Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C

The WD Blue SN550 NVMe is very easy to install. Just make sure that it is compatible with your mother board and has the same key . This Model has an M.2 2280 interface. Also make sure the motherboard has the little screw needed to hold the SSD it in place on the opossite side of the connector. Slide the SN550 it in in a little slanted position in the motherboards M.2 Socket 3 until it clicks in palce; thne hold it down while you screw gently in place in the opposite side. I used it to install Windows 10 on it (latest version of windows have the device driver for use during installation, or you can download the latest version of Intel Rapid Storage drivers and have it on a thum drive so you can use it during the Windows installation process (when it presents you with the available recognized drives in your PC). You need to download the WD SSD DAshboard Software after you finish installing windows and make sure all your drivers (Device Administration) are up to date. Youl need it to monitor the disk health, performance and tweakings like Trim, as well as to get notifications of the SN550 firmware.

Solid budget SSD, no complaints

The disk has stopped working and showing SMART errors. cant load Operating System . will have to buy new one. stopped working within one month.....

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:

Value for money product, I used it in i3 11th gen based laptop, the stock HDD was an 1 TB HDD which was bottle necking the system. Installed this drive and installed windows on it, windows installation itself was pretty quick. Since then, an average laptop started feeling like a flagship device.

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Acquistato per essere inserito in un notebook Dell. Dopo ore di ricerche, recensioni e comparative ho deciso di prenderlo ed effettivamente la resa è notevole. Installato accanto ad un hard disk da 1 Tb, ho trasferito il sistema operativo (WD fornisce sul sito anche un software adatto allo scopo) su di lui ed il portatile si è trasformato, soprattutto nelle fasi di accensione e spegnimento, ma anche nelluso quotidiano la differenza si vede. Avevo perplessità sul calore sviluppato dallhard disk, soprattutto a causa degli spazi ristretti e della scarsa circolazione di aria in un notebook. Sono rimasto felicemente sorpreso, anche con carichi di lavoro pesanti lhard disk si mantiene lontano da temperature critiche.

read write rates are awesome.

Really great products.

Without all the technical jargon I could waffle on about, all I will say is, if you have an empty NVME slot in your laptop fit one of these. Lightening fast. Far quicker than the SSD it replaced. Laptop boots in a few seconds. These drives are so affordable and well worth the expense. Mechanical HDDs now belong on the Ark!