Testseek.co.uk have collected 60 expert reviews of the Western Digital M.2 2280 Blue SN500 Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital M.2 2280 Blue SN500 Series NVMe PCIe.
May 2019
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The editors liked
NVMe at affordable prices
Solid all-round performance
Five-year warranty
Good Performance for Entry-Level NVMe
Good looking
Large heatsink
Up to 2TB capacity
High Endurance Rating
Great performance for a value drive
Good price
Cheaper than their SATA M.2 alternatives
No wires
Neutral
- Faster drives are available
Cheap
Speedy
NVMe specification
Highly affordable
Speedy performance
Great value
Well priced for an entry level NVMe drive
Price
5-year warranty
The editors didn't like
1TB model
None
“Western Digital WD Blue SN500 delivers a solid performance for casual gaming rigs as well as office systems.”
Published: 2019-06-25, Author: Adam , review by: itpro.co.uk
Abstract: Storage is an often-overlooked part of computing. The speed of your hard drive can make a big difference to how fast your computer feels, particularly when it comes to booting up and opening apps. SSDs have played a huge part in making devices feel snappy...
Published: 2019-06-20, Author: James , review by: itpro.co.uk
Highly affordable, Speedy performance, Great value
Limited capacity options
The WD BLue SN500 finally brings NVMe support to this beloved family of highly affordable M.2 SSDs, resulting in a brilliant-value package that offers great performance as well...
Published: 2019-05-23, Author: Simon , review by: kitguru.net
Well priced for an entry level NVMe drive, Price, 5-year warranty
No 1TB model in the family, DRAM-less design effects random performance
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.The new Blue SN500 is the first NVMe drive to carry the Blue label and it marks a change...
No 1TB option, Not as speedy as certain competitors
Otherwise, however, there's very little in it. That's no bad thing: both of these drives are cheap yet fast, offering performance in the most common file transfer tasks (rather than purely sequential tests) that's just a couple of steps down from the very...
Great performance for a value drive, Good price, Cheaper than their SATA M.2 alternatives, No wires, Neutral, - Faster drives are available
500GB maximum capacity
Western Digital were late to the NVMe SSD game, but it appears they've spent their time getting things right the first time around. The Black SN750 models have proven to be excellent in the enthusiast scene and now with their budget Blue SN500 options, we...
Good Performance for Entry-Level NVMe, Good looking, Large heatsink, Up to 2TB capacity, High Endurance Rating,
None, “Western Digital WD Blue SN500 delivers a solid performance for casual gaming rigs as well as office systems.”, Western Digital WD Blue 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review, Thank you, Western Digital, for providing us with this sample,
The terms entry-level and budget have changed and gotten a new meaning since NVMe drives entered the market. We get very well-performing drives for relatively little money. At least when we compare it to what it was not long ago.Western Digital created an...
Abstract: This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD's TLC 3D NAND alongside the company's own homebrew controller tech. And that makes for a mea...
Published: 2019-03-29, Author: Andrew , review by: techteamgb.co.uk
Abstract: This is the WD SN500 – their “blue” NVME SSD. For those of you so familiar with WD's naming scheme, it goes like this. “Black” is their highest performing drive in that category, so their Black SN750 SSD I reviewed a few months ago is a good bit faster th...
NVMe at affordable prices, Solid all-round performance, Five-year warranty
1TB model
NVMe SSDs have predominantly focussed on the enthusiast end of the market, where ludicrously quick benchmark results have made SATA solutions feel poor in comparison.Yet while the very best drives are undoubtedly fast, there's an opportunity for mid-r...
Western Digital has entered this market with a broad range of capacities to complement the varying degrees of the storage potential in the average user (for NASes with PCIe/M.2 expandability available by default), starting with capacities as low as 250GB...
