WD Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C 512 GB
 | Outdated Product Medium speed consumer M.2 SSD in the third generation WD Blue product family. It has a significant usable volume (500 GB), designed for connection to an M.2 port with a PCIe Gen3 4x interface with NVMe v1.3 support. It is designed as a compact M.2 2280 open-frame device. It is positioned as a product of the middle price category in 2019, focused on use in consumer PCs, low-cost workstations, gaming systems, laptops, mini-PCs and HTPCs. The hardware platform of the WD Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C SSD is SanDisk's multi-channel bufferless controller, which works in conjunction with Toshiba's high-tech 96-layer 3D TLC NAND BiCS4 flash memory from Toshiba. It supports SMART monitoring, NCQ, TRIM technologies and high-speed SLC caching of records with a 12 GB buffer. The performance of the drive is q...uite enough for the vast majority of scenarios for domestic and professional use. Due to the multiple acceleration of the loading of levels and assets of large open game worlds, it will be useful for gamers. The guaranteed resource claimed by the manufacturer (300 GB) is equivalent to daily recording of 80 GB of data for 10 years. |
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Medium speed consumer M.2 SSD in the third generation WD Blue product family. It has a significant usable volume (500 GB), designed for connection to an M.2 port with a PCIe Gen3 4x interface with NVMe v1.3 support. It is designed as a compact M.2 2280 open-frame device. It is positioned as a product of the middle price category in 2019, focused on use in consumer PCs, low-cost workstations, gaming systems, laptops, mini-PCs and HTPCs.
The hardware platform of the WD Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C SSD is SanDisk's multi-channel bufferless controller, which works in conjunction with Toshiba's high-tech 96-layer 3D TLC NAND BiCS4 flash memory from Toshiba. It supports SMART monitoring, NCQ, TRIM technologies and high-speed SLC caching of records with a 12 GB buffer. The performance of the drive is quite enough for the vast majority of scenarios for domestic and professional use. Due to the multiple acceleration of the loading of levels and assets of large open game worlds, it will be useful for gamers. The guaranteed resource claimed by the manufacturer (300 GB) is equivalent to daily recording of 80 GB of data for 10 years.
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nice choice for 9800! NVMe warranty 5 years it gets very hot and needs cooling.  By_Sg: use WD WDS100T2B0C less than month |
fast, cheap NVMe. I bought it for the system. After 2 months, the computer started to lag for 3-5 seconds. Within 6 months of use, it increased to once an hour. I started searching for the root of the problem, it turned out it's dropping the speed.  Fil Aleksey: use WD WDS250G2B0C few months |
WD Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C configurations
| Price for WD Blue SN550 WDS500G2B0C | ||||
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 | WD Blue SN550 WDS200T2B0C 2 TB | from £310.82 | 3 offers | |
| WD Blue SN550 WDS250G2B0C 256 GB | from £58.08 | 1 offer | |
Proprietary Controller from Sandisk
The WD Blue SN550 is built on the latest controller developed by SanDisk, codenamed 20-82-01008-A1. Remember, WD acquired SanDisk a few years ago. The flash memory is represented by a single chip also manufactured by SanDisk.
Impressive Speed
While the linear speeds of the WD Blue SN550 are not record-breaking, they are still quite impressive: 2400 MB/s for reading and up to 1750 MB/s for writing. Even after filling the virtual SLC cache, the sequential write speed remains fairly high—around 900 MB/s. In this regard, it significantly surpasses "budget" M.2 SSDs, which can drop to modest speeds of 300–400 MB/s when copying large files such as game distributions and 4K movies. A quality controller paired with high-density memory allows the WD Blue to handle tiny files at speeds of up to 300,000 IOPS. Again, compared to the top models like WB Black and Samsung EVO, these numbers aren't particularly impressive, but for affordable models, these metrics are excellent. For people working with conditional databases, this is much more important than sequential write/read speeds and issues with an overfilled buffer.
Nothing Extra
To reduce costs, WD removed the metal heatsink from the drive and eliminated a separate DRAM buffer chip. A small buffer is left directly in the controller. The decision regarding the buffer is quite reasonable; performance drops will occur anyway, affecting all SSDs. Additionally, cooling is not particularly needed, as the temperature level does not exceed 50 degrees Celsius under prolonged load. Without a heatsink, it is easier to install in a laptop or an M.2 motherboard slot, which are often placed close to the graphics card slot. However, the five-year warranty was not reduced to three years.