{"id":117929,"date":"2017-05-30T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117929"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:04:28","slug":"western-digital-launches-64-layer-3d-nand-ssds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117929-western-digital-launches-64-layer-3d-nand-ssds","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital launches 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital and its subsidiary SanDisk have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20170529005044\/en\/Western-Digital-Deliver-World%E2%80%99s-Client-Solid-State\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>launched<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0consumer SSDs using 64-layer 3D NAND technology at Computex 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivering 64-layer 3D NAND-based SSDs into the PC segment marks a critical step in our ongoing conversion to this new technology,\u201d said Western Digital.<\/p>\n<p>WD Blue and SanDisk 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs will be available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities in a 2.5-inch form factor.<\/p>\n<p>WD Blue 3D NAND SSDs will also be available in an M.2 2280 form factor using a SATA interface.<\/p>\n<p>The new drives feature read and write speeds of 560MB\/s and 530MB\/s respectively, and have a mean-time-to-failure of 1.75 million hours.<\/p>\n<p>SanDisk and WD Blue 3D NAND SSDs will be priced from $100 and are set to launch in Q3 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/213048-western-digital-reveals-worlds-first-3d-nand-ssds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/209146-wd-launches-ssds-in-south-africa-pricing-and-details.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WD launches SSDs in South Africa \u2013 Pricing and details<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div class=\"bottom-share\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital and its subsidiary SanDisk have launched consumer SSDs using 64-layer 3D NAND technology at Computex 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":117931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15525,3863,24487],"class_list":["post-117929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-3d-nand","tag-solid-state-drive","tag-wd-blue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}