Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great addition to my new rog ally with so little built in space it’s nice to have the option to expand my gaming pleasure

Worked well in my laptop and the price was pretty decent as well.

Purchased to upgrade Dell Latitude 7440. Seemed to work out of the box and extremely fast. However my laptop started to freeze up periodically. The Windows system event viewer showed read errors on the drive during those freezes that would last 5 minutes or more. As well I'd get blue screen of death. Tried to work with Western Digital support for over a month and they were totally worthless. Last WD device for me.

Very good item, very good price. I am doing a review to win a $400 gift card I will not win.

Western Digital has released another successful M.2 NVMe SSD, this time designed in the 2230 form factor. It boasts gen4 speeds and the benchmarks do seem to back that data up. Using this with the ASUS Ally gives it the much needed drive space for essentially all your gaming needs. The performance of this versus the original SSD in the Ally are very similar, benchmarks show read in 5.1k MB/s and write in 4.8k MB/s. As for temperatures, the card does get pretty hot as expected in such a small enclosure. During stress testing, expect to see spikes of up to to 80 degrees Celsius, however during normal operation it seems to stay around 60 degrees with is acceptable. With how easy it is to upgrade storage on the Ally, this is an excellent option without any compromises. Although this is a smaller form factor, you can of course use this in any supported gen4 M.2 slots, giving you more options if say a sale comes along. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking, and in my past experience Western Digital has been reliable as far as SSD's go.

Replaced SSD in Surface. Easy to install, works flawlessly.

Exactly what I needed for my rog ally to expand it's memory. Good customer service.

Just used some free software to move my data into this one.

Just like always. Best buy had this for an excellent deal.

Works as should, had to argue with a employee about if the ssd would fit in the Rog Ally (which it does obviously) could be a little cheaper, and little faster.

Best upgrade for asus rog ally. Don't limit yourself, get the upgrade and do it.

High quality from a reputable brand. This works exactly as I wanted it to

Purchased to increase capacity of my Surface Pro 9. Workjed great.

Fast storage for your gaming handheld. Trusted company. Easy to install.

Amazing card! Got this when it was discounted for the steam deck!

Works great fit perfect had no issues installing the new one

Best product to upgrade for asus ally, and easy to install.

Works great and quality built. Perfect upgrade for rog ally

work great with windows. Could not get it to work on the xBox Series S as internal or with expansion card

It’s really incredible just how far storage has come in just the last decade, not to mention two decades. We have seen storage capacities go up, while size of drives have gone down, all while increasing the read/write speeds to huge amounts. The WD Blank SN770M is probably the best example of this phenomenon I have ever seen. Designed for mobile gaming in the age of portable PCs, this M.2 2230 NVMe SSD is small, like REALLY small. At just around 1.1”x0.85”, it is about the size of an SD Card and comes with a full 2TB of storage with quoted read speeds of 5150 MB/s and write speeds of 4850 MB/s; which is very fast for gaming use cases. I don’t tend to stress test SSDs too much in everyday use, but I re-download almost my entire game collection on my ASUS ROG Ally (~1.5TB worth of games) and the speeds were incredibly fast. I was up and running in no time, and when actually jumping into games the speed uptick was very noticeable. Loading screens were often blink and you're ready to go, and actual running performance was great. I had no thermal issues, or hitching in any of the games I tested. World streaming in some of the open world games I enjoy, like Spider-Man, were seamless, with no stuttering or noticeable impacts on performance. With support for Microsofts DirectStorage, even some of the more memory intensive games, like Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, should perform quite well. Honestly, in my time using my ROG Ally with the SSD, I have had nothing but incredible performance from the drive. It fits all of my favorite games, loads, and runs them without issue, making the handheld feel even snappier and more performant than usual. My only real complaint, and it has nothing to do with the drive itself, is that the set-up process with the ROG Ally was unnecessarily difficult. The actual install of the drive was super simple, but needing to reload Windows was incredibly irritating, as it would often get hung up during the install process. Your mileage may vary, but it required some guides and searching to figure out that I needed to adjust the date/time in the ROG Ally BIOS to correct for an infinite checking issue I was getting. Again, this is not specific to this drive, and is an issue with the ROG Ally itself, but is something to just be aware of if you are using this drive with the ROG Ally; which is something I recommend, as it is a significant improvement in storage from the base storage! So, overall I highly recommend this drive if you are looking for faster and bigger storage in a class-leading form factor. Do your research before upgrading your handhelds internal storage, especially if like me you were upgrading your ROG Ally, but with some guides and how-tos, you should be up and running in no time.