Customer Ratings & Reviews

Cut my Elder scrolls online load times by 90%, absolutely amazing. It instantly loads to the main menu with no delay, and when loading into the game it only takes 13 seconds, before it would be around a minute. But that’s only when loading into the game the first time, when switching zones it takes around 5-6 seconds which is such a crazy improvement that I thought it was a one time fluke. But it does it for all zones which is absolutely crazy. But the best thing is teleporting while inside the same zone. It’s instantaneous instead of waiting around 10 seconds to simply switch locations on the same map! Highly recommended, but if you do then I recommend getting more storage if you can. I got this for extremely cheap, about $36. It runs relatively cool but then again I have a heat sink for it. While under stress test, it stayed at a cool 36c.

The WD - Blue line of SSD are good quality, solid drives that stay intact. The SN550 NVME 500 Internal PCI SSD offers fast read/write and reasonably priced. A good upgrade from the OEM SSD's that many manufacturers provide. Also make sure you get WD-BLUE, WD-Green is not the same quality. The NVME SSD is super easy to install and boot up. Anything from an i5 to i7 will see a boost in performance with this SSD.

My first M.2 NVMe drive. The bench that I ran only once showed: Capacity 500GB SEQUENTIAL Read 1200 MB/s Write 1190 MB/s Mixed 1091 MB/s Sustained 490 MB/s _averaged = 993 MB/s RANDOM 4K Read 40.6 MB/s Write 103 MB/s Mixed 54.5 MB/s _averaged = 66 MB/s DEEP QUEUE 4K Read 814 MB/s Write 730 MB/s Mixed 838 MB/s _averaged = 794MB/s I am not using any cooling solution(heatsink) so it might perform better with cooling. I am using a Dell A320 Motherboard which it not real great, so it may perform better on other boards. This drive is not my system(OS) drive. I'm using it only for video games right now, lol, because I already have my system files on a 960GB SATA SSD booting in about 10 seconds(who really cares if it could boot faster than that?), and because I want my main games to load as fast as possible(Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA V). My only complaint is that I wish it came with an M2 screw.

Best deal when it first came out. Still using it and running well.

Very fast drive. Excellent performance and excellent price. Cannot beat this value for very reliable drive.

The price and the specs we're what I was looking for; my acer 15e laptop is running faster than when I first got it. I wish I could read Best Buys mind, because a few weeks later, the WD Black version of the ssd I purchased was priced a bit more than $5 what I paid. I'm happy with what I got, but I've learned to be a bit more patient before Black Friday.

So far so good def the best & fastest M.2 you can get from Best Buy or even on the market anywhere for the price. My only real problem was that I couldn't manage to get the 1TB version that I wanted because it's always out of stock or sold out so had to settle for the smaller 500GB one. Have had many WD products past & present always good quality & lasted. The Drive & Speed is great for everything even gaming with it but if you do get it to use for gaming it can run Hot/High at 50-55 Celsius at Heavy load while gaming. Compared to the Normal Temp Zone of 30-37 Celsius at low load to 40-48 Celcius at Medium to High load. But found it can hit 50+ during some games even though was stated that temps still not big issue prefered it not go that high but with a little addition of new fans & better fan configurations in my case it now never reaches above normal even at heaviest laod while gaming. Which am glad since before was looking into possible M.2 heatsink for it but no need although if or when M.2 like WD Black with Heatsink for example go down in price it'd definately be the better option for using if needed for gaming.

Been using this to record gameplay to and render videos on and so far it's been doing well. Remuxing only takes seconds and transferring files to and from it is so fast I don't have time to get a cup of water. Half a TB for under $60; this year has had some very good value as far as storage goes!

Used it for an HP computer with only 128 GB hd that was on sale at Best Buy. I installed it with a Windows imaging software from windows 10. didn’t need to clone the drive. All you do is create a system image and create a system repair disk all from windows 10. I don’t think a lot of people know this. You have to change the bios so it boots up either from a USB stick or DVD. However you made the repair disk. Follow directions about restoring a system image. Copy system image from an external hard drive and wait about an hour. That’s it. In my case I had to re-partition a hard drive after everything was done. There’s a software out there called EaseUS. It’s free and it worked for me. Didn’t cost anything except for what the new hard drive cost and it was on sale for $69.

The WD Blue NVME makes an excellent boot drive. Even without DRAM it still performs read/write very quickly in the real world. It does take awhile for the cache to flush after large writes, but most Samsung and WD SSDs suffer the same fate. I’ve used this for Windows 10, Linux Mint, and Pop and on all three systems it just works. I keep my music, videos, and games on a (internal) 2.5” SSD and let this handle the OS. For video and photo editing, I usually copy the file to the boot drive, edit there, and move it back when I’m done. Doing this, it handles read/writes very quickly and I’ve never had I/O be a bottleneck in my workflow. For me, the extra money for a WD Black wasn’t worth it, and unless you have some incredibly demanding use cases, I imagine most people will find the same to be true as well.

Wanted a little more storage for games. Sick of loading off my platter drive. This isn't PCIe 4.0 so it isn't as fast as the PS5 drives, but it is a helluva lot faster than an old platter drive.

I've been using Western Digital products for around 20 years and I have never been let down. This NVME SSD offers an excellent blend of price to performance. Highly recommended!

If your PC or desktop happens to have the M.2 slot, this SSD is a great way to add some extra storage space and make your machine fly.

This is my go to SSD. Stable, fast, and reasonably priced. I’ve used both this .5 TB and the 1 TB versions. It works well for both productivity and gaming.

Super fast and no issues. Works great in my HP 450 G5. Western digital is starting to come back. Definitely a superior upgrade to standard SSD

Fast and reliable. Been using it for almost a year and no complaints so far. Definitely recommended

It is a fast, low temperature PCIe Gen 3 X4 SSD, it is good for a laptop or intel NUC.

Good speed. Easy to install. Transfer rate is quicker than SSD. Works great in gaming system. Would recommend.

It is fast and a good price. Has plenty of space. Will definitely buy again if I need it.

Super fast and has plenty of storage. For the price it was worth it.