500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive
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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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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
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This deal is $27.99 off (~40% savings) the retail list price of $69.99.
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This solid state drive has an impressive 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 14,028 customer reviews on Amazon.
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Western Digital[westerndigital.com] has the WD Blue SN550 NVMe 500GB SSD Solid State Drive for $42 w/ free shipping when you apply promo code 40OFF at checkout.
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.
DRAMless SSD FYI.
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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10-18-2021 at 10:59 AM.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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These were excellent drives, too.
Glad I bought mine October last year
Xactly
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Yes, they do.
Pop this in a fast external USB c case and you have excellent speedy backup and transfer.
Reppd.
Thank you 💘
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.
Yes, pretty much the top of the budget drives.