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 |
1y+ review - just the job!
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.
Great speed and price
Can’t go wrong with the speed and deal at the time.
Great well around drive
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 produc
Very good quality product, had it over a year and i’m happy with it, definitely buying it agai
Great drive.
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.
Currently using this in a Gen3 slot, thus I cannot say if the Gen4 feature works good or not but this was an upgrade from a HDD and I have certainly noticed the difference. From what took me 10 minutes to boot up my computer, now with this, takes me about 10 seconds to get to my Desktop and another 10 seconds to have all my startup apps loaded.
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.
if your poor like me. and you cant afford 2tb stick. just buy this 1tb stick. fill it with games. lock your door and seperate yourself from those people who all live downstairs called family. then youll have way more space because you wont leave the room with your lightining fast loading times. you wont have time to shower inbetween loading levels. you wont be able to finish peeing before your computer hits the desktop from pressing that power button. all in all. 10 outta 10
The ssd was awkward to fit because of the motherboard slot location, between the graphics card and cpu. Not helped by the extreme air cooling that i have on the cpu.
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!
pcie gen4 budget, snappy in Windows 11 in day to day use. will buy more if on offer as we need to setup a few pc. WD is good enough against Samsung
pcie gen4 budget, snappy in Windows 11 in day to day use. will buy more if on offer as we need to setup a few pc. WD is good enough against Samsung
You need a small NVME adaptor ( costing 10) in addition to this SSD in order to fit this into a 2015 MacBook Pro.
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.
I installed this on the G14 Asus Laptop with an external USB C SSD adapter. Has been working great since buying it 6 months ago. Thought that it might run hot, but surprisingly runs cool at about 46C even without any heatsink or thermalpad. It was easy to install and clone with the included software by WD. Overall happy with my purchase.
Like:
– Easy to install and clone drive
– Runs cool
– Reliable
Dislike:
– None
Great SSD, awful game.
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.
SSD is faultless does what it says on the box, However I got battlefield 2042 for free! and after playing it I believe I deserve a refund as for being put through that experience. 10/10 SSD 1/10 Offe
Happy with the speed
Bought this SSD to run the OS and some games on my PC. I think it is fast enough for me to run the games smoothly in full HD and to boot Windows 10 fast. It is not big enough for mass storage, that’s why I have a separate 4TB HDD on my PC. So I would recommend this SSD M2 if you want a cheap, value for money product that will massively improve the speed of your PC (compared to regular HDD and even Sata SSD).
Way back in the gold old days read-write speeds were about 15 mbs or there abouts, Now wee see monsters like this M.2 drive with speeds vastly beyond comprehension. This drive is about 15 months old and I know newer and faster drives are on the market, but with speeds this drive offers as there any reason to go faster unless you are in such a hurry to transfer 10gb file that few 3 or 4 seconds will be the end of the world for you. Na didn’t think so.. This drive is well worth it’s weight in gold and looking at the numbers you will agree.
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)
Not compatible for PS5, you need at least a WD_BLACK SN850 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4
Not bad at all this is the first time using this m.2 drive and worked fine.
Will def use agai
Great to see drives this fast at decent price points. It has been my primary OS drive on my computer for a while now and it is about as fast as it gets on PCI Gen 3. Very happy with it’s performance, the perfect primary drive.
Highly recommended
Works like a charm with my ASUS FX505DV!
Got this for my laptop as the 16GB RAM and i7 chip was being held back by the HDD, which made it slow and clunky.
Got my OS on this SSD now, and laptop feels like new. I’d read some concerns of this SSD’s compatibility with ASUS laptops but it seems to be working just fine so far in my case.
It’s a little difficult to write a review of an NVME drive. It’s does everything it advertises it will. Which I guess is a glowing review given not all NVME drives do.
As always it’s the price that makes or breaks it and 45 was very good.
Does exactly what it is supposed to do
There is nothing to dislike about this product. I did not do any read/write speed tests so cannot comment on that. I use it for my Lightroom catalog and I find the app loads very quickly.
I installed it in a purchased external enclosure; the instructions for the enclosure were not well written, but I eventually figured it out. That was not the problem of the SSD; once installed correctly, all was good.
Je recommande très bon rapport qualité prix !!
Je recommande vivement !!! . Rapport qualit prix excellent ,500GB pour 64 $ a vaut la peine pour un WD black 750 se !! ( quivalent au WDv/750 mais en PCIE 4.0 ) il est en spcial peut tre le prix va augmenter 🙂 .
Works fine
No issues – did not get the game though…
Did not work with two different external USB enclosure – I sent them back, but not sure if it is not something with the actual drive.
Bin zufriede
Bin am anfang etwas geschockt gewesen als das Paket ankam hatte die groe eines din a4 Umschlags wusste nicht wo die reinpassen soll:-) nun zur Platte macht einen guten Eindruck passt perfekt in den Steckplatz und wurde sofort erkannt Geschwindigkeit ist top sehr zufriede
PS5 Compatible
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+++
It's great purchase for the price I got it fo
I had bought this for the Republic Day 2022 sale got this for a Great deal of Rs.4.900 , The purpose of this 500Gb SSD Gen4(Gen3 backward compatible) was to upgrade my storage on my Hp Victus laptop.
As you can see in the images it got installed pretty well and gave the performance which was mentioned. I had also loaded a Adobe premiere pro 4k Editing project which also loaded very quickly without any hesitation. Overall its value for money if you get a good deal , and always better then wd blue SSD.
No era compatible con mi placa madre :(
La memoria tiene una presentacin muy bonita y el servicio de Amazon fue impecable, el nico problema es que mis puertos no eran compatibles ya que mi motherboard es algo vieja.
Super schnelle NVME
Die NVME ist super schnell habe auf der 500gb mein Betriebssystem zu laufen, unglaublich wie schnell der Rechner startet
Die Software von WD (extra laden) ist sehr einfach gehalten und bersichtlich, sie zeigt dir alle wesentlichen Informationen der NVME von Speicherplatz bis hin zur Lebensdauer
Ein gaming Modus gibt es auch, jedoch habe ich keinen Unterschied feststellen knne
Vengo a aportar algo para las personas que tienen la preocupacin, as como yo la tuv, de que no fuera compatible con PCIe Gen3, ya que vi en algn comentario que no le fue compatible. Pero a mi si me agarro bien en un asrock steel legend. Funciona perfecto y es como 5 veces mas rpido que un ssd normal.
First time installing an NVMe M.2 drive. It was as simple as you could want it to be. Once installed I had forgot to activate the drive on my PC so took me a few minutes to do it. I installed my OS onto it and the startup time went from around 30 seconds on my SSD to around 3-4 seconds. I have noticed several noticeable improvements in the loading times and copying times.
Overall I am very happy I purchased this and would recommend if you are thinking of upgrading your storage
LA VELOCIDAD DE LA PC AUMENTO CONSIDERABLEMENTE
LA VELOCIDAD DE ENCENDIDO LA LA PC PASO DE 2 MIN 45 A 14 SEGUNDOS, ES VERDADERAMENTE BUENA, NO HUBO PROBLEMA PARA INSTALAR, ESO SI AL JUGAR JUEGO DEMANDANTES RECOMENDARIA TENER EL AIRE ACONDICIONADO ENCENDIDO O ALGUN VENTILADOR DE APOYO CERCA YA QUE SI GENERA CALOR
I wanted to extend my system drive’s capacity with more SSDs, hence I purchased this WD SN750 SSD. After testing it with open-source tools on Linux, I found out that this is an excellent SSD drive at really reasonable price (I got it on an Amazon deal). This drive is a bit higher than the entry level SSDs out there, but of course is not mid-range or high-end one. However, it does a great job in terms of performance; if you are a programmer and do a lot of compilation or parallel computing/programming, this can work very well and smoothly (very good performance). Also, I can see this an excellent choice (considering the price) for gaming. Here are the results of my test (a couple of photographs attached as well), read speed from buffer is on almost 2.4 GB/s in 0.45 seconds (very good, despite the advert indicates 3.4 GB/s – You will not get the maximum speed at all from any drive, please read below), write speed is about 800 MB/s in 1.3 seconds which is not bad at all. Usually, any read/write data you see on the advert of such drives is theoretical data which the hardware may not achieve it at all, even 2/3 of it.. I do recommend this SSD for professional use as well as gaming given its low price; if you want higher than the above figures, then you may go for high-end drive with more cost.. This review given in a good faith, so I hope to be helpful.
JEUX SSD NVME SUPER RAPIDE POUR FS2020
JEUX SSD NVME SUPER RAPIDE POUR FS2020 pas mal plus rapide que sur dis dur classique HDD ca se comparent pas et assez facile a installer tres satisfait et pren pas de place comme HDD IDE SATA recu assez rapide avec intelcom livrer a la porte et produit de quality recommande ce produit et suPer prix et livraison gratuite prime merci recommande ce vendeur notede A++++$$$@@@@
1st image from WD Black SN750 500Gb on a Startech X4 PCIe to M.2 PCIe SSD adapter attached to a Gigabyte X570 board with Ryzen 5 5600X
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
Easy to install but make sure you get a heatsink or it will overheat and under perform.
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
Simples
So easy to install.
1 Take side off computer.
2 remove one small phillips screw
3 remove memory card
4 install in reverse order.
Voil!
Speed increase is amazing. Performed new Windows 10 installation from usb flash drive in about 15 minutes total.
Only negative the game is pants.
I upgraded from a HDD to the WD Black SN750 SSD and the speed improvements are outstanding. My system jumped to 3425.00mb/s read speeds and 2710.86MB/s with the WD Black SSD. I’ve left a screenshot from Crystal Disk Mark and my computer spec:
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.
These M2 really do improve the disk speeds. This one has been perfectly stable for the OS, I brought a bigger second one for the games. no problems work exactly as should.
Excellent PCIE gen 4 drive. The speeds are great, definitely shaves off load times with some of my heavy duty games like Red Dead 2 and Call of Duty. Installs easily into the m.2 socket on the motherboard. It’s quite pricey but definitely one to look out for when on sale.
EXCELENTE PRODUCTO
Llevo usndolo casi una semana y es un excelente producto, lo instale en mi laptop HP OMEN 15 y no tuvo ningn problema, mi laptop enciende en segundos, si tu laptop tiene solo un almacenamiento HDD tienes que instalar este SSD nvme es una buena opcin.
Nicely packaged, fast.
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.
Like having a new laptop
I bought this for my laptop, and it is like having a new computer again!
Games that were slow to load, now load instantly, and even some performance issues have been solved now.
Awesome SSD, I will buy another for my next pc
Probably a Good stick but not compatible with PS 5
Installed to PS 5 and bang ! Sorry but not having this one message appears on the screen. . . . So don’t but for PS5 guys.
Probably a fantastic stick for a laptop or PC no doubt but PS 5 is nat having it.
Warning Not for PS5 but a great SSD for other devices
Freindly warning so there’s don’t purchase the wrong SSD. Great little card but you will need the WD Black SN850 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive to work properly in the PS5 as my son found out. Great SSD for other devices just not PlayStatio
Got this as it was fairly cheap for an Gen 4 SSD and saw some youtubers trying out the lower capacity model which outperformed it’s stats on the PS5 (this does even better)
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.
Fitted to Acer Nitro gaming laptop after realising that it never came with a MMC as standard. After a bit of research, I was pleased to know that adding this MMC would boost performance and it certainly did. Ran a few benchmarks and the improvement was amazing. The laptop performs like a different machine and the startups a fast!
Excellent upgrade
Excellent upgrade over the HDD that was dying. Installed in a Dell Latitude E5570 with i7 6820HQ. The picture speaks for the performance. Not top speeds but perfect for what I need. I would recommend if you can’t quite stretch to a Samsung.
Bought to allow more breathing space than the 256GB drive that came with my system, the PCIe Gen.3 SN750 1TB achieves sequential read/writes of around 3000MB/s as expected, along with random small file read/writes of 60MB/s.
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.
This SSD has had rave review from the masses – and I’ve probably owned it for about 4 months now and it’s been flawless. I used to own a A400 SSD from Kingston which was a grave mistake as the SSD didn’t have NAND flash which meant that read and write speeds were painfully slow. However, after upgrading to this the difference has been night and day with the PC booting up before my monitor can even turn on – this is about 10 seconds on a Ryzen 5 26000 computer. This is explained by the incredible read speeds of about 3347.6MB/s (MegaBytes) which is as advertised so am really impressed compared to my previous Kingston experience. Furthermore, the write speeds are also very impressive and perfect for my needs clocking in at 2688.3MB/s write speeds which more than suffices for my needs.
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.
Fast boot drive
I have been using this as a boot drive for 6+ months now and it has been fantastic. It used to take my PC 3-5 minutes to load to desktop but now only takes 5-10 seconds.
This is my first ever NVME SSD.
I used to have windows on my older SSD that plugged in via SATA Cables, the difference from that to this is phenomenal. Boot times are incredibly fast. Loading times for games are super quick, and it’s super easy to install.
Good product however doesn’t have any screws to physically screw it in, not a problem bc I had spares but could be a issue for others.
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
Built 2 gaming computers with my teenager in lockdown. This SSD is great.
I bought 2 of these – one with a heatsink and one without. My MSI motherboard already came with one but my Asus B550 gaming one didnt – so double check. It’s best to have one. Looks great through the glass window. Performance is spot-on.
ook me a second to install and I cloned my boot drive to this ssd. It went as smoothly as it could. The speeds are excellent. The advertised max read was 3430 MB/s and in my first test with after cloning the boot drive in was 3491 MB/s as we can see from the picture. I paid 59.39 for 500gb, totally worth i
Item was as described by the seller, well packed and delivered on time schedule. I will definitely recommend this product and the seller. Thanks to the Amazon team. You make everything from online shopping to delivery to your customers. Keep up the good attitude. Thanks one and all.
I got this for my C: drive in a new build, I was going to get a Western Digital Green or Blue anyway and then add heatshield later. But the Black worked out better value as supplied with heatshield in the packet.
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
Acquired an old laptop, that had no HDD.
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.
Western Digital are the best drive makers to my mind. So far have never even had a whiff of a fault with any of the WesDig drives I’ve bought EVER.
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 !
AMAZING SSD
The absolute speed on this SSD is unmatched, super easy to install. Doesn’t get really hot at all. looks super sleek as its all black. And all this for a price that no other company offers. It’s amazing.
Reasonably easy to install, but it will obviously depend on your exact system and case as to how easy it is to reach the M2 slot. Made a very noticeable difference to system boot, load and activity times. Would highly recommend.
Is what it says it is
Getting the full speed advertised on a new install of windows. Doesn’t come with screws but my mobo had them already. At first glance it is as advertised.
Gigagbyte Aorus Elite X570
AMD 3600
Thermaltake 16GB 3600
I bought this to replace a much older Samsung OEM unit, with a max read speed of 1500. Since the mainboard is PCIe 3.2 then this was a good looking choice!
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
No problems installing, a big jump in performance compared to my my old SSD. Can’t make any comparisons with other brands as it’s my first M.2 drive. Time will tell for reliability but I don’t expect any issues with Western Digital. It was a good price warehouse deal with some damage to the retail packaging.
Bought to replace my hard drive
I bought this product to replace my hard drive. I am enjoying how quick it is to load games and programs. M.2. Is an amazing technology and will always recommend it.
Plenty enough storage to store the games I play regularly. Very speedy, compared to my HDD, not sure in comparison to a normal sata ssd, but bottomline is I have not encountered a single problem for the 6 months I’ve had it. Oh and temps are very reassuring. Never surpassed 50C with the highest ambient temperatures.
M.2 drives bring down boot times to a few seconds, noticeable improvement from standard SSD and almost magic compared to HDD! Wish I’d done it sooner! Also much smaller and doesn’t need cables!
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.
Great SSD.
It’s easy to install, it’s super fast, it doesn’t overheat and it stores my stuff. Really what more do you need to know. If you need a M.2 SSD get this one
Absolutely love the performance of this drive. I have it fitted in a PCIE adapter fitted within a dual-xeon server that has 144GB of RAM. The server is now10 years old, so pretty slow by today’s standards, yet this thing allows me to host online technical training for half a dozen guys, with each of them accessing several Virtual machines simultaneously.
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.
Bought to replace a normal 2.5″ ssd that I stole from the pc to put in a laptop, this item is way faster according to the specs and in benchmarks it is.
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.
I bought this NVMe M.2 drive to finally use the M.2 drive on my motherboard and to replace my aging 240GB SATA SSD (no 3D NAND). I use it as a Windows10 Boot drive and install all my programs on it!
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!
Works great. No issues and even from a sata SSD it increased boot times and load times for applications. Highly recommended (500gb)
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.
I will say this. I bought it, few hours later read about overheating and burninf stuff. Checked videos, researched and finally came to the classic conclusion. You will have bad luck in some things and good luck in others. I copied 600gb to it for 2 hours while playing world of warcraft in full specs and checked email and downloaded stuff to it,max temperature was 47 degrees celcious. I have it as 2nd M.2 in a Tuf A15 laptop. Very happy with the purchase. SN750 1Tb
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?
Bought this to upgrade the SSD in my ultrabook. I’m not one for benchmark numbers and such but it is noticeably faster.
At the time of writing I think this ssd hits the sweet spot in terms of price/performance. Very happy with my purchase!
I’m on the fence with this one at the moment! Been having some minor issues on my newbuild pc and i’m starting to think this is the cause of those issues so i have dropped a star for that reason. First of all it’s fast that’s expected from an nvme drive but nowhere near as fast as advertised. Easy to install and instantly set up and the wd dashboard is a handy little software tool to monitor it. I’m not entirely sure if i would recommend it until i narrow down the problem on my pc but i have ruled out pretty much everything else and my boot times recently where slower than my old samsung ssd! I reinstalled windows and those seem to be far better so that may have been a software issue but if it starts to drop in speed again i may consider getting a crucial or samsung nvme and using this as a non OS backup drive. Loading software on the desktop is fine although windows explorer isn’t that fast however that could just be a windows bug. Overall it’s fine for the price but may be the cause of some minimal desktop stutter i’ve had recently.
I am very very impressed with this product. It was easy to install and I had a fresh Windows 10 Pro install up an running in under 10 minutes. My gaming machine boots up in about 7 seconds. I use a hybrid drive for storage and combined with this I’m actually getting more performance in my games. I can’t recommend it enough. The price is really good too.
My laptop is now 10x faster, everything loads super quick including the infamous Skyrim loading screen. Bit of a faff to install but that was due to my laptop not the product.