Customer Ratings & Reviews

I caught this SSD on sale during the BestBuy Black Friday deals that were run before Black Friday. This was WELL worth the price. I was replacing a stock Samsung brand 500GB SSD drive inside an Alienware 17 R5 gaming laptop. Unfortunately, I finally filled the drive up, and it was time to upgrade. The installation was easy, but I would suggest performing a fresh Windows install instead of using the Acronis Cloning software. I'm a techy and have used Acronis since my college years. The older versions were great back in the Windows XP days, but these newer ones have always been a hit or miss for me. I encountered the problem of making the new SSD unseeable using the cloning software. The clone failed and after that it seemed to be chalked and couldn't be seen by my device. For some reason, it just bugged out, and I had to go a circumvented route and format with GParted. Note, although I was also running Windows 11 for this install on the OEM SSD, my device isn't technically "rated" for Windows 11. I'm a Windows Insider Previewer so I tend to preview versions before they're released for consumer consumption. And though my device didn't meet Windows 11's cutoff according to Dell, 11 runs on it fine. I will eventually upgrade to a new machine but for now I'm trying to keep this device running till that time. I went the route of installing Windows 10 and then upgrading to the Win 11 Developer version using my serial key. So far this thing has been screaming and I notice a difference in load times as well as heat production. I hear my fans having to spin up far less for cooling than with the previous SSD.

If you are coming from a Gen3 NVME, this is ABSOLUTELY worth the upgrade. I wanted to start with that because it's what held me up for so long -- Gen3 is FAST, and I just spent the money a year or two back... Gen4 can't be THAT much faster. Except it really, actually, is. Nice boost overall in snappiness with Windows 11, didn't have much lag before but now there is definitely none. Load times for games is noticeably faster, maybe 20-30% perceptually. The other thing that I worried about was copying my existing drive over seamlessly. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard (I have a paid version) and was able to copy my Windows 11 drive to the new drive using a NVME USB-C adapter. Total time was about an hour to copy 500Gb. Turned off computer, swapped drives, turned it back on, boom. As if nothing had changed except everything is faster. This was one of the upgrades I wish I had made a year sooner

The hard drive was easy to install and now my pc boots up in under a minute. I’ve never had this kind of speed before. Would recommend!

Everything you’d expect from a modern nvme. Easy installation, fast speeds, great price

Simply put, I love these drives. I have four of the Western Digital Black SN850X drives in two different laptops and have yet to have a single issue with any of them. They are some of the fastest drives you can in the PCIe Gen 4 interface and so far, have been ultra reliable. Updating the firmware is extremely easy using the Dashboard app. I purchased Samsung 990 Pro only to find out it had a firmware issue causing the health of the drive to fail rapidly. I purchased my fourth WD Black SN850X to replace it. I'm only going for the WD Black drives from now on. You will not be disappointed if you purchase this.

My last ssd failed me so i bought this one its pretty good for the price honestly super easy to install and it loads my games etc. pretty fast so i have no complaints as it hasnt failed me yet so lets hope that doesnt happen.

It was easy to put into my pc and started working instantly. No issues at all

Excellent speeds and plenty of storage. Super easy to install!

Great product. Its fast and reliable. Havent had any issues with it. Very good price as well compared to other ssd's.

Excellent performance and value for 3rd gen m.2. I installed this in my Razer Blade as an upgrade to the stock 1TB drive. Speed seems comparable, so much more storage!!

Fast data transfer, with minimal heat transfer, easy to install.

Fastest SSD I have ever used, exceptional performance and build quality.

Fast, cool, and 2 TB. This NVE is top notch. You will pay a lot more to get better than this.

Slight context before I go any further in this review, I used to own a Samsung SSD back with my first gaming PC. With this one, I decided to go for the WD series of SSDs, and I have had a great time with them! They do great with performance, plenty of settings to customize in their app, along with cool additions like Microsoft Direct Storage support and Game Mode. Its a great SSD, and I would recommend it to anyone who is skeptical coming from Samsung.

Won't know what's wrong with it until it breaks... Seems like a good SSD. I've had it installed as a boot drive for a few months now and it is working ok. I chose it for the price at the time and adequate performance. If I were to purchase an ssd today for the same purpose, I would probably go for 4TB instead of 2. Also, you can obtain much faster performance today with a PCIE 5.0 mainboard and compatible ssd which will blow this away.

Purchased this for the PS5 on sale. To add to the PS5 I bouggt a separate heat sink from a different vendor to keep the cost below the oem one with heat sink. The drive works great so far and read write speeds meet my requirements to play and store more games. One side note inwasnt aware of was, the PS5 adds this to the current storage it is nit a replacement. I was originally looking for the 4TB but learned it adds to and not replaces. With a 2TB ssd you get just about 3TB of storage.

I bought 2 of these for a RAID 0 configuration in a cheap/fast Chines mini PC. The PC is very fast, great specs for the price. These NVME give it superb performance and read/write speeds and 4TB of storage that looks like one big drive (due to RAID 0). Pairing two like this in RAID 0 nearly doubles the already blazing fast read and write speeds of one of the drives. I have a 1TB one in my gaming rig and it makes playing games a joy, due to short loading times.

Good drive, reliable, fast, what else do you need?

This model, SN850X, has built in dram compared to the SN770 which does not. This means that it handles I/O thrashing better and reduces the write wears from your page file and windows journaling and logging. It also uses less memory and cpu time compared to drives with no dram which must allocate additional system memory and cpu cycles in their operations. It will also perform noticeably better when close to being full compared to drives with no onboard dram. I have two of the 2TB SN850x's in my 2021 ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QR. Load times are very good and always CPU bound and the power draw for two of the SN850X 2TB drives is lower than the one 1TB stock drive that came with my laptop When on sale the value is Five stars, when it is not I'd give it four stars. I would definitely recommend this drive as an upgrade for anyone with a drive that doesn't have DRAM or needs a boot drive with more storage.

Great storage, good price, fast and very happy. This is my main storage on my current PC, will buy another to expand storage later down the line.