WD Blue SN570 2TB High-Performance M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
WD Blue SN570 2TB High-Performance M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, with up to 3500MB/s read speed
Spark Imagination—Inspire Creativity
NVMe Technology to Empower Creators
Stay in the moment and create beyond your expectations with the WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD. This powerful internal drive delivers up to 5X the speed of our best SATA SSDs so you can let your imagination flow and worry less about PC lag or load times.
WD Blue SN570
Stay in the Moment
Keep your imagination flowing as you create faster while maintaining low power consumption. With read speeds up to 3,500 MB/s(2) (500GB – 1TB) models), your system can run up to 5X faster than our best SATA SSDs so you can stay in your creative moment.
Comparison table
 WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD |  WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD |  WD_Black SN750 SE SSD |  WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD | |
| Capacity | Up to 2TB | Up to 8TB | Up to 1TB | Up to 2TB |
| Interface PCIe | Gen 3×4 NVMe | Gen 3×4 NVMe | Gen 3×4 NVMe | Gen 4×4 NVMe |
| Form factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | Up to 3,500 MB/s | Up to 2,600 MB/s | Up to 3,470 MB/s | Up to 7,000 MB/s |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | Up to 3,300 MB/s | Up to 3,300 MB/s | Up to 3,500 MB/s | Up to 7,000 MB/s |
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(2) 1 MB/s = 1 million bytes per second. Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.
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| Weight: | 6.35 g |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 2.21 x 0.24 cm; 6.35 Grams |
| Brand: | Western Digital |
| Model: | WDS200T3B0C |
| Colour: | Blue |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | WD – SSD CONSUMER |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 2.21 x 0.24 cm; 6.35 Grams |
very good SSD for gamers in music producers and video, editors
Fast, cheap and reliable. What’s not to like? 2TB makes this a lovely choice for stashing the games library on.
It has good read performance but fairly poor write performance, but it still performs better than a normal SSD drive so a reasonable buy for the price.
If you have a PCIE 3 motherboard, this is a decent SSD for it. It’s nice and quick, although loading times for stuff I had on a SSD half the speed do not load twice as fast now. Also there is no noticeable difference in OS responsiveness or boot times, but 1TB of gaming storage for 50 is pretty good and I couldn’t see a faster SSD for the same price range.
Well worth the money and I now have loads of free space for all those games that one day will stop working on my Mac 🙂
We be buying more
Speeds are good and in all honesty , don’t really need faster speed m.2 nvme .Has a 5 year warranty unlike some cheaper drives and some pricier only have a 3 year . Happy to recommend , Just shop around for best prices
As i only have one NVMe slot i needed to clone the existing old NVMe boot disk.
WD offer Acronis free which can be downloaded from their www site.
This made cloning the existing boot disk easy using an external usb caddy also purchased from amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BJ25HQJQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Fitting the NVMe was easy and the whole swap out including cloning was done inside an hour.
Faster boot than the old drive and all good so far. Recommended.
This WD SN570 1tb drive works floorless. i installed it in the acasis tbu401e enclosure, plugged it in and initialised the disk. created the partition and reached close to 3000mbps read and write speeds in Chrystal-disk-mark.
WD please add one to the box. It will cost pennies
It’s never let me down and as with all nvme drives installation is extremely simple.
Needed more room as my SSD was full, so figured it was a good time to get an NVMe. This is the first WD product I purchased as all my other storage devices have been other competitors, but I purchased WD this time due to pricing reasons.
I’m happy with the product, I have had no problems with it and it was super simple to install. On a basic level, if you just want an NVMe that works quickly for gaming or other activities, I recommend this product, but I can’t comment on any advanced or in-depth read/write speeds as I’m simply not bothered by them and this is fast enough for me.
NVMes are great, much prefer this over the larger SSDs.
I upgraded a Late 2014 MacMini (1.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 A1347), and what a difference, I thought the Mac was past it’s usefulness and I had been using it solely as a Plex server, but as my MacBook Pro is in for repair with Apple, I needed to use it for a week or so, but the old HDD was painfully slow (60MBs read write speeds) it would take almost 4 mins to boot up and every click was taking over 20 secs to react!
With this card installed the MacMini responds instantly like my MaBookPro, it’s had a whole new lease of life, I’m truly amazed, boots macOS Monterey in under a minute. I’m currently getting 700MBs read and writes using this card (probably the maximum the MacMini can handle), but when that reaches it’s end of life I’ll reuse this card in an external Thunderbolt enclosure
If you’re looking to do the same with an old Mac Mini you’ll need one of these as well.
M.2 NGFF M-Key NVME SSD Converter Card Adapter for 2014 Mac Mini A1347
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08L3CJY94/
(NB: the screwdriver supplied with that adapter card won’t work, you need a Torx 6 Security head, it comes with a Torx 6 NON Security head!).
there’s plenty of videos online explaining how to do the upgrade, it’s really easy, it will take 15mins tops. Then reboot holding down the Command R (recovery mode). open disk utility format the card, then install macOS… or linux or windows etc
Just for some background, the machine I fitted this too is an MSI GE66-10UG Raider, which by default has 1TB of storage. The pre-installed drive is also a WD, but it’s an SN730 (which is basically the same drive as a Black SN750, but an OEM model number), but whilst 1TB might seem like quite a lot, by modern day standards it isn’t. Some Steam games can be as much as 100GB each and as a YouTuber, video files can be HUGE! So I basically just wanted a drive for mass storage purposes.
All I use this for mostly is to store my Videos folder, other games (such as slightly older non-Steam games, emulators and roms) and somewhere for recording apps, such as Elgato and OBS to record to. This drive ticked all of those boxes for me. In fact, for that use, it’s probably overkill. The pre-installed drive (SN730) I will continue to use my Windows installation, programs, Steam games and personal files, such as documents.
Of course, if you want to use this drive for an OS Installation, it’s still probably more than sufficient, given the read and write speeds in the attached image. And of course, it’ll blow any SATA based SSD out of the water, so remember that!
Installation was very easy! The hardest part is accessing the M.2 slot, and that is it. My laptop was quite a pain to open up and get into, but that shouldn’t be the case for most other laptops and especially desktop machines. One thing I would love to note is, I installed this “as is”, and didn’t bother to do anything with thermal pads or a heatsink and it runs at similar temperatures, if not quite a bit cooler in some circumstances than the SN730. I’m more than sure this will last. After all, this drive is designed to be budget friendly, easy to install and cool running and it does indeed excel at all of those.
So overall, I can strongly recommend this drive. Especially being more than sufficient for mass storage, if there is nowhere to put a 2.5″ drive, like pretty much all of the new MSI laptops don’t. And also as a main drive too. Unless perhaps you’re building a super high-end rig. But still, if you are looking to save some cost somewhere, this is a very good answer and will suffice greatly.
TL;DR: If you’re looking for a fast storage drive for exceptional value… JUST BUY THIS ONE!!!
So after a bit of investigation I decided to get this 1TB WD blue drive.
Installation in theory is pretty simple – you just plug the drive into the slot and… it just sticks up… turns out you need to rest the drive on a special M2 sized nut which needs to be screw into the motherbord. a tiny bolt then needs to pinch the drive into position…
However searching around, I couldn’t find any such fittings in the SSD packaging box. With full panic, I eventually found that the PC I’d bought pre-built had a couple of spare ones in a bag.
So be aware – NO M2 FITTINGS INCLUDED – you need to ensure you have your own, or buy some.
Once in place, I fired up the PC, partititioned the new disk and it’s ready to go. I copied my Virtual machines over off the system drive and everything works just perfectly.
The drive is fast compared to what I’m used to (you can see the 200+ MB write speed, but that’ll be bottlenecked by the Maxtor SATA SSD it’s copying from).
At 84, these NVME SSDs are just getting cheaper and cheaper, and represent great value for what you get in terms of performance.
So initial impressions, I’m very impressed full recommendation from me!
I will update this review over time should there be any significant developments.
Oh one other thing, I’ve stuck a heatsink onto it (I’ll review that separately).
Very easy to install these little drives & you don’t really require any IT skills to do so… Just make sure to earth yourself so as to discharge any static electricity that may have built up in you before handling components such as these & you’ll be fine 😉
This WD Blue Nvme does everything it’s claimed & has been performing without issues for about a month after installing it.
Average read/ write speeds with tests resulted in it matching it’s advertised speeds.
So once everything is factored in I think I made a wise choice, having chosen it to be a 2nd HD in a gaming laptop for storage of games from Steam, Origin & UPlay etc…
It’s cheaper than the Corsair or Crucial alternatives & I would think as reliable if not more so than those 2 aforementioned competitors & their more expensive options available from them.
I’ve bought many a Western Digital hard drive over my many yrs of PC use be it gaming or business & TBH I can’t recall ever having 1 WD die on me unlike many other brands namely Seagates.
So to sum up ;
Pros : Decent speeds reads & writes, built well (as all WD drives usually are) & by far the best Pro is it’s cheap price !
Cons : Won’t break any read or write speed tests if I’m being ultra ultra picky but I knew this going into the purchase so perhaps I’m being too harsh saying this is a Con but thought I’d try at least put in 1 thing in the Con section 😉
Best 2TB decent quality bang per buck NVme currently available IMHO 😉
This 1TB NVMe drive is blazingly fast due to its SSD nature, has the excellent m.2 form factor that allows it to sit on your motherboard without any more cables to manage or bays to screw into, and comes in at a cool 87. That’s only a 10% markup over a SATA 2.5″ SSD I got from a few years ago… which had QUARTER the capacity this one does.
It then becomes hard to make an argument against getting this drive, even the NVMe version as for 5 over the SATA one… well, you just might as well, even if its only advantage is showing off larger numbers in benchmarks. It’s important to note though that this is PCIe Gen 3, so even in a Gen 4 slot you will still be getting Gen 3 speeds. This isn’t much of a problem currently, but may end up being one for gaming in some years from now if Direct Storage technology makes its way to PC. Those Gen 4 drives cost a pretty penny extra, however, so given that the future is not indeed today, this is the drive I would recommend to anyone looking for a high capacity SSD in 2021.
I went down the external USB enclosure route because I could not for love nor money work out if my motherboard would be able to support this drive as a 2nd SSD and 3rd drive. I currently have installed 1 x 250GB SSD and a 6TB HDD my motherboard is Z390 M Gaming – cf so if anyone out there knows if I could install this in addition to what I have please let me know.
The big question is now if it is worth the money or not, If I was getting those speeds on an internal installation then I would say no, but I have it in an external USB and if truth be known I would of been happy getting 800MB/s so getting a little under 1050MB/s makes me think it really is worth the money.
Overall I would recommend the 1TB version, if the price of the 2TB version drops from what it is and I can install it inside my PC I may opt for that one next, but as of my writing this the 2TB stands at more than double the price of the 1TB.
After seeing how this thing performs I will never build a PC without an SSD again.
Booting takes seconds now compared to my hard drive that sometimes took minutes. The games that I’ve played after installing the SSD that it had the most impact on was Rust and Red Dead Redemption 2. If you play either of them you know how long the loading takes and with Rust’s loading times being painful, But its incredible how quick I load into Rust now.
Installation was pretty simple, but confused me at first and my monster of a CPU cooler got in the way slightly but it wasn’t hard to install at all. I did have a bit of a rocky time trying to clone my hard drive onto the SSD but I still managed to do that successfully and it was my first time installing an SSD and using cloning software (which has nothing to do with the product but thought I’d mention just in case you were planning on doing the same thing) so I learnt a lot for when I inevitably do this again in a new build .
Great product, incredibly happy with the results, would recommend to anyone who has an M.2 slot and wants faster loading times.
Old review:
This is a really good little budget NVMe SSD. It’s single sided so it should work with enclosures or laptop slots that have that restriction and more importantly performance is great.
The controller is an in house WD design that uses HMB (a small 64MB chunk of your system RAM) for mapping tables and the NAND used is 96 Layer Toshiba/Sandisk BiCS4 TLC, rated for 600TBW. The SN550 also seems to be thermally optimized by keeping the NAND package further away from the controller, which seems to do the trick since I didn’t notice any thermal throttling issues thus far.
Like all SSDs, write performance will drop if you hammer it with writes, but not as drastically as some of the others that I’ve had. Once you write 10~20GB of data to it and the uSLC cache gets filled, the drive will drop to a very respectable direct to TLC write speed of 850~900MB/s (for reference, a Crucial P1 1TB will drop to 120~200MB/s in a similar scenario). After a small idle period the uSLC cache should be freed up again to allow it to reach the rated write speeds again.
I’ve only managed to test it via an NVMe to PCIe X4 adapter that was stuck in a PCIe gen 2 slot, so I was limited by the interface, but the SN550 still shined in AS SSD (screenshot attached).
Overall I really can’t fault it, it’s a great little NVMe for the price.
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.