Western Digital have announced a new series of solid state drives (SSD) to complement its range of hard drives.

"The development of the WD SiliconEdge Blue product family leverages WD's extensive experience in designing and manufacturing highly reliable storage products and the company's worldwide sales and distribution network to accelerate SSD technology adoption by OEMs, technology enthusiasts, gamers and road warriors," said Michael Hajeck, senior vice president and general manager of WD's solid state storage business unit. "Customers who demand the ultimate in performance will find the WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs exceed all their requirements."

The drives will come in capacities of 64Gb, 128Gb and 256Gb, MLC NAND flash memory, TRIM command and a host of other features. Data transfer rates up to 250MB/second read and 170MB/second write have been quoted by Western Digital.

Western Digital is a massive name in the world of Computer Storage, Hopefully this range of SSD's will live up to the high standard WD has set for itself