Customers are delighted by the Blue SN550 1TB SSD's excellent price and ease of installation. Many appreciate its strong performance and ample storage capacity for various applications. While some users noted heat generation under heavy load, the majority found it to be a reliable and fast drive. Overall, the positive feedback highlights the drive's value for everyday computing needs.
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great card, super fast..
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Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fantastic SSD. Works great and is super fast. Put your OS on it, and it's practically an instant start when you turn on your computer.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely amazing performance for price.
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Absolutely love this NVME drive. the Price is absolutely great and performance is even better. i now have 2 of these in my system and they are rock solid. The speed in which everything loads and renders is awesome. Worth upgrading to NVME for sure.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Nice item
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I bought it before the price rise:) it makes more space for me to put my Minecraft mods.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great
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Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Easy to install. Had this for over two years and haven't had an issue yet!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Compatibly, Dependability, Reliability
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fast, Tiny, and naturally compatible. Special Note: Do not defrag! It will only shorten the lifespan. Be certain to download and install the Dashboard utility from WD website.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
No mounting screw
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It’s so much faster than anything SATA III. 2000 plus M/second. I have read other reviews that said that they should include a screw and standoff, but I already had one, or so I thought. I had some frustration searching for the screw and standoff that I thought I had, and then had to pay $6.00 plus wait for it to be delivered! Minus a star for that. I would have paid the cost if WD would have included it in the package 50 cents?), or at least gave the option.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast and east to install
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far, everything seems to be going well. There was an instance where my PC randomly shut down (forgot the error), but it has not occurred since.
Upon arrival, everything was well packaged. I was also not expecting a meal card for HelloFresh. Upon taking the item out of the box, it was much smaller than expected.
The installation was fairly easy. I am using a separate Hard Drive for paging file in order to preserve the writes to this SSD. (You should do if you have a lot of RAM or a separate hard drive, in order to preserve your SSD writes)
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Affordable
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Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It's a decent middle of the road ssd. For the price I am very pleased with the performance.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Price, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great size for price
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This is a great product easy to install lots of storage low price
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Faster replacement hard drive
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fantastic speed and processing for the price. I bought this for my wife to replace a malfunctioning SATA hard drive on a 2017 Dell computer. She was amazed how much faster the hard drive is at opening applications and running Windows. The only application that wasn't much faster was Photoshop, but that was to be expected.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Nvme
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Faster Boot time, better performance overall, good value.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
WD - Blue PCIe SSD drive
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Up to know has worked fine. Has been using it as an external hard drive with an enclosure. Originally bought to replace SSD drive from laptop and still is the plan. Needs to figure out how to copy laptop drive to this and how to open laptop. It makes for a fast, compact external drive.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Drive
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Picked this up on sale and it was a great value. Drive is pretty fast being NVMe and it is only triple layered vs the other budget drives that are quad layered. I still prefer single or dual for life of the drive, but for the price this is way better. :)
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
SSD bargain
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This solid state drive was very easy to install, although there wasn’t much installation help I was able to get help online. The product works well and the price was right, I’m vey satisfied with this product.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Price, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Looks to be the same one as the Sandisk version
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great value for a 1TB nvme storage drive. I would definitely recommend. It looks like it's the same thing as the sandisk version except WD slapped their brand on it so you could probably get away with buying the Sandisk one if it's cheaper.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
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Heat
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
WD SN550
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This is an amazing little drive, these SanDisk and WD chips are highly reliable. No DRAM but don't need it, also doesn't get hot like DRAM SSDs.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ease of use, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
WD blue didn't make me blue.
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very easy to install and to install windows. Has good speed to load programs for games . Price wasn't badf either.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Free software to migrate your data as well!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This has been a solid NVME SSD, the price was good and combined with one of the Z590 boards you cant go wrong.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance, Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good M2
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Got it to use as a new boot drive, runs well and fast, haven't had any problems with it.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Wish I had upgraded sooner
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I upgraded a 1TB 5400rpm hdd with the 1TB WD Blue SN550 in a laptop that is less than one year old. It runs so much faster, I cannot believe it. If you're looking for a quick speed boost on a computer that supports M.2 hard-drives, this is definitely a worthy choice.
Be prepared to find some alternative software for transferring your data, the stuff that comes with this drive is terrible. Otherwise, this was the best money I've ever spent on a computer upgrade.