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Western Digital WD Blue 3D WDBNCE5000PNC

WDBNCE5000PNC

The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD 500GB is a relatively fast SATA 3 SSD. It uses the 2.5" form factor and offers peak read and write rates of 560 / 530 MB/s (with the SLC cache). It uses a Marvell 88SS1074 controller with 4 channels and 512 MB DDR3L / SLC cache. Western Digital specifies the power consumption of the drive at 3.8W in use and 0.056W in idle.

TypeSSD
Size2.5
Capacity500 GB
InterfaceSATA III
ControllerMarvell 88SS1074
Announced05.08.2019

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - DiskSpd
9.5 pt (11%)
Seagate ST1000LM014 Solid State Hybrid Drive
0.687 -93%
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FPT310M4SSD256G
7.86 -17%
Kimtigo KTB900SM28/512GB
7.9 -17%
Kingston RBUSNS8154P3256GJ1
8.14 -14%
Netac NS512GSSD330
8.14 -14%
FPT310M8SSD512G
8.17 -14%
Faspeed P8-512G-SE
8.25 -13%
Teclast BD256GB
8.36 -12%
FPT330M8SSD512G
8.69 -9%
Samsung SSD PM871b MZNLN256HAJQ
9.24 -3%
Western Digital WD Blue 3D WDBNCE5000PNC
9.5
Samsung SSD 860 Evo 512GB
9.63 1%
Crucial P2 1TB CT1000P2SSD8
9.79 3%
SK hynix HFB1M8MQ331C0MR
10.1 6%
Samsung SSD 860 Evo 256GB M.2
10.4 9%
Apple SSD SM0512F
10.9 15%
Kingston OM8SEP4256Q-A0
10.9 15%
Foresee 512GB
10.9 15%
Apple SSD AP0512
11.1 17%
SK hynix BC501 HFM256GDGTNG
11.2 18%
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Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB
88.2 828%
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AS SSD - Copy Game
248.9 MB/s (4%)
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AS SSD - Copy Program
191.9 MB/s (7%)
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AS SSD - Copy ISO
482.5 MB/s (2%)
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AS SSD - Score Total
1023 Points (6%)
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AS SSD - Score Write
324 Points (4%)
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AS SSD - Score Read
457 Points (7%)
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AS SSD - Access Time Write *
0.1 ms (0%)
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AS SSD - Access Time Read *
0.1 ms (0%)
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AS SSD - 4K-64 Write
193.7 MB/s (3%)
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AS SSD - 4K-64 Read
369.4 MB/s (7%)
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AS SSD - 4K Write
88.5 MB/s (17%)
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AS SSD - 4K Read
36.8 MB/s (12%)
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AS SSD - Sequential Write
413.8 MB/s (4%)
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AS SSD - Sequential Read
507 MB/s (4%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K
105.9 MB/s (10%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K
39.2 MB/s (1%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K Q32T1
320.5 MB/s (7%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K Q32T1
342.1 MB/s (5%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write Seq Q32T1
514 MB/s (3%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read Seq Q32T1
554 MB/s (3%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 6 Write 4K Q8T8
330.8 MB/s (7%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 6 Read 4K Q8T8
391.8 MB/s (6%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q1t1_write
104 MB/s (24%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q1t1_read
40.1 MB/s (12%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q32t16_write
307 MB/s (5%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd 4k_q32t16_read
394 MB/s (5%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_write
470 MB/s (5%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_read
490 MB/s (6%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_q8t1_write
515 MB/s (4%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd seq_q8t1_read
544 MB/s (3%)
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DiskSpd - DiskSpd Loop seq_q8t1_read
549 MB/s (3%)
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- Range of benchmark values
red legend - Average benchmark values
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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#2 not redirecting to Ajax server +0s ... 0s

#3 did not recreate cache, as it is less than 5 days old! Created at Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:51:42 +0100 +0.001s ... 0.001s

#4 composed specs +0.005s ... 0.006s

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#9 min, max, avg, median took s +0.92s ... 0.944s

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