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WD_BLUE SN550 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 NVMe up to 2400 MB/s read speed

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We value your content. That’s why the WD Blue reliability features help protect your content so you can stress less about losing your brilliant work.

Thousands of hours of hardware, firmware and validation testing combine to advance the award-winning WD Blue heritage of quality and reliability. SSD is designed with no moving parts to help protect against data loss if it is accidentally bumped or dropped. And with 1.75M hours MTTF (mean time to failure) 2, up to 600 TBW (terabytes written) 3, and several error correction technologies, WD Blue SATA SSDs can help guard data for years to come. with a multi-gear ECC schemeHuh? That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. I think that warrants an explanation. The Western Digital Dashboard helps users maintain peak performance of the Western Digital SSD in Windows operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. The Western Digital Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and firmware updates. True to its name, WD’s Blue SN550 comes with a blue PCB, in a single-sided M.2 2280 form factor, so it can fit in even the thinnest of devices. WD’s product team are fairly tight-lipped on disclosing hardware specifics enabling the Blue SN550 to perform how it does, but we managed to narrow things down a bit on our own.A Western Digital Blue SATA SSD drive uses technology not only for higher capacities (up to 4TB in the 2.5" 7mm form factor 1) than the previous generation WD Blue SSDs, but also to help reduce cell-to-cell interference for enhanced reliability. In the following list you can select (and also search for) devices that should be added to the comparison. You can select more than one device.restrict list: WD designed the controller and firmware that powers the SSD. The Blue SN550’s NVMe 1.4-compliant controller interfaces with the host over a PCIe 3.0 x4 link, a step up from the x2 link the previous SN500 had, which helps performance a bit. As used for storage capacity, 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes and 1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment. techgeek said:Looks like they need a little quality control over at WD. Look at all the flux left on the bottom right-hand corner (from the perspective of the picture) around all the SMD caps and diode near what I believe is the controller. Amazing that made it out of the factory like that.===========================================

bit_user said:Huh? That's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. I think that warrants an explanation. Western Digital-designed controller and firmware paired with our latest 3D NAND for optimized, consistent performance.NVMe goes mainstream with a powerful, cost-effective storage solution that adds to the reliability of an SSD. Most SSDs utilize DRAM or leverage NVMe’s Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature to help accelerate Flash Translation Layer (FTL) tasks to ensure responsive performance. While the WD Blue SN500 went without DRAM or HMB and instead relied solely on a small portion of SRAM for the task, WD’s Blue SN550 adopts the feature. Windows reports a default allocation amount of 64MB of the host system’s DRAM. bit_user said:I hadn't noticed. I feel like it'd give a more intuitive sense of what happens to transfer speeds over time, if it were linear in both X & Y. Just my opinion.

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