Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS500G2B0C

I upgraded to an m.2 after running ssds for years. Man the difference is real. Anyone thats says otherwise doesnt run an nvme or m.2. My boot time is about 6 seconds to windows and login. Before it would take a second to boot, to be able to type my pin and wait for programs to load. I still use my hdds as additional storage but I am extremely satisfied with the performance so far with this. TIP: Make sure to install closets to the cpu slot. The other one if your mobo has 2 slots will disable sata ports.

I havent installed a new drive in years so i had a funny couple of minutes popping it in and out of the board checking my slots werent dead. If bios sees it then windows just needs to have it formatted and assigned a drive letter.

Best M.3 drive for the price. I recommend it. Its fast.

As expected. Would have liked to get the screw with it. Emptied my entire toolbox to find one that fit!

Great for its intended purpose. Judt lacking an install screw.

I am getting a little over 2gbs read and write, I will try to get more but I need to figure out how. Then I will write back. But I am happy with 2gbs much faster than my 10,000RPM sata. Not sure if it pertains to every motherboard but when I use the NVMe slot it killed my sata ports 5 and 6. I just made sure I didnt have any hard drives connected to 5 and 6. I never seen bios lock up but it did and I was having a hard time with it. I finally unplugged all my hard drives except for window hard drive. It booted to windows, I used AOEMI free backupper, used copy disk partition to ssd. Rebooted to ssd wiped my windows drive clean. Here I am. Took a while, wasnt easy. Once you know your motherboard could do it all in under an hour. For me wasnt easy will be next time.

I cant believe that it didnt include a mounting post screw. Just one screw. I flipped my whole house looking for that one screw. I ended up unscrewing one screw from one of my old laptop hard drive. My Del* XPS8900 motherboard recognizes it with no problem. As far as speed. Im not that impressed. Its not that much faster than my SATA that Im currently using it right now. Was thinking of cloning Windows to it but Im just gonna use it a storage instead.

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Purchased this on prime day where it was about $85. It’s great as a primary drive for fast boot up speeds as well as read and write speeds for daily stuff and workload productivity. Super easy to install and can use acronis from western digital to clone your drive for free.

Super product, If you are using CY 12 + 16Pin 2014 – 2015 MacBook a m-key M.2 NGFF SSD or other adapter for mac you have to install MACOS with usb Device, just download the installation app, because the internet installation cant download the disk driver.