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500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive

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$42

$70

40% off
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Western Digital has 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD (WDS500G2B0C) on sale for $42 when you apply coupon code 40OFF at checkout. Shipping is free.

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Instructions:
  1. Click here to visit the product page
  2. Add item to cart and proceed to cart
  3. Apply coupon code 40OFF during checkout
  4. Price will be $49.99 - $7.99 coupon = $42 + free shipping
About this product:
  • Faster than most solid state drives the use the older SATA III interface.
  • Sequential Read 2,400 MB/s
  • Sequential Write 1,750 MB/s
  • Endurance (TBW) 300TBW
  • 5-Year Warranty

Editor's Notes

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  • About this deal:
    • This deal is $27.99 off (~40% savings) the retail list price of $69.99.
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $7.99 lower (15.98% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $49.99 and higher.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • This solid state drive has an impressive 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 14,028 customer reviews on Amazon.
  • About this store:
    • This product qualifies for Western Digital's 30-day return policy.

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Western Digital has 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD (WDS500G2B0C) on sale for $42 when you apply coupon code 40OFF at checkout. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter DLS4U for finding this deal.

Instructions:
  1. Click here to visit the product page
  2. Add item to cart and proceed to cart
  3. Apply coupon code 40OFF during checkout
  4. Price will be $49.99 - $7.99 coupon = $42 + free shipping
About this product:
  • Faster than most solid state drives the use the older SATA III interface.
  • Sequential Read 2,400 MB/s
  • Sequential Write 1,750 MB/s
  • Endurance (TBW) 300TBW
  • 5-Year Warranty

Editor's Notes

Written by BostonGirl
  • About this deal:
    • This deal is $27.99 off (~40% savings) the retail list price of $69.99.
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $7.99 lower (15.98% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $49.99 and higher.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • This solid state drive has an impressive 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 14,028 customer reviews on Amazon.
  • About this store:
    • This product qualifies for Western Digital's 30-day return policy.

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Bluskale
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it bears repeating that these SN550 NVMe have swapped in a slower component [tomshardware.com] starting around June of this year, so these now won't give you same performance as you'll see in older reviews.
Gompei
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DRAMless SSD FYI.
code65536
971 Posts
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Wow. That's not just "swapping in a slower component". That's a bloody downgrade from TLC to QLC. It places the drive in a whole new product tier. What the hell is the point of buying a mainstream-segment "WD Blue" drive when the drive now has the performance characteristics of the budget-segment "WD Green" drive?

This is the equivalent of buying a laptop with a 6-core Ryzen 5 but actually getting something with a 4-core Ryzen 3. And saying that you won't notice the difference between the old and new WD Blue until the SLC cache runs out is the same as saying, "Oh, but most people don't have a heavily-multithreaded workload to notice the difference between a Ryzen 5 and a Ryzen 3!" So? If you bought a mid-tier product, you should be getting a mid-tier product, not a budget-tier product deceptively labeled as a mid-tier product.

If WD is having supply issues and can't make enough TLC drives, then they should be selling more WD Greens. Instead of turning their more popular WD Blues into mislabeled WD Greens and pulling a fast one on their customers.

This should be an automatic deal-breaker for everyone. This is a trash-tier QLC drive now. Avoid it.

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Bluskale
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it bears repeating that these SN550 NVMe have swapped in a slower component [tomshardware.com] starting around June of this year, so these now won't give you same performance as you'll see in older reviews.
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DRAMless SSD FYI.
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badmonopoly
Oct 18, 2021
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Quote from Bluskale :
it bears repeating that these SN550 NVMe have swapped in a slower component [tomshardware.com] starting around June of this year, so these now won't give you same performance as you'll see in older reviews.
Adata did it, so why not 😠

These were excellent drives, too.
Oct 18, 2021
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Leozaya
Oct 18, 2021
155 Posts
Quote from Bluskale :
it bears repeating that these SN550 NVMe have swapped in a slower component [tomshardware.com] starting around June of this year, so these now won't give you same performance as you'll see in older reviews.
Glad I bought mine October last year
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Oct 18, 2021
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madein-china
Oct 18, 2021
96 Posts
Quote from Leozaya :
Glad I bought mine October last year
Xactly
Oct 19, 2021
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Nautian
Oct 19, 2021
1,009 Posts
Do SSDs tend to go on sale during Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Looking to put one of these in an external enclosure for MacBook.
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saipavan23
Oct 19, 2021
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Is this a good ssd?
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Oct 19, 2021
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Golgatha
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Quote from Leozaya :
Glad I bought mine October last year
Same, except mine was Sept 2020.
Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 19, 2021
trza
Oct 19, 2021
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Quote from Nautian :
Do SSDs tend to go on sale during Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Looking to put one of these in an external enclosure for MacBook.
Yes, they do.
Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 19, 2021
Guayaco36
Oct 19, 2021
27 Posts
Anyone knows if this would work on a PS5?
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Oct 19, 2021
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Oct 19, 2021
euuser612761
Oct 19, 2021
781 Posts
Sweet 🎂 deal.

Pop this in a fast external USB c case and you have excellent speedy backup and transfer.

Reppd.

Thank you 💘
Oct 19, 2021
991 Posts
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smackdownfletch
Oct 19, 2021
991 Posts
Quote from Nautian :
Do SSDs tend to go on sale during Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Looking to put one of these in an external enclosure for MacBook.
The 1TB SanDisk deal for $99 is what I did. Already enclosed, great read write speeds. You'll spend more using your own enclosure usually, and the performance difference is pretty minimal unless you shell out for a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure.
Oct 19, 2021
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DarthCY
Oct 19, 2021
930 Posts
Quote from saipavan23 :
Is this a good ssd?
Yes, pretty much the top of the budget drives.
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nosurprisespls
Oct 19, 2021
454 Posts
Quote from Nautian :
Do SSDs tend to go on sale during Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Looking to put one of these in an external enclosure for MacBook.
The price of SSDs are expected to drop by 10% in Q4 of this year according to trendforce.

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Quote from Guayaco36 :
Anyone knows if this would work on a PS5?
It will NOT. The drive must be PCI Express 4.0 to be PS5 compatible.
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