Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - PCIe Gen 4.0, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS200T4B0E

I bought two of these 1TB drives to replace some generic 512gb units that came in some prebuilts. These drives are an excellent value in terms of cost and what you get. On the PCIe 4x4 bus they're designed for they absolutely achieve the advertised 4150Mb/s in both read AND write operations. Sure you can get faster drives but they also run hotter and are considerably more expensive. The SN580 is a great middle point. Although I run these(and all of my nvme ssds) with heatsinks, temperatures were just fine and actually lower than the drive it replaced. Acronis' software is included for drive cloning and some other tools and I used it to clone these drives with not a single hiccup. A few stats for nerds... these are DRAM-less drives and employ an SLC cache of around 350gbs. 112layer Kioxia BiCS5 TLC NAND is used. Once that cache fills up though you can expect around 3-400Mb/s. Overall, still a great budget drive with decent performance for all kinds of users. Works great in PCIe3x4 slots as well at around 3500Mb/s R/W as measured in CDM. If you can live without the DRAM, seriously look at these drives.

The Western Digital 1TB NVMe SSD offers impressive speed and performance, with read speeds up to 4,150 MB/s making it perfect for both gaming and general use. The Gen4 x4 PCIe interface ensures rapid data transfer, significantly improving boot times and overall system responsiveness.Installation is straightforward with the M.2 2280 form factor, and the 1TB capacity provides ample storage for applications, games, and files. It’s a reliable choice for anyone looking to upgrade their system’s storage without breaking the bank.Overall, this SSD offers excellent speed, reliability, and value, making it a great choice for boosting your system’s performance.

Install it and forget it. So easy. It's gay and a great price plus it's a WD Blue which means it's built for a lot of writing to the drive and for large files. I have not noticed a slow down on large file transfer.

I was updating an old PC from Gen 3 intel cpu and motherboard to a Gen 8 for my kids (gen8 cpu and motherboard were much less than $200 total). I had added decent amount of ddr4 memory, more aggressive cpu cooling, and a much better video card as well (I had upgraded my video card in my rig so had a spare available). But it still was bogged down. Finally figured out it was constantly hitting the old hdd. Pretty much 100% disk usage constantly.This M.2 was under $60 even when adding sales tax in my area. Installed this M.2 drive in the computer. Did a clean windows install on the M.2 drive and then set the bios to boot from it. Works great now, runs fast on everything they need. The 1TB is more than sufficient. Old hdd is bulk storage if need more space for things like pics. Overall the system is now overkill for running stuff my kids like such as Roblox and Minecraft. Plus with Gen 8 hardware I can run windows 11 if I want to upgrade from windows 10 when it isn't supported (upgrade is currently free).With a grand total of less than $300 in upgrades (not counting the donated parts from my rig upgrades) it works easily as well as a prebuilt gen 10 system for what my kids do. It wouldn't do that without this M.2 ssd drive, and the <$60 cost is great.

Great product for the price, I use it on my Raspberry PI. fast and no issue to boot the PI.