WD Blue SN500 M.2 2280 Series NVMe PCIe

WD's Blue range of drives covers the mainstream market segment and consists of traditional mechanical drives, as well as SATA based SSDs in both 2.5in and M.2 formats.The new Blue SN500 is the first NVMe drive to carry the Blue label and it marks a...

Otherwise, however, there's very little in it. That's no bad thing: both of these drives are cheap yet fast, offering performance in the most common file transfer tasks (rather than purely sequential tests) that's just a couple of steps down from the...

WD Blue SN500 Solid State Drives - Find Them At AmazonStreet prices for the WD Blue SN500 series 250GB and 500GB drives currently hover around $55 and $65 dollars respectively. At those prices, the 250GB drive cost about $0.22 per gigabyte, which is...

For the price, Western Digital has made a must-own budget friendly SSD that every gamer should consider on their next...

The WD Blue SN500 delivers NVMe-class performance at SATA prices. With a five-year warranty, an in-house designed controller and NAND that supports endurance ratings of up to 300TBW, you can buy the drive in confidence. We just wish WD offered higher...

Even WD's bargain NVMe SSDs provide excellent bang for the buck. Unlike some cheap competitors, the Blue SN500 maintains a reasonable 750MBps write speed when it runs out of cache. That alone makes it our favorite entry-level NVMe SSD.

Yes, I think I said it all already in the above paragraphs, this is not the fastest NVMe SSD on the market, but it is among the most affordable ones, often even cheaper than a SATA3 SSD. So that's the baseline and narrative to follow here; you need to...

This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD's TLC 3D NAND alongside the company's own homebrew controller tech. And that makes for a...