Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,600 MB/s - WDS200T2B0C

I bought this SSD to upgrade my PC and I’m very happy with this purchase and the results.The SSD was easy to install and set up. It fit perfectly in my M.2 slot and was recognized by my BIOS and Windows 11 without any issues.I have been using this SSD for over two years now and it has worked flawlessly. I haven’t experienced any slowdowns, errors, or failures. I couldn’t have asked for a better product.

Comprado para un pc de escritorio, va muy bien para usarlo con Windows. En una B450, sirve perfectamente sin tirones, buen rendimiento.

No hay mucho que decir. Me ha funcionado perfecto por más de un año . Algo costoso para cuando lo compre

Use this m.2 to run my OS and it is just... Awesome!

I have a Mac Mini 2014 late.It works better than a new one computer with a conventional hard drive.

I've had this product for over a year now and still haven't had any issue with it, it runs perfectly :)

There are several choices when it comes to moving from USB3 flash drives, which have good read/write speeds initially but deteriorate over time to the equivalent of USB2 under moderate-to-heavy use, to a truly SSD-based USB3, which support sustained high-performances throughout its lifecycle.The easiest choice is to select a vendor who has put an SATA-based SSD into an SSD USB3 enclosure and sells it as an integrated product. Examples include: “ RAVPower Mini External SSD Hard Drive Portable SSD USB-C Solid State Flash Drive ” and its Pro version. Neither worked for me for following reasons: The original version (i.e. the non-Pro version) worked fine initially but failed to get recognized by my XP/Vista/Win7/Win10 after a few weeks. The replacement Pro version ended with a similar fate.The 2 nd choice is to buy, separately, an SATA-based SSD and an USB3 enclosure, and put them together oneself. The advantages include: Newer chipset used in the SSD USB3 enclosure and wider selection of SSD. The downside is lack of future proof when one upgrades computer with an NVMe based motherboard, which allows an NVMe-based SSD to double its transfer speeds but not SATA-based SSD.The 3 rd choice is to buy an NVMe-based SSD and an MVMe USB3 enclosure, and put them together oneself. I selected this future-proof route by purchasing “ WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280 - WDS100T2B0C” and “ Sintech USB 3.0 NVMe SSD enclusure,USB 3.1 M.2(NGFF) M Key NVMe SSD External Case Box (USB 3.1 Heatsink Case)”.This combination worked fine on my XP/Win7/Win10, but not on my Vista that had a “ StarTech 2 Port ExpressCard SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Card Adapter with UASP”. The Sintech’s enclosure uses JMS583 as the bridge adapter’s controller chip, and it did not seem compatible with StarTech’s ExpressCard USB3 adapter that is based on ASM Chipset Renesas uPD720200.So I replaced StarTech’s adapter with “ 5Gbps 2 Port Hidden Inside USB 3.0 HUB to Express Card ExpressCard 54mm Adapter” that uses ASM Chipset Renesas uPD720202, hoping the newer chipset would work with JM583-based bridge adapter.No, it didn’t. So next I replaced Sintech’s JMS583-based bridge adapter with RTL9210-based “ Extractme M.2 NVME to USB Adapter, Upgraded RTL9210 Chip M-Key M.2 NGFF NVME to USB 3.1 Card Reader, 10Gbps High Performance M.2 USB Adapter”. And it worked across XP/Vista/Win7/Win10.However, the SSD using this RTL9210-based adapter would go sleep after a short period of inactivity and change to USB2 transfer speeds after waking up from sleep, until it was unplugged from and re-plugged into the USB3 port. It would also change to USB2 speeds after the computer wakes up from sleep.After upgrading the adapter’s firmware from a download maintained by Plugable Technologies’ website, the SSD no longer goes to sleep due to inactivity. And the label of the WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe Internal SSD (i.e. WDS100T2B0C), rather than that of the RTL9210-based adapter, is now passed through from the adapter to the computer, and it is visible in Device Manager -> Disk Drivers.During idle, the RTL9210-based bridge adapter remains much cooler than JMS583-based adapter, whereas short-duration performance benchmarks are similar to each other. In long-duration performance tests, however, the former is able to sustain high throughputs, while the latter would throttle in the mid of large file transfer (e.g. 50GB) to avoid overheat.

No problems so far.

I bought this for my Dell Optiplex Desktop and i must say this is one of the best and cheapest upgrades that can be done on a laptop or desktop. I know a lot of people will have questions about SSD's. So i will try to explain things a bit.There are basically 3 types of SSD- 2.5 inch SATA (SATA Interface)- M2 - MSATA- M2 - NVMEBut what's the difference ?Now you might have noticed i have written M2 type two times. That's the catch. They look similar but perform entirely differently. MSATA sticks uses the same communication channels as the 2.5 inch SATA drive. The maximum speeds that can be attained on MSATA is around 550 MBPS.But in NVME you can get close to 2000MBPS or even as high as 3000 MBPS. Many people are unaware of this factor and end up buying M2 MSATA or 2.5" Sata SSDs. You should always go for a NVME based one, if your Motherboard supports it. NVME works on actual PCIE bus and not SATA lines. WD Blue series also comes in 3 variants mentioned above. The MSATA and NVME sticks looks very similar, except that MSATA has 2 cuts (M key) and NVME has only 1(b key). So before you buy just check your M2 slot how it looks. If it has only 1 cut, it must support NVME, go for the NVME variant.Performance and disk sizeI bought the 250 GB variant and what i get is 1800 MBPS Read and 900 MBPS Write for Sequential read. There is a catch there also. If you buy the higher GB variants, you can get double this write speed. That means 1500 MBPS on 512 GB and 1600 MBPS on 1 TB version. Read speeds are more or less same.How SSDs make the system fast?Many people follow the logic that upgrading RAM is the best way to upgrade your system. But No. If you replace your hard disk, it can actually act as RAM (Page file or SWAP) as well as your internal memory. A lot of new laptops with SSD come nowadays with just 4GB RAM. Still they are fast. Now, how it works ? SSD comes with a considerable amount of transfer speed, especially for small files. Hard disks are really really slow when it comes to small tiny files, average 4K read speeds of hard disks are 3 or 4 MBPS, whole for SSD its 200 to 300 MBPS.Which is like a 100 times faster. Most of the system operations read/write small files, which makes harddisks sluggish. Forget about the 1800 MBPS Sequential speed for large files. That's yet another factor.Which size to choose ?I would higjhly recommend you to go for 512 or 1 TB as it has double Write speeds of 250 GB version.How to install ?It's very easy. But be careful, use a rubber gloves to prevent ESD. Slide in the Stick to the slot. It will rest at a 30 degree angle to the board. Now you need to insert the screws to fix it in right position.Before you buy.. Make sure that your board supports NVME. Check the user manual. Also check the slot and see it has only 1 cut. Not twoHow much is the real world results ?I use this on my office desktop. My Linux OS which used to take 1 minute to boot now takes 10 seconds. And earlier it took 6 minutes for my Android studio projects to be build and now its reduced to 1 minute, which is like 5-6 times faster. This much boost is obtained because my Desktop is i7 and can process too much data. So if you have a good processor you also can obtain similar results.I know my review was bit lengthy, but i hope you found it helpful!!

OK, so at the price I paid for this (£176 in Aug 2021) it was a good value SSD with respectable performance.**HOWEVER**Since I got this drive, it has come out in the tech news that WD quietly downgraded the specs, and so the drive you buy may well not be the same device as the one that has been reviewed positively. Google "SN550 Downgrade" to see what I mean.Having said that, if you're using this drive for something that isn't generating huge amounts of 4k content, it's still a good deal. As it happens, I have one of the original-spec items, but these sort of corporate shenanigans do grate somewhat...

I have lenovo laptop with 1TB HDD and I bought this to boot windows faster. Performance is amazing from this. Earlier it used to take 4-5 minutes to boot laptop, now it take less than a minute. WD gives 5 years warranty and at this price it's great. Haven't checked read/write speeds but it feels way faster and that's it.P.S. Use "Macrium reflect" free software to clone your HDD to SSD if you want to boot windows from SSD without losing any data.

I really like WD's products and have found them to be very reliable so I bought one of their SN550 Blue M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs which I knew would give a hugely significant performance boost (see images for comparison: before and after) as before I had a 1TB WD HDD which came with my Dell Inspiron 5570. The storage capacity (250GB) of this new SSD is perfect for my needs as I don't store any of my personal data on it (it is purely for the operating system and programs alone). I use the original 1TB WD HDD that came with my laptop for all of my personal data as it has a 2.5" HDD bay and also an M.2 slot so I can have dual drives. You can opt for a bigger version of this model such as 500GB or 1TB if you require more space.This was incredibly easy to install, all I had to do was remove the back cover of my laptop, then locate the M.2 drive bay slot, insert the drive into the slot the correct way around and then screw the screw into the other end to secure it (my laptop came with this screw already inside, depending on your make and model, you may need to purchase a screw as well).You can then either clone your disk (copy everything that was on the pervious disk you used) using software such as Macrium Reflect (free for home use) or Acronis True Image (30-day free trial) or if you're like me and want a complete fresh start you can install Windows 10 with a bootable USB drive which you can create using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool on their website. Once you've installed Windows 10, it should automatically activate as your product key stays with the computer even if just some of the components are replaced such as the RAM and SSD.Overall, I would highly recommend this SN550 Blue M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD from WD as it offers great performance for a reasonable price. Upgrading your memory and SSD are the two most significant upgrades you can make to your laptop/PC to improve performance and efficiency.

Volevo un NVME per una MB Z97 ed in buona sostanza il prezzo e la nomea WD mi hanno fatto scegliere questo componente. Male.Nulla a che fare con la concorrenza, ad esempio Sabrent o Samsung (dispositivi per i quali ho esperienza diretta). Provato su almeno 3 Motherboard (Asus, Giga e MSI), sia sullo slot PCIE (gen3) con l'adattatore che direttamente sul connettore M.2: i risultati sono sorprendentemente deludenti.Certo, i test dicono altro. Si, certo, usando gli N programmi di benchmark (CrystalDiskMark e Co&) e tutto schizza come dichiarato ...oltre 2GB movimentando file corposi, vi farà contenti... ma nella REALTA' non è cosi.La prova diretta e per la quale mettiamo i nostri soldi è l'esempio sul campo. Nella quotidianità. Ad esempio, se copiate filmati anche piccoli di 5 GB all'interno del Nvme, ...non appena si satura il buffer di W$ ed i suoi relativi strati sottostanti, a circa a metà dell'operazione, il transfer rate scende penosamente a 200Mb. Non una buona scelta per chi, ogni tanto, ci vuole anche "scrivere" dentro questi sbilanciatissi dispositivi. Se ho tempo mostrerò in allegato i risultati, per ora rimango deluso cosi. Aggiungo: la copia dello stesso film su un SSD SATA finiva prima....Inoltre, il signor SN550 è arrivato con un firmware vecchio, ma anche con il nuovo i risultati sono sempre quelli.Bella e ben fatta, comunque, l'applicazione per aggiornare e monitorare l'utilizzo del nvme.Non lo rimando indietro solo perché mi sono ripromesso nel futuro di leggere BENE tutte le caratteristiche ed il funzionamento di questi sinistri stick: sicuramente, se c'è un prezzo diverso tra i vari modelli e marche significa che ci sarà un motivo.Spero di essere stato utile.