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 got this one for a gaming laptop that I bought last year (hp omen), which had like 250gbs on the main hard drive. It changed everything about this laptop! 1Tb is a huge difference.I had someone help me copy the system into the new hard drive so that I don't have to install everything from scratch

The price and the performance is good. Apparently, on paper, this is better than the Crucial P1 and P2 modules and my Intel 660p.Speeds reach 200MB/s while using it as an external USB storage device (UGREEN NVME M ENCLOSURE). So far, no complaints in any context. I do recommend this.

I got my flight sim load times, with its bajillion addons, down from a terrible 10-15 mins on a USB HDD to about 30 seconds.These things have a shelf life, but the disk management software gives you a clear status update so you know when to migrate things.These days it's best to go for the 1tb mark. Any less fills up too fast, any more gets exponentially more expensive.

Delivered as promised. Good product. One issue, I faced to clone the OS from the provided HDD. Used many softwares, but failed to boot. And remind you, it was all done by an IT expert. Finally after many tries, one software worked and now working great. Really fast booting. Certainly a good product. I installed it on a brand new Dell optiplex 3080MT.

read and write is more than 1100

One of the best and cheap budget nvme’s made my computer 10x faster than a hddAt first i thought it’s small to fit in my nvme slot but it worked out well

kind of my fault, reading and writing speed is slow for my application.

Good price and quality

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...

Purchased this drive for a new gaming build based around the Ryzen 5 3600x/Asus ROG X570 Strix Gaming-F. Easy to physically install. After completing build used a Windows 10 USB drive to install the OS; the WD SN 550 was recognised straight away, W10 installed and up and running within 10 mins. No problems whatsoever.For daily use, system boots into W10 within 10 seconds, I can be logged in to Steam and gaming ina around the same amount of time.Game loads and in-game save loads are negligible time wise. Cannot recommend this drive enough if you're running a gaming rig.

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.