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

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$39

$55

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Lenovo has 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD (WDS500G2B0C) on sale for $38.47. Shipping is free. To earn Slickdeals Cashback, before purchase, follow the cashback instructions below (PC extension required, before checkout).

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Features:
  • Sequential Read 2,400 MB/s
  • Sequential Write 1,750 MB/s
  • Endurance (TBW) 300TBW

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  • About this deal:
    • This price is $16.53 lower (30% savings) than the list price of $55.
  • About this product:
    • 5-Year Warranty
    • Rating of 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 14,028 customer reviews on Amazon.
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Lenovo has 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive SSD (WDS500G2B0C) on sale for $38.47. Shipping is free. To earn Slickdeals Cashback, before purchase, follow the cashback instructions below (PC extension required, before checkout).

Thanks to Community Member enplaned for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Sequential Read 2,400 MB/s
  • Sequential Write 1,750 MB/s
  • Endurance (TBW) 300TBW

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $16.53 lower (30% savings) than the list price of $55.
  • About this product:
    • 5-Year Warranty
    • Rating of 4.5 out of 5 star rating based on 14,028 customer reviews on Amazon.
  • About this store:
    • Details of Lenovo's return policy here.

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Baconzillaz
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I remember reading something about WD downgrading their nand or something that reduced performance. Might want to look into that.

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Kyle_F3
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$35 after military discount, pretty great deal for 500GB of NVME.
Dec 9, 2021
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SDBuddy
Dec 9, 2021
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Slick price! About $4 cheaper than BF at western digital
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x_workman_x
Dec 9, 2021
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Can anyone tell me what the pros and/or cons would be if I got this over the best buy refurbished Samsung 980 500gb?
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Quote from x_workman_x :
Can anyone tell me what the pros and/or cons would be if I got this over the best buy refurbished Samsung 980 500gb?
I remember reading something about WD downgrading their nand or something that reduced performance. Might want to look into that.
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x_workman_x
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Quote from Baconzillaz :
I remember reading something about WD downgrading their nand or something that reduced performance. Might want to look into that.
Thank you
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KMFers
Dec 9, 2021
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Thanks. Bought one. $4 cheaper than Amazon.
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smartdeals
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read/write speed?
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Leon1330
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3500 / 3200
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Jaggsta
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Quote from smartdeals :
read/write speed?
Sustained Writes slow as Top SATA SSDs around 399MB/s since it has no DRAM.

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Spe...B0C-00PXH0
Last edited by Jaggsta December 9, 2021 at 01:54 PM.
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enplaned
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Quote from Leon1330 :
3500 / 3200
2400/1750 MB/s - here's the WD datasheet (see middle column of pg 2):

https://documents.westerndigital....sd-idk.pdf
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arrogantworks
Dec 9, 2021
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Heck of a price, but need a 2.5" SATA version... darn.
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changkoh
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Quote from Baconzillaz :
I remember reading something about WD downgrading their nand or something that reduced performance. Might want to look into that.
yup.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news...c-runs-out

Not that most users would notice and other vendors like Crucial, ADATA, Patriot, have all done it. This however doesn't excuse this type of behavior.

you'll need to check the writing on the NAND flash and or check firmware to determine if you have the crippled flash or the older ones.
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BreakDeal
Dec 9, 2021
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Is this good for OS drive? why is so cheap compared to samsung?
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ign0ramus
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Quote from BreakDeal :
Is this good for OS drive? why is so cheap compared to samsung?

"Blue" is WD's budget line of drives, and this one has pretty darn slow r/w speeds. If you're coming from a traditional spinning platter HDD, this will be great as an OS drive. Prices are cheap because there is no drive shortage (at least at the moment), with a ton of different players. I've seen good prices on Sabrent and Samsung drives too. A lot of people are looking for very fast NVME's with heat sink in order to upgrade the PS5 storage, so there's probably not much demand for lower-tier drives like this one

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Quote from x_workman_x :
Can anyone tell me what the pros and/or cons would be if I got this over the best buy refurbished Samsung 980 500gb?

Here's a quick comparison of the two items:
https://versus.com/en/samsung-970...n550-500gb
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