WD - Blue SN570 1TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4

It runs fast through my OWC envoy into my max mini M1, more speed than I need or than the max mini is capable of. Worked like a charm!

Great. Even good for gaming ? Also great deal for the price.

Great nvme m.2 for its price don't spend more on brand name when this one just as good for less

Great SSD super fast load times and boot times and super easy to install.

very good m.2. I installed it in under 5 minutes and it runs very well

decent cost efficient SSD I used it to fix my boyfriend's laptop after hp screwed him over on the repair and this little guy did a perfect job as a replacement drive.

Good cheap drive. Dependable. WD is a good brand. Recommended.

INSTALL: Before you buy this drive you need to ensure that your motherboard supports it (M.2 NVME 2280 Gen 3). Also, make sure you have the screws you need to attach them to your motherboard (as they aren’t included). But should have come with your motherboard (either on it or in the box it came in) so check before buying. Last, for Ryzen motherboards it seems there are some hoops you may need to jump through. When I installed it in my system my BIOS could see it, but my Windows 11 couldn’t. So, I had to do a google search for “PSA NVME drives disappearing in windows? Here’s the solution reddit” which told me to go into the “device manager” -> Storage controllers -> RAID -> And roll back the driver which switched it from RAID to NVME and then I was good. REAL WORLD TESTING: I decided to use this drive for my games (even though testing shows that it doesn’t really make a difference compared to a standard SSD drive, but that may change in the future with the current consoles which is a debate for another time). So, I transferred 420 GB of game launchers and games from a Sata SSD to the M.2 drive and it took 19 minutes. Which is insane. It maxed out at 490 MB/s (due to the sata drive bottleneck). If it was another M.2 drive it would have been a lot faster. Temperature varied between 50 - 54 Celsius. I did have a heat sink on it (that came on my motherboard). Which will improve temps. BENCHMARK TESTING: Benchmarks are good to look how a drive will compare to another drive but not always accurate for real world usage as most things aren’t a stable sustained write. But more of a look at the maximum possible performance. I tested mine on an Aorus Elite X570 Motherboard in a Gen 4 slot. Again, I had a heat sink on it and temps maxed at 55C. See the attached photo for the results I got. For a Gen 3 it did a great job. BENEFITS: Most people think that switching to an NVME drive is going to be a huge upgrade. If you already have a SATA SSD you won’t see that big of a difference in everyday use but will for specific things. But with them being about the same price it is worth it to buy the faster drive. I didn’t see a noticeable improvement in boot time, opening most programs, or improvement in frames or load times in games. Maybe 1 second or 1 – 2 frames at most which is within margin of error. I did notice added stability in games (less skips, stuttering, dropped frames) but that could be placebo. But think that is due to NVME being able to access multiple things at once where SATA can only do one. Additionally, I noticed a significant difference when transferring large files, and a mild increase in downloads (when going through the install phase mostly with unpacking files). For video editing it was relatively the same, at most maybe less dropped frames, better stability, and mildly improved load times/scrubbing with certain big files. But exporting was the same. So, in general use I noticed almost no difference between my SATA SSD but did notice mild/moderate difference with specific tasks. Especially when dealing with large file sizes or having to pull info from multiple sectors at once. CONCLUSION: This is an excellent drive for the price and performs better than I expected. Compared to a lot of other Gen 3 drives I think this would give them a serious run for their money. But random read/writes struggle a bit compared to some of the more expensive drives. For most people this will be more than enough, and they won’t see a benefit with a more expensive drive. However, Hardcore Power Users will still want to go with a Gen 4. I wouldn’t recommend upgrading from a SATA SSD to this, as I don’t think you’ll notice a big enough difference to justify the cost, but do recommend buying this if you need more storage or if you are coming from a HDD.