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Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - PCIe Gen 4.0, M.2 2280,...

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Price

Customers are very pleased with the affordability and value of the product's price. They consider it a great deal for the storage capacity offered. Some customers have mentioned that if not for operating system installation, it would be an excellent purchase.

Speed

Customers are overwhelmingly positive about the speed of the product, reporting it to be faster than their previous drives and significantly improving system performance. Some customers have noted slight variations in speed depending on their specific setup but overall express satisfaction with the purchase.

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Thunderbolt Compatibility

Customers have mixed opinions regarding Thunderbolt compatibility of the Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD. While some customers were able to use it successfully in Thunderbolt enclosures, others experienced issues with compatibility and had to update firmware or partition the drive to make it work. Overall, the product performs well when used internally with compatible systems.

Reliability

Customers have had mixed experiences with the reliability of the product. While many report that it has been reliable and functioning well for months or even years, a significant number have encountered issues such as drive failure and data loss within a few months of use.

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Quality

Storage capacity works as intended with good build quality.

With solid read speeds of up to 2,400 mb/s and write speeds of up to 1,950 mb/s, it delivers quick load times and efficient per... Read More

2) power on the computer and go to disk management (click the microsoft logo in the lower left of the screen and type “disk management”.

After it’s complete, close disk management window and you’re new ssd should be ready to use.

Price

It's a great purchase based on price.

Good value overall given the superb performance.

Shipping

Super fast, with less temperature/power issues (than the top of the line, newer ssd cards).

I'm trying to help both entities in trying to mitigate returns due to the product not being shipped as pictured.

Packaging/appearance

That being said, the product didn't come as pictured.

Competitiveness

For comparison, here are the crystaldiskmark results for the two drives installed in the computer: read writecrucial mx500 sata ssd: 285.

5although not exactly a fair comparison because the two drives use different technologies, upgrading to an nvme ssd in my situa... Read More

Overview

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blue, western, due and great.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 4,294 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 5 2025.