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Available Options:
- WD Blue 2.5" SATA III:
- WD Blue SN550 NVME:
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Select WD Blue Solid State Drives on sale for the prices listed below.
Shipping is free.
Available options:
- WD Blue 2.5" SATA III:
- WD Blue SN550 NVME:
SATA Features:
- Sequential Read 560MB/s
- Sequential Write 530MB/s
- Random Read (IOPS) 95K
- Random Write (IOPS) 4 TB Model: 82K; 500 Gb, 1 TB, 2 TB Models: 84K
- Endurance (TBW)
- 500 GB Model: 200 TBW
- 1 TB Model: 400 TBW
- 2 TB Model: 500 TBW
- 4 TB Model: 600 TBW
- 3-Year Warranty
NVME Features:
- Faster than a SATA III SSD
- Sequential Read 2,400 MBps
- Sequential Write 1,750 MBps
- Random Read (IOPS) 300,000 IOPS
- Random Write (IOPS) 200,000 IOPS
- Endurance (TBW) 300TBW
- 5-Year Warranty
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Relative to a mechanical hard drive it'll be way faster. Relative to other SSDs it may be faster or slower but the difference will be much smaller.
Blue SATA is probably the same as the variable BOM Sandisk SSD Plus drives. I have multiple of those used as replacements for mechanical drives and they've been fine.
Blue SN550 NVMe has gotten fairly good reviews as one of the fastest DRAMless drives. Example [tomshardware.com]from Tom's hardware. It's uses HMB so it will use up some of you system RAM though.
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Relative to a mechanical hard drive it'll be way faster. Relative to other SSDs it may be faster or slower but the difference will be much smaller.
Blue SATA is probably the same as the variable BOM Sandisk SSD Plus drives. I have multiple of those used as replacements for mechanical drives and they've been fine.
Blue SN550 NVMe has gotten fairly good reviews as one of the fastest DRAMless drives. Example [tomshardware.com]from Tom's hardware. It's uses HMB so it will use up some of you system RAM though.
Definitely not built for chia mining. It's a good choice for normal PC usage
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Relative to a mechanical hard drive it'll be way faster. Relative to other SSDs it may be faster or slower but the difference will be much smaller.
Blue SATA is probably the same as the variable BOM Sandisk SSD Plus drives. I have multiple of those used as replacements for mechanical drives and they've been fine.
Blue SN550 NVMe has gotten fairly good reviews as one of the fastest DRAMless drives. Example [tomshardware.com]from Tom's hardware. It's uses HMB so it will use up some of you system RAM though.
The wd blue 2.5 sata have dram. The sn550 m.2 sata do not.
These are actually also sold as the Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD. I had forgotten that WD has the even lower performance Green line.
In any case, I'm still wondering if / when we'll ever get back to the ~$80 1TB NVMe pricing from around Nov 2019. That was drives like the SX8200 with DRAM too.
do note that if you play games, some bad multiplayer anticheats will write multiple terabytes in one game session