WD_BLACK 2TB SN770 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS200T3X0E

I bought a used gaming PC and it was unbelievably slow. I did some research, and decided to make the HDD a secondary storage drive, and install a new SSD for my games and my boot drive.This seems to be the best value for the money. Very easy install, and my computer is waaaaay faster now. I barely know anything about computer assembly, and it was still easy.It used to take upwards of 3-5 minutes to boot up my computer, and now it takes 10 seconds max. Highly recommend switching over, if youre on the fence about it.

I needed more space, didn't want to spend a lot. The world seems to be strapping more and more m.2 slots to things so I thought I couldn't go wrong with this it had a lot of decent reviews. That being said. I should have researched more prior to buying because like a week after I got it I realized I could have gotten a way faster drive with the same amount of storage for the same price if not cheaper... so buyer beware. But I just use it to store some movies, music and games so it's more than capable of that for now anyways.

Works good, easy to install; be weary you need to make sure the "stand off" is in the right spot or it's even there. Mine was pre-installed on my computer. The drive should sit parallel with the motherboard/circuit board; don't push it down too far. I've always had good luck with Western Digital storage products, even their old WD black edition mechanical hard drives. I have never had a Western Digital drive fail on me yet, still have my old 640GB black drives from 2010. Magnet screwdriver is really recommended to install this drive, the retaining screw is VERY small. Be careful not to cross thread it as well. No DRAM on the drive but does use HMB (Host-based Memory Buffer) for speedy operation. Works great for gaming. Love the black color, matches my all black computer theme well. Doesn't seem to run hot at all, haven't seen anything over 50C while gaming (these usually mount near a very hot graphics card (if you have one) in desktop computers). All in all decent price for pretty good performance. If your a gamer the money saved here could go to something really useful like a bigger graphics card, more system RAM (memory) or next tier up CPU. The "SSD Dashboard" app is decent as well, shows drive spec's, health, used and available space, interface speed supported, interface speed connected, S.M.A.R.T tests, temps, if "DirectStorage" is supported, checks and updates drive firmware as well and a bunch of other stuff. It's one of the last good apps that you can select to "not start up automatically". It'll show other installed drives as well but doesn't show any info on them if they aren't Western Digital. All in all a good purchase.