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

Not advised for gaming or heavy work loads, but it gets the job done. I appreciate it for the price point but thats it.

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%

I am getting a little over 2gbs read and write, I will try to get more but I need to figure out how. Then I will write back. But I am happy with 2gbs much faster than my 10,000RPM sata. Not sure if it pertains to every motherboard but when I use the NVMe slot it killed my sata ports 5 and 6. I just made sure I didnt have any hard drives connected to 5 and 6. I never seen bios lock up but it did and I was having a hard time with it. I finally unplugged all my hard drives except for window hard drive. It booted to windows, I used AOEMI free backupper, used copy disk partition to ssd. Rebooted to ssd wiped my windows drive clean. Here I am. Took a while, wasnt easy. Once you know your motherboard could do it all in under an hour. For me wasnt easy will be next time.

Works great

Saw that this drive was highly recommended so I figured what could go wrong. Well, one month later, the drive is completely unreadable and now im forced to RMA since the return period is over. Dont waste your money.

It is a great product and extremely easy to install.

Meets its specs. I am using this as a secondary drive on the motherboard for a dual boot system. It is speedy with Linux Mint loaded on it.

Not the fastest but great upgrade from standard ssd

Just know why your buying this, if you expect a major difference in games write speeds is where this drive will strut its stuff. I did a full windows 10 install in four and a half minutes vs nearly ten with the old data ssd. Game and app installs take half the time now if that and file copying with raw 4k footage takes seconds not minutes.

Personally, Ive always preferred WD drives in general from SSDs to platters, to NVME which is quickly becoming the new standard for SSDs these days. This drive is rated at 2400 MBsec read speed and as with most drives in its class, is backwards compatible with older interfaces. As you can see in the pictures I had to install it into an NVME PCI Express expansion card (this drive is utilizing the M-Key not the B-Key form factor) since my ASUS Motherboard only has one built in M.2 M-Key slot directly on the board itself. My primary NVME drive is a 256 GB Samsung Evo series which is slower than this one. Im utilizing this drive primarily to store files and most importantly, run PC games from my Steam collection since I prefer a dedicated drive for software leaving my primary drive intact for the operating system. My screen shots of Crystal Disk Mark show comparisons to my Samsung Evo to the WD Blue (The screen with the higher read and write speeds is the WD Blue FYI) Even running on PCI Express 2.0 its faster but not by much. Sadly, I cannot utilize the full potential of this drive since my AMD based PC only supports Gen 2 (AKA 2x4 interface) so the drive is only able to run at a little over half its rated speed. But then again, my board supports and AMD FX 8 core processor that is Pre Ryzen and before Ryzen based AMD CPUs were on the market. So, to get the near 2400 MBsec read speeds make sure your motherboard supports PCI Express 3.0. For years AMD was behind the curve in getting on board to support the 3.0 standard which started with AMD APUs (which no one really seems to like LOL!) then finally with AMD Ryzen processors. If youre on an Intel based system youre safe theyve been on the 3.0 standard for years well before AMD was. So, the bottom line is if youre running an AMD based CPU thats not an APU or Ryzen supported motherboard youll have to deal with the lower speeds. The good news is that as with any NVME compared to a standard SSD Sata drive youll always be double if not more even on the older hardware and it will breathe new life and speed into any build. Thats just hardware limitation folks, its lousy but it is what it is. For the inexperienced or anyone who is learning about PC hardware I wanted to touch on this so no one thinks it’s a bad product, remember your PC is only as fast as the slowest component in your setup so keep that in mind when installing these types of drives. Your motherboard and chipset are the deciding factor on how fast this drive is going to read and write. See screenshots for drive speeds, and I hope my input on this product helps because at this price range for this amount of storage is pretty good. Ive paid almost double for NVMEs half this capacity!