WD has been a storage pioneer and leader since 1970. The award-winning WD brand delivers cost-effective solid state storage for a wide variety of applications requiring high speed, high reliability, and long life. From your PC to your laptop, WD SiliconEdge Blue provides maximum compatibility, performance,portability, and ruggedness. Advanced Wear-Leveling - WD"s wear-leveling algorithm uses a combination of dynamic and static wear-leveling that writes data evenly over the entire drive, preventing drive wear out and lengthening drive life. Advanced Error Correction - Enables error free data transmission by deploying advanced error correction technologies to detect and correct errors resulting from signal noise or other kinds of interference that causes data distortion. Native Command Queuing (NCQ) - Increases the performance of SATA drives by placing read / write commands in the optimal sequential order for the fastest execution. Data Integrity Protection - Prevents data loss from unexpected power loss during write operations to ensure data integrity and availability. ATA SMART Commands - Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technologies (SMART) detect and warn when an SSD needs replacement. WD Certified - WD"s drives are rigorously tested over months in WD"s Functional Integrity Testing (F.I.T.) Lab to ensure worry-free compatibility and peak peformance with thousands of systems.