Sandisk. The two companies used to be one and the same—with ...

The transition marks the unspooling of the 2015 merger between the two firms, when Western Digital paid $19 billion for SanDisk to combine hard drive and ...

Western Digital is incorporating 8-24GB of NAND in its drives (Seagate offers a static 8GB of flash) and has heavily customized the firmware. PC manufacturers will apparently have the option of ...

The big guns are finally coming out to join the PCIe 5.0 SSD party, first with the Samsung 9100 Pro, and now with the new WD Black SN8100, and both drives are aiming their banks of high-speed flash ...

It’s not the fastest hard drive around, but the My Passport for Mac provides plenty of portable storage at a competitive price. The high performance and compact design of solid-state drives makes them ...

The WD Black SN8100 (starts at $179.99 for 1TB, $279.99 for 2TB as tested) is the first WD-branded PCI Express 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD) to come to market, but it was well worth the wait. The SN8100 ...