Build your ideal creation engine. Upgrading your system or optimizing your next custom build with the slim M.2 2280 form factor. All you need is an NVMe™ slot. bit_user said:Huh? That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. I think that warrants an explanation. WD designed the controller and firmware that powers the SSD. The Blue SN550’s NVMe 1.4-compliant controller interfaces with the host over a PCIe 3.0 x4 link, a step up from the x2 link the previous SN500 had, which helps performance a bit.

techgeek said:Looks like they need a little quality control over at WD. Look at all the flux left on the bottom right-hand corner (from the perspective of the picture) around all the SMD caps and diode near what I believe is the controller. Amazing that made it out of the factory like that.===========================================Looks like they need a little quality control over at WD. Look at all the flux left on the bottom right-hand corner (from the perspective of the picture) around all the SMD caps and diode near what I believe is the controller. Amazing that made it out of the factory like that.

True to its name, WD’s Blue SN550 comes with a blue PCB, in a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor, so it can fit in even the thinnest of devices. WD’s product team are fairly tight-lipped on disclosing hardware specifics enabling the Blue SN550 to perform how it does, but we managed to narrow things down a bit on our own. Also, nice review. I was worried it might not have the synthetic benchmarks, but I was glad when I finally got to them. Personally, I care mostly about synthetics. I like when random read IOPS are tested at queue depths 1, 2, and 4, FWIW. But QD1 is what matters most. As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for storage capacity, 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment. NVMe goes mainstream with a powerful, cost-effective storage solution that adds to the reliability of an SSD.

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TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity. As used for transfer speed, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software components and configurations.

We value your content. That’s why the WD Blue reliability features help protect your content so you can stress less about losing your brilliant work. Keep your imagination flowing as you create faster while maintaining low power consumption. With read speeds up to 3,500 MB/s 3 (500GB – 2TB 1 models), your system can run up to 5X faster than our best SATA SSDs so you can stay in your creative moment. The Western Digital Dashboard helps users maintain peak performance of the Western Digital SSD in Windows operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. The Western Digital Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and firmware updates.

I have QD 1-128 on 4K random and 128 seq results data for manufacturer comparison. Optimally, for synthetic testing, I'd do a filesize and QD sweep like I do with enterprise stuff, but for consumers, that would be a lot of data for little value. I used to plot QD1-4 and the average before, but I just don't think it is worth plotting beyond QD1 on random because one file size doesn't always relate to what real-world performance will be like. And, performance isn't hugely different between drives in QD2-4 that it matters to show. That, and I think because the application test results speak for themselves more than anything. At the end of the day, responsiveness to real-world like use is most important.

With a certification from the WD Functional Integrity Testing Lab (F.I.T. Lab™), every WD Blue SATA SSD is verified for compatibility with a wide range of desktop and laptop computers. SSD is designed with no moving parts to help protect against data loss if it is accidentally bumped or dropped. And with 1.75M hours MTTF (mean time to failure) 2, up to 600 TBW (terabytes written) 3, and several error correction technologies, WD Blue SATA SSDs can help guard data for years to come. Let me know if you would like to see any other tests/data. I'm always looking for something new and worthwhile to add. :)

Notebook reviews with Western Digital Blue SN550 NVMe SSD 1 TB WDS100T2B0C

with a multi-gear ECC schemeHuh? That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. I think that warrants an explanation. did not recreate cache, as it is less than 5 days old! Created at Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:16:59 +0200 +0.001s ... 0.001s Thousands of hours of hardware, firmware and validation testing combine to advance the award-winning WD Blue heritage of quality and reliability. The WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD(WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0) is a good priced NVMe SSD for M.2 slots (2280). It features no DRAM buffer memory and uses 3 bit TLC memory chips with 96 layers. Officially Western Digital states 2.4 / 1.95 GB/s read / write speeds that we also could measure with CDM6 (2443 / 2019 MB/s).