Western Digital Blue SN570

Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest laptops (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage has undergone a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even...

The WD Blue SN570 performs well and offers a fair price for every gigabyte of capacity, but there are several PCIe 3.0 drives that just do it better, and even PCIe 4.0 drives that offer a huge lift in performance without a big lift in...

The WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD (1TB) could be an excellent choice for your desktop or laptop, if you want a lot of space without spending too much. This is especially true of older PCIe 3.0 platforms that are in line for an upgrade, since anything faster...

A fantastic, well-priced all-rounder, as long as you won’t be writing massive files regularly.

Even if you're moving lots of data around, and will thus get limited by the small SLC cache more often, I'd probably still pick the SN570 over those any day. If you're worried about "DRAM-less," check out our benchmark results—I don't see anything in there that would make me go "here, this clearly confirms it's DRAM-less." If you want higher performance, your only option is one of various PCI-Express 4.0 drives, but be prepared to spend almost twice as much per GB.

The WD Blue SN570 is faster than its predecessor, but it isn't quite as strong during some sustained workloads. Still, at bargain pricing and backed with solid support, the SN570 is a great value if you're looking for PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD goodness on the...

Western Digital has focused recently on fast storage solutions such as SSDs. There is no doubt that after WD acquired SanDisk, it became a significant player not only in the world of traditional hard storage but also that of NAND with a variety of SSDs...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have come a long way in recent years: a long way up in speed and capacity, and a long way down in price. Technology that was previously reserved for enterprise customers and the PC performance elite has gained the common touch,...