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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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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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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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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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pchung6
10-19-2021 at 08:24 PM.
10-19-2021 at 08:24 PM.
Can someone please confirm for me if this one will work for the upgrade for my Early 2015 Macbook Pro that originally has 128gb and 8gb ram? I know I need to buy an $7-8 adapter from Amazon, can someone please also point me the best adapter I should buy with this WD SSD?Appreciate it.
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1BadBoy
10-19-2021 at 11:57 PM.
10-19-2021 at 11:57 PM.
Seems like the 1TB is a good deal at $95.
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charlesstuckjr
10-20-2021 at 03:19 AM.
10-20-2021 at 03:19 AM.
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.

Of course what doesn't go on sale bf
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forenslick
10-20-2021 at 06:23 AM.
10-20-2021 at 06:23 AM.
Can someone suggest a fast enclosure for this one? Thanks
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gamingdroid
10-20-2021 at 07:41 AM.
10-20-2021 at 07:41 AM.
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.
I hope so, because I'm looking for a SATA SSD for my Mac Pro 5,1
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xjjeep96
10-21-2021 at 12:48 AM.
10-21-2021 at 12:48 AM.
Quote from saipavan23 :
Is this a good ssd?
no...it's dram-less....VERY slow. compare it to a Samsung 870 read and write speeds....it's almost useless if you want fast.
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spaml
10-21-2021 at 04:09 PM.
10-21-2021 at 04:09 PM.
Quote from TroyJason :
Sweet 🎂 deal.

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

Reppd.

Thank you 💘
you have a link? to one cant find on google
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lovethemdeals
10-23-2021 at 07:08 AM.
10-23-2021 at 07:08 AM.
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.

Check camelcamelcamel to see any price drops around that time
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DelightfulMint1373
10-23-2021 at 09:14 AM.
10-23-2021 at 09:14 AM.
I'm a simple man. I see WD blue, I thumbs down.

Next time don't swap in inferior parts WD
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AD211
10-24-2021 at 08:11 PM.
10-24-2021 at 08:11 PM.
For those of you like me, torn over the dishonesty, know it's still a good drive, but wondering if there will be a better deal, I paid $45 at BB (PM'd from Amazon), and am going to let it sit there for a few weeks to see (and hope) something better goes on sale. Worst case scenario, I have a return polocy through 1/16 (or 1/31 via Amazon). That flexibility is worth the extra $3.

Everything on sale has a con right now - WD Black was $55 last week, but it has the same alleged speed degradation on writes, and is it worth extra for stuff 99% of us won't notice? Crucial P2, same downgrading shit. Crucial P5 for $55 runs super hot in most benchmarks. I'm building in a 3.3L case and need to be coignizant of that, even with a mobo M.2 heatsink.
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