Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS500G2B0C

My AMD based gaming PC came with a 512MB NVME drive, and I was looking to increase the capacity. I added a 1TB SSD for file storage, but SATA only gave me 600 MBS (which is the limit for SATA). Upgrading the NVME from 500GB to 1TB allowed me to double my high speed capacity for short money while almost tripling the throughput of the SATA drive. I could have saved a few bucks by going with a no-name, but WD has always been extremely reliable for me (I only use WD Reds in my 3 NAS devices and never had a failure on any of my 17 WD drives).

I bought this as a secondary drive on my new laptop. It already had a WD Blue 500GB, but since it is a gaming laptop and I know I was getting Microsoft Xbox Game Pass for PC, I kind of needed the extra space. The performance is top-notch. Everything is nearly instant. It took me 20 minutes to remove my laptops back panel, 2 minutes to install the WD Blue and screw it down, Then another 20 to replace the back panel. Seriously, it has almost 30 screws. The drive was recognized right away. I performed a quick format and started installing games. My next upgrade will be to PCIe Gen4 WB Blacks, but that will be a ways off. If youre on the fence about buying one of these, no matter the size, just hop on down and grab it. Youll be glad you did.

I purchased it with an Orico enclosure, but its speed does not exceed 450MB. I expected it to be faster than 1.5 GB. I have tried it on 2 different computers and find no improvement. At least as an external drive it is considerably less than I expected.

Had some worries about installation reading other feedbacks. I had no problem installing the m.2 drive or installing an OS on it on my old Dell 5040. Runs just fine.

I upgraded the SSD on my Dell XPS 12 9360 with the 250GB and it works great. No problem with installation and drive is much faster than my old SATA SSD.

should have looked at the one star reviews. worked just long enough to boot into windows 11 and then boom ,the problems started. ended up having to replace a motherboard, and a GPU that suddenly stopped working. decided to try my first Samsung SSd instead.

No work

Im glad I had purchased this. Delivered quick, installed it (my motherboard already had a mounting screw on it), cloned OS main hard disc with Macrium, rebooted PC. Boots my PC in approximately 15 seconds, over all performance speed increased quite bit. Im very happy with this. If I had more budget, Id purchase 1GB of this same version or WD BK version.

Compré este ssd para mi Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 y va genial, mi pc ahora enciende en 4 segundos, tengo Warzone instalado allí, y el juego va excelente, los tiempos de carga mejoraron bastante, la única observación es que si se va a instalar windows allí y ya tenia otro disco duro conectado, toca desconectarlo e instalar windows en el nuevo disco para evitar confusiones en el arranque. De resto excelente. Recomendado al 100%

Upgraded my 19 laptop that came with a factory installed 512gb SSD Drive while using Win10s built in Backup - Create a System Image - then reinstalled Win10 using Media Creation Tool - at the beginning of setup I chose Repair your PC - Troubleshoot - System Image Recovery -- no need to use a USB NVMe drive if you want to do a hassle free upgrade while retaining all the data. Even though it replaced another fast NVMe drive, this one is quite impressive - battery life is improved as well. Ive used a benchmark website to see which SSD consumed less power and I cant imagine needing something faster for regular use such a video creation, encoding, file management but better battery life is always welcome.