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

I love how much faster this is compared to a top notch SSD

Died after a few months!

Solid, easy to install(Okay, MOSTLY easy, M.2 installs are always a little harrowing, what with being, you know... sideways...), and does what its supposed to. However, it includes no migration software. If this had included even just a short-term EaseUS license for migration and setting a drive up to the right drive type, this would have been perfect.

edit: Western Digital Customer Service is top notch, if your looking for easy to talk to representatives. Highly recommend. However, if looking for a boot drive Avoid this product! Go with the Black version not the Blue! This hard drive is not stable! Constantly restarts, selectively recognized by UEFI. Unable to run as primary drive. This is a storage only drive! Not for OS use!!! Buyer beware! Western Digital hides their drivers for no actual reason (damn gatekeepers) So if you want to use this hard drive for a fresh install, well you can NOT Good luck, there is a reason this is so cheap...

So far no issues its fast too. Have windows and my games on here and they are quick to load

The physical installation was easy, but thats where the easy stopped. The SSD was visible in my bios and device manager, but none of the disk management utilities could see it. I had to: open my laptop back up unplug the existing c drive Boot to a thumb drive Create a partition Reattach the hdd Reboot... Now it was visible

I bought this to store my games so they could boot up quicker. Overall, I am very satisfied with this m.2, but the only reason its not 5 stars is that the install was tedious and it wasnt plug and play. The screws were very tiny (which is to be expected for a smaller drive) and with my big hands it was quite difficult to install. Also, I had to try it on 3 different spots on my motherboard before it would even show up on my computer. I began to get frustrated, but thanks to amazons customer support, I just had to change the format of the drive in disk management on my computer and now it runs very smooth and fast. Probably just my own fault, but it works now and Im very content. Shout out Amazons customer service for the help!

These drives are very quick, yet have a pretty price tag. But after paying two day shipping and having to wait over a week to find out I received only one is very irritating. But props to their customer service for shipping me a new one. Hopefully it won’t be missing!

The price was just right for this product. It is a great little SSD for installing your operating system on.

After installing this SSD on my PC the boot times reduced significantly, and also my pc works more smoothly than before. It makes my PC feel faster than before. Also, it was quite simple to install in less that 1 minute I installed it without any trouble. +