The WD Blue SN550 is positioned as a significant upgrade over their previous SN500 SSD, and the performance is impressive for a DRAM-less drive. It would make an excellent upgrade over a SATA SSD, and the competitive pricing helps it stack up favorably against other low-cost NVMe options as well.
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The WD Blue SN550 is positioned as a significant upgrade over their previous SN500 SSD, and the performance is impressive for a DRAM-less drive. It would make an excellent upgrade over a SATA SSD, and the competitive pricing helps it stack up favorably against other low-cost NVMe options as well.
If you want ultimate speeds, especially in respect of writing, or hardware encryption then look elsewhere. The WD Blue SN550 is more of a family people-carrier than a head-turning roadster, to use a vehicle analogy.That said, the benchmark numbers still...
Just a few years ago, most of the users building a custom PC would opt for a small-capacity SSD for the operating system and pair it with a high-capacity HDD to store data. SSDs were expensive back then, in fact, they were as expensive as a computer.The...
A 1TB drive for $100 is easy to like, and we were nearly all smiles with this notable improvement over the Blue SN500. Only the slightly skimpy amount of SLC cache wrinkled our brows. Note that the 250GB capacity maxes out at 950MBps writing, rather than the 1.75GBps at which we clocked the 1TB version.
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 and the first NVMe based Blue drive, the M.2 SN500. Now we have the arrival of the...
We just wanted to let our community know what we have been working on behind the scenes and this is just a quick look at a couple of the new things that we are doing. The new SSD test system will be heavily used in the months ahead and we look forward...
With the refresh of the Blue NVMe lineup, Western Digital has increased the number of PCI Express lanes available while also doubling the maximum drive capacity. Furthermore, they have kept excellent traits such as a lengthy write endurance and...
WD's new Blue SN550 is a nice improvement on the older SN500, though it still isn't going to worry the competition with its performance. However, other vendors sure won't be happy that it's 10 cents per gigabyte at the 1TB capacity.The WD Blue SN550 is...
Now that I have taken a look at the WD Blue SN550 and have run it through our benchmark suite we have learned a few things about Western Digital's newest drive. In a lot of ways, the SN550 is very similar to the SN500, especially aesthetically. The...