Customer Ratings & Reviews

One of the best "bang for the buck" NVMe drives out there right now! Below is the Crystal Disk Scores for this drive, and coming from a "traditional" SATA SSD to this is like putting nitrous on your Toyota Tercel! And it won't even blow up the motor! Highly reccomended at this price point (64.99 USD at time of review and purchase). You will want a heatsink (Most newer desktop MoBo's comme with one for the NVMe slot, as this drive does get a little warm.)

I use this ssd just to run my OS. It has enough space and is fast enough to hand all of windows slow task.

Western Digital. Good price-performance on the old mainboard. Run a little hotter than 2.5 in SSD

This is a great drive, I’m using it for my OS an it’s super fast.

Usin this as a combo in my laptop they work good.

Everything went smooth, and simple. Crack open the laptop, slap the new stick in there, pin it shut again, and initialize it in Windows. Easy. Hoever, "500gb" is VERY much misleading, and false. It's a purposefully misleading calculation that storage media companies do, based on saying that a kilobyte is one thousand bytes. But when you install it, you see what it really is, because computers (and people who aren't working for the storage media company) know that a kilobyte is one thousand and twenty-four bytes. This drive is not a "500gb" drive. It's a "465gb" drive, and that's how much storage space you will have. As long as you keep that in mind, you'll be quite happy with this product.

this worked great. does not come with the SSD NVME screw so make sure your motherboard has one on it already or you will need to buy it (most nvme cards do not come with it). My disk mark score went from a 1350 with std ide harddrive to 22000 with this drive. even going from a std SSD drive scre went from 4500 to 22000.

I installed WD Black SN750 500gb as my main drive instead of the 256gb Samsung 970 Evo I had in there before. I can't tell any difference in performance or speed at all, and I use my computer daily editing video for work.

It is fast and bet than a moving part hard drive I love it

Not a drive I would have bought, but it came with the 3900x processor. No complaints, but I'm not a pro :(

The WD-Black SN750 provides a ton of speed for a little Pocket Money. The latest version of Western Digital’s gaming SSD comes with updated firmware that boosts its performance. The WD-Black SN750 is a 500GB Internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) M.2. 2280 3D TLC NAND Solid State Drive. The WD-Black SN750 package also includes an updated SSD Dashboard software package which is top notch stuff. Notable Dashboard Features: - Provides drive cloning - Gaming Mode - In-depth Status Reporting - Performance charting - Full set of Drive Tool Utilities - Settings options Crystal Disk Mark 6.0.2 x64 reported: Sequential Read: 3496.915 MB/s Sequential Write: 2609.302 MB/s These numbers were consistent (this is the average) through a dozen test runs. Strong numbers in the top tier of the latest SSD drive offerings on the market. The test computer: SSD WDS500G3X0C-00SJG0 SSD Driver 10.0.17763.1 (WinBuild. 160101.0800) Motherboard ASUS Maximus IX Code Chipset Z270 CPU i7-7700K Bios American Megatrends 1301 OS Windows 10 Pro Build 10.0.17763 GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition The test computer is a couple generations old and I wonder if the Sequential Write numbers may have been a bit better on a newer chipset? This I will find out when our next gaming laptop arrives with 9th generation tech. Do not believe you can find more bang for the buck on the market, high marks for performance and capacity at a very low entry price. In fact, you would pay significantly more for a small performance bump that is virtually indistinguishable. Includes Five Year Warranty to boot. The WD-Black SN750 is aimed directly at gamers and performance driven users, and it delivers solid numbers through extended testing. If you are looking for Top Shelve Performance from a Solid company with a Brilliant History in drive manufacture and like to keep some of your money in your own pocket, then the SN750 should be one of the easiest decisions you will ever make. Game On!

As with everything in computers, if you want the latest and greatest, it comes with a price. It also means that you have to make sure that your components will operate together properly. Sometimes, things can be simple, sometimes they may seem simple but get frustrating afterwards. I learned the hard way that upgrading to an M.2 NVMe isn’t as easy as just hooking up a new SATA hard drive and cloning it. Through a frustrating evening, I found it much easier just to start from scratch with a fresh Windows install after some BIOS settings changed. Now everything is zooming along. My system: ASUS PRIME Z390-P motherboard Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Processor 32 GB DDR4-3200 Memory Module-ADATA XPG Z NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB GDDR6 500 GB WD Blue SSD -- Read: 540MB/s, Write: 500MB/s 4 TB Toshiba Hard Drive -- 64MB Cache, 7200RPM w/ 32GB Intel Optane Memory-Boost Data Drive With the speeds for M.2 drives, I really wanted to get one, but the prices were much steeper than they are now. So, I didn’t opt for one when I built the machine. When looking at the WD BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD motherboard compatibility sheet, my motherboard is not listed. However, looking at the ASUS specs, I verified I have the M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 available. Although, the drive is backwards compatible with everything down to 2.0 x1, you still need the M keyed socket with the 80mm length (2280-M). They also have it listed here as “for Laptop” or “for Desktop”, though the only difference is with or without heatsink. If you are getting this for a desktop PC, you mostly likely have the space for the added thickness of the heatsink. I would highly recommend it, as thing thing runs fairly hot, just over 60°C while gaming without the heatsink. For laptops, you are probably not going to have the additional space for it. Without dragging on with details, my frustration was that I cloned my SATA SSD to the NVMe SSD, ran a PC Mark 10 test, then booted on the NVMe drive. I did another PC Mark test and then wiped my SATA HDD. I noticed the gaming mode in the Western Digital SSD Dashboard app and figured I would give it a try. The computer required a reboot and the NVMe was not being recognized as a bootable device. With lots of Google research, it came down to a BIOS setting and required a new Windows install. As for the PC Mark 10 tests, I was not impressed in speed difference between my SATA SSD and the NVMe SSD. The overall score only went up by 0.9% while the gaming and digital content creation scores actually went down. However, after the fresh Windows install the overall score increased by 2.9%, however, the gaming score was only better by 0.1%. That type of difference really is not noticable. Disabling the windows cache and enabling game mode didn’t really make much of a difference either. Breaking the scores down shows where the read and write speed really come in. When opening applications and saving items it increased speeds by nearly 50%. But, that is going from 1.869 seconds to 0.981 seconds. I also ran a CrystalDiskMark speed test on all of my installed drives, and you can see in the attached pictures the results of those. The sequential read/write speeds are blazing fast while the random tests depending on queues and threads start looking about the same as the drive supported by Intel Optane and my original SSD. Regardless, they are all so much faster than a standard SATA hard disk drive. In normal game playing, the only time I can slightly notice a difference is in the initial loading of a game and when loading parts of the game, such as changing zones. In Destiny 2, my friend always seemed 2-5 seconds behind me, even on the SATA SSD and the NVMe SSD feels about the same if not a second faster. So, if that one second of loading time is what you are looking for, then this could be that difference. Another comparison to a standard drive is that you get 5 years or 300TB written warranty. Which is longer than most other drive types. Bottom line, this little drive is more than impressive and will certainly speed things up. Just know that technological issues I had aren't because of the drive itself, but correlation with other components.

Short review: this Black SN750 ssd has been a speedy and stable upgrade. I recommend it to anyone with the hardware to support it. It worked instantly and has reduced my system boot times significantly. Longer: I have been interested in an NVME SSD drive for a while, but I was always somewhat hesitant: 1). Would it work on my PC? To know, best method is to check with your computer / motherboard manufacturer. You need an NVME slot. My laptop had a slot, but I only found out it had the right slot by searching google for my exact laptop model and nvme. The manufacturer of my PC had been very vague, but they had released several firmware updates tweaking NVME performance which told me there was probably a slot there. Again, most most motherboard manufacturers (gigabyte, MSI, ASRock, ASUS) will tell you, but with a pre-manufactured PC, you may have to do some sleuthing online to figure it out. Some things to check in your research: you'll need to know whether the slot on your main board is B key, M key, or B+M key, in addition to the overall form factor in mm width and length (2230, 2242, 2260, or 2280). Your board should support m.2 2280 and PCI-Express X4 for the NVME to use this drive. Also make sure you have the latest firmware for your particular device. 2) Installation: installation difficulty will vary depending on the manufacturer of your PC. To get my laptop upgraded, I had to remove all screws and then release clips along the side to expose the main board and the NVME slot. There is no m.2 screw included with this drive and I had to take a screw from the existing hard drive mount to secure the drive. 3) Performance: as stated above, performance has been great. My machine boots in a matter of seconds. It has been a great upgrade compared to the stock HD that came preinstalled. It does run a bit hot, but hasn’t been dangerously so. WD software requires .net framework installed. I greatly recommend this drive, but make sure you have the necessary mounting screw or that you can acquire one fairly easily.

Great NVME drive, its actually as fast as advertised. I ran a Crystal disk benchmark and you can see the pics. I actually bought a heatsink for it since I have an SLI setup and the drive is under both video cards, it would have cooked there, and when NVME drives are hot, they throttle down. Western digital also sells a version with a heat sink if you need it. Western digital has an app where you can upgrade firmware, monitor the drive's health and enable "gaming mode" which turns off any power savings for maximum performance (I found I didn't need to, as the drive is already super fast!.

This is my first time upgrading to an SSD ( Sandisk X400 M.2 2280 128GB) to another SDD (Sn750) and I had quite a straight forward experience. Installing this into my Alienware 15 R3 was a breeze and just involved opening the bottom, putting the card in and seating it carefully into any of the available SSD slots although you should ideally ensure that your board supports Nvme and find which of your specific ssd slots supports it to obtain the best performance. I decided against a fresh operating system (os) install and decided to clone my drive, which also went very smoothly, so no complaints there. I am running Windows 10 Home 64-bit Edition. When it comes to performance I have nothing but praise. Cold booting (from a turned off) into the operator system was very snappy, taking between 10-13 seconds consistently whereas before it took me around 30 secs. When I tested it I got consistent read speeds around 1700 MB/s and write speeds around 1200 - 1500 MB/s. This performance continued over into when I played games. All the games I played , Far Cry New Dawn, Wolfenstein 2 amd Overcooked 2, booted much faster than before and I seemed to have an overall smoother experience when running at max specs. Even under heavy load and consistent use the SN750 didn't heat up much and that was a surprise. Overall I have to say that this was a decent upgrade and I have nothing to complain about and would definitely recommend. Below you will find the stats for my pc. Processor - Intel 7th Generation Core i7 Base Speed - 2.8 Ghz, Max 3.8Ghz Processor Model Number i7-7700HQ Cores - Quad-Core, Cache - 6 MB Storage - HDD(1TB), SDD(128GB) Ram - 16GB DDR4 SDRAM

Already pretty familiar solid state drives (SSD) in a few of my devices, I was eager to upgrade my existing small M.2 NVMe SSD to something with a higher capacity, enough to clone my existing Desktop computer drive to the SSD. This type of clone operation (which copies your current Windows boot drive where the operating system is kept) from a spinning desk yields a drastic performance gain. If you are not comfortable with opening a PC (or laptop) and getting into the innards of a device then this is not a self-installable item. Especially if you want to replace the existing hard drive which contains the operating system (Windows). The Western digital documentation provides a download location for cloning (copying) software, they provide a stripped down version of Acronis which provides the necessary tools to back up your device either by partition or whole drive. Acronis is simple to use, but you do need to have a moderate understanding of disk drives and partitions. Being in IT, I already had a high level of confidence in performing the swap. After my experience though, I highly recommend that you migrate from a smaller capacity drive to a higher capacity SSD. Since my spinning disk was 1TB and the SSD was 500GB I had to rely on Acronis to “smart shrink” each of the partitions. It was able to do this, but each time I wound up with a non bootable SSD, even after changing my system’s BIOS settings to boot off the SSD. I also tried several other software utilities such as Clonezilla and Macrium Reflect none yielded a copy of the OS partition that was able to boot (or in Disk Manager – indicate the partition as bootable). I even shrunk my Operating System to something that would fit on the target SSD without “shrinking a partition” and still no go. At one point I was going to quit the effort and just use the drive as a location for source and output files for video editing. This use case still yields good performance; however it was not quite what I was looking to do. Eventually I gave in and decided to reinstall Windows on the SSD drive (using Windows UEFI recovery) and all was good. The process was a little messy however, on the plus side I did wind up with a desktop computer that had substantially increased performance, which booted to a usable Windows 10 Desktop in 15 seconds. This a drastic improvement over the minute or so it took my spinning disk to boot and load Windows. I also included some screen shots of disk performance benchmarks from my: - original 7200 RPM spinning disk which came with the computer - a lower capacity SSD (from a company that also makes televisions and smartphones) which overall had the best read performance. - the subject of this review: a WD - Black SN750 NVMe SSD 500GB Internal PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) Solid State Drive which overall had better write performance. You will notice a drastic performance improvement in the benchmarks, but not much between the two SSD. Again, if you are a novice, don’t expect to purchase a new SSD and successfully tackle this type of project. Pros: - Decent price - Substantial performance improvement over traditional spinning hard drives - Best in class SSD performance - Acronis software is provided (although it has to be downloaded) to help clone or backup your existing drive. Cons: - Installation can be tricky - Downloadable software didn’t really work from a going from a larger spinning disk to a smaller SSD. - Understanding of cloning, backups and Operating System fundamentals is required (recommend professional installation for non-technical users)

I was so excited to get it but the speed test was not what as I expected

First thing I do is check the speeds and what this supports as it is advertised to support TRIM which is a major necessity for SSDs and mine does not. It only supports S.M.A.R.T so 1/5th of what my other cheap drives support. Do not buy.

--- INSTALLATION--- The installation of the WD NVMe SN750 SSD drive depends on your laptop. You do want to check that your laptop is compatible with NVMe first. If it is, I highly recommend that you go to Western Digital’s website and download the Acronis True Image free software from their site which will allow you to clone your Windows before removing your old SSD. I installed my NVMe M.2 in an ACER Nitro AN515-53 Processor: Intel Core i5-8300H CPU @ 2.3 GHz, Windows 10 64-bit ---FEATURES--- The key feature of this SSD is that it can have read speeds of up to 3470 MB/s. At the Western Digital website, you can also find the drivers for this SSD which will provide you with SSD Black Dashboard. The dashboard is great to look at your SSD’s performance at a glance such as free vs used spaced, temperature of your SSD, and life remaining in it. This is also where you can turn Gaming Mode on for your SSD which will, “disable the low power mode function on the SSD to keeps your drive firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions,” as per the WD website. This SSD also features a heatsink which keeps its operation at optimal temperature while gaming. ---PERFORMANCE--- The performance of this SSD is blazingly fast. From off state to desktop, I clocked it at 6.5 seconds. In terms of reading #s I downloaded Crystal Disk Mark and the sequential I consistently got was read speeds of 3415-3440. Write speeds averaged at 2570+. Actually running games, though, was impressive. In multiplayer games like PUBG or Hunt: Showdown, I often found myself waiting while other players loaded into the lobby. In single player games like Resident Evil 2 Remake, after each death or from level to level, I barely got to see the loading screen, and that I enjoyed very much, as the game became more immersive. ---EXPECTATIONS--- The product exceeds my expectations. This was the first time that I installed an SSD upgrade to my gaming laptop and I was pleasantly surprised at the results. I am now taking my laptop everywhere I can to get a gaming session in, since I am not waiting as much as I was before. ---VALUE--- The price for the WD NVMe in terms of value is competitive vs. others of its kind in the market. I have purchased several WD branded external hard drives and they haven’t failed me yet, so I don’t expect this one to either. ---APPROVAL--- I highly recommend this product for gamers who want more gaming time and less waiting time. Even day to day mundane tasks like opening files will seem speedier, because they are.

I used this hard drive to upgrade my 2019 HP Spectre X360, which already has an M.2 hard drive installed. My original Hard drive was pretty fast but this hard drive was slightly faster. Initially, I ran into a stumbling block which was needing a USB M.2 enclosure and cloning software. If I was starting new build I wouldn't have needed them however, an operating system was not something I wanted to buy right now. With that being said, When I had the tools necessary to clone my drive, the install was a super simple. The hard drive started right up and like I said earlier, it was faster but only slightly. The major improvement on the drive were the write speeds. I went from 3177/1322 MBPS sequential read writes to 3414/2586 MBPS. I also had the opportunity to test this in a USB C M.2 enclosure. This is where the drive really shines. The fastest read/writes I got on traditional external SSD was 539/532 MBPS. With this hard drive, I was able to get 913/931 MBPS read and writes. When it comes to gaming, if you are upgrading from a SATA Drive, you WILL notice blazing fast load times and if you use it as a portable drive for your Xbox you will also notice the same. My final thoughts, if you want to upgrade your computer, or just want a super fast portable SSD, this is the drive to get.