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500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive Expired
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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
- 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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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.
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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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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.
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.
They've been this way for a long time, and they're not getting better, they're getting worse. They will cheat you every chance they get, and this was also recently confirmed with them selling SMR drives to unsuspecting people.
Lest anyone forget or didn't know because they're noobs and too new to all of this, RED drives were originally GREEN drives with a new label and sold at a higher price. They may have made a small firmware tweak, but they didn't even take it as far as changing the info the drive reported when queried. I mean, when you can sell a crappy chevy as a real car and get away with it, why not? Just check your ethics at the door (if you had any) and you're good to go.
There is NO bottom to how low WD can and will sink when it comes to cheating people and stealing their money. Every year their inveterate behavior produces a new theft so they should be viewed with caution. Let's hear it for corporate America.
Again, I'm not saying the workers, I'm saying management is scum.
They've been this way for a long time, and they're not getting better, they're getting worse. They will cheat you every chance they get
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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.
Should be fine just needs a heat sink
Yeah, I understand why you ask, and it's troubling to me, however, who else builds commonly available drives for a reasonable price? No one; we don't have any real choice is the answer.
Seacrap Digression - At least WD can build a hard drive and have it last a while, compared to seacrap that just can't. Yes, I know, Backblaze, etc. and I have had a small sample size, but every drive I've purchased from them met an early death causing headaches, so that's my empirical evidence.
Many won't remember this or possibly never knew, but seacrap got so bad that their warranty dropped to "2000 hours". That wasn't 2000 actual usage hours, that was "power on time". IOW, if you bought a drive, hooked it up and left your computer on, your warranty was gone in under 3 months. Seriously, what kind of product were they building that it had to have such a short warranty? Wait, I already know the answer.
None of this changes WD's slimy behavior. Who else would do theses things except an unethical company? Do you see Tesla swapping out their batteries for garbage after they get some reviews? What about AMD? Do they release a new processor and then substitute one with fewer cores after the reviews? What other purportedly *reputable* company sells a drive with a new label and calls it a new product (green -> red)? The chinese don't count because many of their companies are unethical, and I take it for granted.
Toshiba/Hitachi are not commonly available, nor as affordable. When SSDs are big enough and the technology long lasting enough to displace hard drives, I'll do it {and yes, I have many SSDs in different computers, but I have 120+ TBs of drives).
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