WD_BLACK SN750 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Gaming SSD up
WD_BLACK SN750 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Gaming SSD up to 3430 MB/s read speed
| Weight: | 7.71 g |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 2.2 x 0.24 cm; 7.71 Grams |
| Brand: | Western Digital |
| Model: | WDS100T3X0C |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Western Digital |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 2.2 x 0.24 cm; 7.71 Grams |
Bought for a laptop (Dell 5415) in November 2021 for 75.99.
I didn’t need a Gen 4 but preferred one with DRAM cache. This was easy to fit and has been no trouble at all.
Can’t go wrong with the speed and deal at the time.
The drive is plenty fast and loads up games and whatever you put on it really quickly. It is a solid well working drive that get everything done insanly fast. Perfect for people wanting an fast m.2 drive with pcie gen 4 speeds.
Very good quality product, had it over a year and i’m happy with it, definitely buying it agai
WD do it again, great drive that was extremely easy to install. I would advise if your motherboard does not have built in heat control for M.2 drives then I would say you would definitely need to get one also.
Fantastic speeds on both read and write, 16xpcie on my 590 rog strix board. Its actually a nice looking drive but I can’t see it!
The drive was very well built, delighted with delivery as there was zero damage to the box.
I use this for gaming quiet often and it works flawlessly for load times and transferring files across drives. I have been using this for months now and I don’t know why I didn’t get this years ago.
I had bought this for 70 GBP (about $85 USD at the time) and for that price, is an absolute steal.
Once I found a screwdriver that could get into the available space it literally took two minutes.
Performance is faster than older sata ssd units, but not as fast as the wd850 series. It is great for use as a pc boot drive, but NOT fast enough for a PS5.
For the price it’s a good piece of kit and is working well as a boot drive. Yes 1tb is overkill, but it means I won’t have to clear down the files often!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Macbook-Convert-Adapter-Upgraded-2013-2017/dp/B08HPGZL8S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1G1T1I8OQKTN&keywords=M.2+NVME+Macbook+SSD+Convert+Adapter+for+Upgraded+MacBook+Air+Pro+Retina+Mid+2013-2017%2C+AHCI+SSD+Upgrad&qid=1656328297&sprefix=m.2+nvme+macbook+ssd+convert+adapter+for+upgraded+macbook+air+pro+retina+mid+2013-2017+ahci+ssd+upgrad%2Caps%2C64&sr=8-1
once installed press ALT + CMD +R to start up in internet recovery mode and download the latest Mac OS.
use disk utility to format the drive to APFS and then let it install Monterey.
Job done.
Like:
– Easy to install and clone drive
– Runs cool
– Reliable
Dislike:
– None
Only good part about the 2042 version of the SSD is the SSD and a decent price, the game is just like those tacked on antivirus software when you buy a new laptop.
Overall well worth the buy and brilliant speeds to boot
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3492.463 MB/s [ 3330.7 IOPS] < 2399.79 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2462.894 MB/s [ 2348.8 IOPS] < 425.54 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 638.605 MB/s [ 155909.4 IOPS] < 198.69 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 50.317 MB/s [ 12284.4 IOPS] < 81.27 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 2605.529 MB/s [ 2484.8 IOPS] < 3212.08 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 2606.547 MB/s [ 2485.8 IOPS] < 401.83 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 422.183 MB/s [ 103072.0 IOPS] < 310.01 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 206.255 MB/s [ 50355.2 IOPS] < 19.73 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x1) [H: 40% (186/466GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2022/04/26 12:37:58
OS: Windows 11 Professional [10.0 Build 22000] (x64)
Will def use agai
As always it’s the price that makes or breaks it and 45 was very good.
Very happy with this purchase. This is the cheapest PS5 compatible nvme drive(Make sure to buy pcie 4 version 🙂 . Bought for PS4 games so internal memory will stay for PS5 games but still manage to work with current PS5 games with no problems. Highly recommend A+++
Overall I am very happy I purchased this and would recommend if you are thinking of upgrading your storage
Read speads are about 3300mb on the ps5 so is under what they recommend but after watching a digital foundry video all the os5 only games store and play off the m.2 drive with minimal and negligible time differences.
I also sold the battlefield code before release so after the deal and the sale I got 500gb of ps5 storage for 35 quid so I’m very happy
2nd image, EXACTLY the same WD Black SN750 500Gb on a Startech X4 PCIe to M.2 PCIe SSD adapter attached to an older GA-970A-DS3 running an AMD Athlon 2 X3 455.
Of course it’s SLOWER when running on older tech / versions of PCIe
This thing FLIES – recommended
Windows 11 Home
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
WD Black SN750 500GB High-Performance NVMe Internal Gaming SSD
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 3.50GHz
GeForce GTX 1050 with 2GB GDDR5
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
Amazing! Simply the best performance boost I’ve ever seen.
Wish they would include the screw to hold the drive in place. On my MB (Asus) they have covers over the drives and the screw(s) are longer than normal to accomodate this, so when I fitted the WD drive with the fitted heatsink, I couldn’t use the MB screw because it was too long. However, overcome this snag by using several very small rubber washers and they seem to be doing the job.
So far i have tried it with Miles Morales at performance and fidelity modes and God of War, and could tell no difference when playing from the PS5’s internal SSD.
Needs a heatsink though.
While the latter doesn’t sound all that impressive, I have a 10TB WD Black internal mechanical S-ATA drive for archiving purposes, and that manages speeds of 196MB/s for sequential read/writes, and speeds of 4MB/s for random 4K read/writes.
There are faster PCIe Gen4 NVME drives out on the market right now but, if your motherboard doesn’t support that interface type, you’ll be paying a premium for speeds that your PC won’t be capable of.
Before due to my write speeds being crippled to about 60MB/s pretty much the same as a mechanical hard drive! Game installs were considerably slower as the game would’ve been downloaded however, it would always be waiting on the hard drive to write the download to the disk due to the uncompression required for many modern games. However, now it’s night and day and am now limited by my internet connection and no longer the other way round.
I’d definitely recommend this SSD to anybody looking for a lightning fast SSD with performance that’ll blow you away – however, it’s considerably more expensive than other alternatives – however, it’s likely considerably better quality, more performant and manufactured by a more respectable brand! I would definitely recommend paying the little extra to have 500gb over 250gb as you’ll find once you’ve installed windows and a couple of programs you’re close to 80% full – so make the additional leap and get the 500gb so you don’t have to hot swap applications whenever you want to use one that isn’t installed – that was also the other mistake that I made when buying my Kingston A400.
Battlefield 2042 PC standard edition came with it inside the box with a working code, read the instructions on the card when redeeming it though
The packaging protects the drive well and includes a basic installation guide and warranty paperwork. The heatshield is attached but can be unscrewed. No mounting screws and supports included but I had these from a motherboard screw-set. (Maybe that’s normal I’m unsure).
Fits well on my Msi B450 board sitting just above the graphics card. Attached standoff in longest position, slid into M2 slot and screwed into standoff. Inserted a Windows 10 iso in USB, installer detected M2 drive and had windows up and running in under five minutes (not including all the updates). An SSD would be more like 20 minutes and a HDD more like 1 hour.
I do computer repairs and sell used gaming pc’s or custom orders, I will recommend M2 to everyone if their motherboard allows now, especially as similarly priced to SSD and has big speed improvements
I think this is definitely the future of storage and ill be buying a 1TB or larger for storage soon as game loading times are almost zero now (my build is Ryzen 5 3600. 8GB DDR4, 1650 4GB VENTUS OC, M2 WD Black 500GB) in Corsair 280X case
Did some research on a good fast SSD to give the laptop some life.
Brought this, was installed in like 2 minutes, and the very laptop i’m writing this on was alive and installing shortly afterwards.
This laptop shows no load times for anything, although i’ve not done anything massively intensive on it yet. Very happy compared to a similar spec HDD with an old 2.5″ HDD in it, which feels far slower.
Using mine with a Gigabyte 990 mobo and it works a treat. Crytal Mark showing excellent read/write speeds way above the Samsung M2 Evo it replaced. Well happy !
the result was not as expected, the New device operates at the speed of the old device, so either its not that fast or the original was a lot faster than advertised. either way, its in its working and i have more space
Slight problem installing but that was due to my motherboard. Just needed a stand off screw to give a few mm extra clearance, otherwise it’s very simple to install.
I run up to 25 VMs simultaneously, with two thirds of them hosted on this
single drive. The machines run absolutely beautifully from this drive, with six guys performing major software installation and configuration on 12 Windows server VM’s simultaneously.
There is just no slowdown with this thing, it absolutely rocks! I can literally start 16 VMs Simultaneously (mix of server 2016/2019, and SUSE Linux) from this SSD, and they are all quick to boot, and really responsive thereafter!
I bought the PCIE BE version without heatsink, as my server only has. PCIE V3 bus, and I fitted a simple M.2 low-profile Aluminium finned heatsink myself, which instantly brought under-load temperatures down by 15 degrees. These heatsinks were about 8 for a pack of four from Amazon, complete with adhesive pads.
But in general use you will find it hard to tell a difference over a normal ssd.
If u have an old hdd then get 1 but if ubhave a ssd then maybe not worth upgrading.
It’s simple to set up and operate, and there’s no need to utilize WD’s software. The heatsink is great value if you have an older or cheaper motherboard without heatsink covers and looks stylish!
I got very close to the advertised read and write speeds using CrystalDiskMark, the write speed looks a bit lower than the advertised speed but that could be due to my old i7 6700K, Z170A motherboard/chipset or something else but I am more than happy with the speeds shown!
I don’t recommend 250gb as after windows and normal program installs and a single game (70gb) I had 200gb remaining from 500gb so I highly recommend getting the 500gb as 250gb just won’t be enough unless you ONLY want windows installed and basic programs.
And to the guys complaining about the screw….really? Complaining about buying the screw after a purchase like this? Do you try to sell the cardboard of the toiletpaper as well?
But the SSD drive is very good, boots my computer in no time, lasts about 5 seconds and I’m already on my desktop.
I recommend it for any board that supports an M.2 slot.
and followed the instructions written in this adaptor. With careful movements, you can replace the disk and install again your Mac Os from an external USB disk. The WD 1T SSD is fantastic, with no signs of rising temperatures in demanding use (I read this was the case in a previous model of WD). At an excellent price, I think this is the best solution for your Macbook Pro, a real bargain. Very pleased.
I have two more WD drives: a WD Blue for media and another WD, Black model, for games.
I could’ve gone with the Samsung NVME, but this one was slightly cheaper and it came with a heat sink.
Now I can view and manage all of my drives with a single app, which is a bonus.
I’ve not done any benchmarks, but the drive feels faster than an SSD.
Windows loads faster from a cold boot and apps in general are a bit snappier than when I was using my old SSD.
Took all of 10 mins to install WD Acronis imaging software and clone my old SSD with no experience of the software and it is a straight clone in every respect.
The speeds are as advertised, the caveat being many of those Crystal Disk mark benches screencapped on Amazon are using different settings so if youre scratching your head wondering why they have XY and Z speeds this is most likely the reason.
Personally I see no difference between this and my old SSD, I dont notice the improvements enough to recommend it as a straight upgrade over SATA SSDs so its something to consider. The service from amazon was excellent.
Most people recommend the samsung ssd for apple but I used this one as it was a bit cheaper but similar specs. I couldn’t be more satisfied and hopefully this review will help anyone trying to figure out how to upgrade their MacBook.
But unfortunally i had to return it. The problem was the place where the m.2 sits is right in the spot where my hand rests and because this m.2 ran a idle temps of around 50 degress after a while it was uncomfortable so i had to return it.
But that was the only reason. If you buy this to use on a case or if the location of the m.2 slot on yout laptop is different you will have no problem as this is an amazing product.
This is one of the major factors that contribute to a smooth gaming experience. With high reading and writing speeds that are far cry higher than a conventional ssd, this M.2 is a must.
It is very affordable compared to other brands and WD is a brand to trust based on experience.
i installed this and a samsung evo 960 NVME into the mini itx build i made for my brother and man o man did this mean NO CABLES were needed,if i had to add a normal SSD or HDD there would have just been a mess of cables to deal with
is this a fast drive with imperious read and write sppeds…you bet it is testing the speeds between transfers from this drive to the samsung it impressed me that i could fling a blue ray film from one to the other instantly litteraly in the blink of an eye,(or a mouse click),and vice versa,not only did it manage to transfer a single 3+gb title so quickly but i then tried it with multiple films consisting of about 15-20gb…have never seen storage swap between drives so quickly the green bar just zipped by in seconds
a word of advice though if you are transferring from a USB thumb drive the transfer will only go as fast as the thunb drive will allow…so an old USB 2 drive will still only transfer slowly….my point if you want faster thunb drive transfer speed…update your thumb drives as well
When it comes to gaming, I don’t think there is much to talk about as it made just a slight difference to the performance at games from the Appstore which optimized for Mac, ex. World of Tanks Blitz on mid settings.
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who experienced this but if there are more people encountering the same issues, maybe BUYER, try to look for SAMSUNG SSD’s based on users’ feedback, it is more reliable.
My old SSD can only ever achieve around 550 MB/s at best.
Very happy – no issues what so ever, would recommend.
One minor thing there is no securing screw included, so had to dig out motherboard box and find one, but not really an issue.
My only complaint is it has only 931gb free. Which is disappointingly lower than 1000gb.
This is big enough for windows and all my games that i’m currently playing and i’m always the first one to boot into a level online. Transfer of files within the SSD are immediate and i’ll be looking to purchase another for additional storage later down the line
The performance you gain on a gaming loading screen with NVMe compared to an SATA is <1s. Save your money and get a larger SATA drive.
M.2 socket is great for making a tidy build. You can get SATA SSD with M.2 connections.
I had a lot of issues transferring data from my old SATA drive to this — be careful which adapters you use, because BIOS won’t boot to half of them — but that’s not the fault of the drive. Windows suppliers just need to move on from BIOS…
So in my MSI X470 GAMING PRO motherboard, the only things that wwere installed were the two risers, that look like screws, they look like all you would need, but take one out and look closely at it, it might have a little thread i nthe centre with no screw!
MAKE SURE you know this before you purchase as these do not come with any screws. Unit and paperwork ONLY.
I can suggest you search for m.2 screw or something on ebay or something. WHY DON’T THEY GIVE YOU THE SCREWS WITH THE DAMN BOARD.
Anyway, the performance is great, so 5 stars, ease to install is 4… well let me change that to 2. Because why. Give people the effing screws for the damn item. I blame MSI for this and other MOBO manufactuteres that don’t unclude them and I blame Western Digital as well.
Great item sitting by itself if you cut all of the installation part out. 5/5 for the item itself.
Regards
Ash