Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - PCIe Gen 4.0, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS100T4B0E [New Generation]

Performs perfectly. Easy to install. Transfers very fast. Great value. Very compatible with my gaming PC. I absolutely love it.

I wanted a reliable, fast ssd for a thunderbolt 4/usb4 enclosure. After much research, I decided on this ssd. Yes, it's not the fastest ssd, and not the latest PCIe5. However, it delivers write/read speeds in excess of the bandwidth limitations. I'm getting write speeds of over 2775MB/s and read of over 2850MB/s. And, with the abundant hybrid cache, the sustained writes don't seem to recede. Super fast, with less temperature/power issues (than the top of the line, newer ssd cards). It delivers the same throughput as the newer, faster cards (which would max out at about the same level, due to the bandwidth limits). Saved some money, which is always a welcomed feature. In the near future, I'll spend the savings on a faster card (probably the WD SN850X) when I purchase a thunderbolt 5 enclosure. Very pleased with the specs and real world performance of this ssd. Five stars, definitely.

Western Digital Blue SN580 NVMe SSD 1TB Review I have a 10-year-old computer running Windows 10. The system drive has been upgraded from a mechanical hard drive to a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD. This really increased the boot-up speed and functioning of the computer. For the computer I was installing the SN580 NVMe SSD into, I had to purchase a M.2 NVMe PCI-E adapter because my 10-year-old computer does not have a M.2 slot. It does have an available PCI Express x16 (Gen 2.0) slot. The adapter I bought is backward compatible to Gen2.0. The NVMe SSD can only be used as a secondary drive in the computer I was installing it in because the computer’s BIOS will not boot from PCI-E. If the computer’s BIOS could boot from PCI-E I would have cloned the SATA SSD and made the NVMe SSD the system drive. INSTALLATION 1) After connecting the NVMe to your computer (remember, typically, the card is inserted into the slot at an angle and then gently pressed down and secured with a screw). 2) Power on the computer and go to Disk Management (Click the Microsoft logo in the lower left of the screen and type “Disk Management”.) 3) A dialog box will ask you to initialize the drive. Do so. 4) Locate the new SSD in the disk drive section. In the Unallocated section, right click and format the drive. After it’s complete, close Disk Management window and you’re new SSD should be ready to use. RESULTS In my situation, I connected the WD SN580 to the computer’s PCI-E X16 slot using an adapter. I was blown away at the read/write speeds compared to the Crucial MX500 SATA SSD (being used as the System drive). The NVMe SSD, using PCI-E adapter, had tremendous speed. For comparison, here are the CrystalDiskMark results for the two drives installed in the computer: Read Write Crucial MX500 SATA SSD: 285.1. 267.6 WD Blue SN580 NVMe: 3,533.3 3,395.5 Although not exactly a fair comparison because the two drives use different technologies, upgrading to an NVMe SSD in my situation was the right choice. FINAL THOUGHTS Installation was straightforward. The Western Digital SN580 NVMe 1TB SSD performed extremely well and has a very good price point. Also, Western Digital, at the company’s website, provides Acronis cloning software free of charge and no registration is required. I recommend this product.

Purchased about 1year ago and its been working great. Read/Write times are good and haven't had any hickups. I'm not sure it it's worth 4x the price I paid last year, but c'est la vie.

I installed the WD Blue SN580 1TB NVMe drive in my PC, and it’s been working flawlessly. The installation was simple, and the system recognized it right away. Boot times and file transfers are noticeably faster compared to my old drive. It feels like my computer got a big performance boost. Solid product that does exactly what I needed.

Although I have not had this SSD for long it has booted several times. I have had some of these WD Blue drives not boot after the operating system was installed. (To be fare I was 0 for 3 from another SSD manufacturer, while five 256GB WD drives continue to give satisfactory performance.) It is my opinion the product line needs to have better quality control. That said the drives that worked are providing nice performance. If the company could improve the overall quality of the product line I would solely buy their SSD products. Meanwhile I feel anxious each time I boot after installing the OS.

I use this hard drive for all my PC gaming, fast, reliable. No issues since I got it.

I caught this on a great deal and it's been nothing short of fantastic. At the price I got it for, 4TB of fast storage can't be beat! Installation is always easy with M.2 drives and it's been holding all of my games. My understanding is that this wouldn't make a great OS drive, but for any type of basic storage, it's more than sufficient. Coming from a 1TB drive, I'm so happy that I don't have to keep deleting games to make room for new ones! I used this with both Windows and Linux operating systems without any issues.