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- Excellent bang for the buck
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- Only available in 250GB and 500GB capacities
WD Blue SN500 M.2 2280 Series NVMe PCIe
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Expert reviews and ratings
By IT PRO
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Storage is an often-overlooked part of computing. The speed of your hard drive can make a big difference to how fast your computer feels, particularly when it comes to booting up and opening apps. SSDs have played a huge part in making devices feel...
By TopNewReview
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8.2 Total ScoreWD Blue SN500 NVMe 500GB ReviewWe have a new budget M.2 SSD king, even if it isn't going to break any performance records.Where to...
By Kitguru.net
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80
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...
By Expert Reviews
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100
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...
By HotHardware
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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...
By CGM
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90
For the price, Western Digital has made a must-own budget friendly SSD that every gamer should consider on their next...
By Tom's Hardware
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80
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...
By PCWorld
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80
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.
By Guru of 3D
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80
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...
By pcgamesn.com
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90
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...
By thessdreview.com
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86
Getting back to where we started, the three most important variables determining an SSDs success today are price, performance and warranty. Warranty is the easiest as the SN500 comes with a 5-year limited warranty which is just about the best in the...
By postperspective.com
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In the end, the Western Digital Blue SN500 NVMe SSD is an amazing value at under $100, and hopefully we will get expanded sizes in the future. The drive is a B+M key configuration, so when you are looking at compatibility, make sure to check which key...
By APH Networks
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When I further questioned my colleague Jonathan Kwan about why he took our friend to the expensive dealers in the first place, he explained in order to know what is good, we have to see what the best is so that we can judge with the right mindset. Only...
By vortez.net
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Western Digital were late to the NVMe SSD game, but it appears they've spent their time getting things right the first time around. The Black SN750 models have proven to be excellent in the enthusiast scene and now with their budget Blue SN500 options,...
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