Better price than Prime Day deal
Capacity : 500GB
Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
Read : 2,400 MB/s
Write : 1,750 MB/s
Interface : NVMe PCIe Gen3x4
Western Digital WD Blue SN550 M.2 2280 NVMe 500GB 2,400 MB/s $79 Delivered @ PC Byte
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so cheap. Tempting even though i don't need one.
If you don’t need one, save the m.2 for a higher capacity.
Curious.. why?
Most motherboards have limited m.2, whereas you can have many sata drives. If you use a smaller one then upgrade to a larger, you might find you can’t use it now.
@kisshell9: Theoretically yes, if it's a PCIE 3.0 x4 slot. It's essentially the same thing as a dedicated m.2 slot on a motherboard since that also uses the PCIE lanes.
There was some issues with booting from m.2 drives using an adapter a few years ago but most manufacturers pushed BIOS updates to fix that. I'd assume any recent motherboard would be compatible.
Upvote for the Op's nickname.
That profile pic too 🤣
Hahaha I missed that till see ur message haha
great username
Is it compatible with MacBook Pro? Or do Need to buy some adapter?
Will have to buy an enclosure
Bought 1 for next year build :). Thanks OP
This or kingston a2000? For gaming
You won't see any difference in gaming but someone correct me if i'm wrong
Yeah, A2000 and SN550 are very close in performance in general, so for game loading especially there's no practical difference. Best option is which ever is cheapest!
I'm waiting for black friday
this is dramless? from memory it is
It is but, but its controller is highly-regarded and is meant to utilise SRAM as a substitute.
From reviews it seems to work well and performance is on par with the A2000 which does have DRAM.
https://au.pcmag.com/ssd-1/67243/wd-blue-sn550
https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9590/western-digital-sn550…that is true, and I read a couple of articles on that, but
if I can choose between dramless and non-dramless, I will just choose non-dramless for a peace of mind
and I did, I went with A2000
it's not performance but endurance I am thinking about
hmm, this or a samsung 970 evo? /plus?
For the vast majority of users this or the A2000 will perform great.
The advantage of the 970 evo is in large (from memory >~15GB) file transfers, where the 970 evo would be about 50% faster (~1200MBps vs ~800MBps). Unless that is something you do regularly, I'd save the money and get this or the A2000.thank you for your advice! I'll look into these others more then, unless a really good deal for the samsung one comes back up again ^^
Glad I could help!
Back in stock, but no free shipping.
Good price!