Western Digital WD Blue SN580 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Internal Storage, 500GB
Boost productivity or design creatives effortlessly by upgrading to PCIe Gen 4.0 SSDs with up to 4,000 MB/s** read speeds
Make light work of heavy files with Western Digital’s nCache 4.0 technology enabling blistering fast copying of large files or media assets
With up to 2TB* of storage on a slim M.2 2280 form-factor, applications, data, and media such as photos, 4K videos, and music can be stored on the same drive
Keep creating uninterrupted when you’re in the zone or on the go with low-power storage to maximize your laptop’s battery life
5 Year limited warranty by Western Digital
Specification: Western Digital WD Blue SN580 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Internal Storage, 500GB
Brand
‎Western Digital
Manufacturer
‎Western Digital (UK) Ltd
Series
‎SN580
Colour
‎Blue
Form Factor
‎2.5-inch
Item Height
‎0.09 Inches
Item Width
‎0.87 Inches
Product Dimensions
‎8 x 2.21 x 0.23 cm, 4.54 g
Item model number
‎WDS500G3B0E
Hard Drive Size
‎500 GB
Hard Disk Description
‎Solid State Drive
Hard Drive Interface
‎PCIE x 4
Are Batteries Included
‎No
Included Components
‎WD SN580 SSD
Country of Origin
‎China
Item Weight
‎4.54 g
13 reviews for Western Digital WD Blue SN580 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD Internal Storage, 500GB
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SALMAN QURAISH –
I have purchased the 2 TB for the Lenovo LOQ RTX4060 edition. This SSD gives the exact speed as mentioned. The TBW is 900 which is okay but if one buys the WD Black SN770, the 2TB variant would have 1200 TBW. But this is more than enough for all gaming needs.
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The Honest Guy –
Nice ssd, best performance
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Nikhil chandwani –
I am using this for past three years. I installed it on a 4gb ram laptop. Because of its performance no hanging in my laptop. Wonderful.
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The Honest Guy –
I bought this for my Lenovo laptop and i must say this is one of the best and cheapest upgrades that can be done on a laptop or desktop. I know a lot of people will have questions about SSD’s. So i will try to explain things a bit.
There are basically 3 types of SSD – 2.5 inch SATA (SATA Interface) – M2 – MSATA – M2 – NVME
But what’s the difference ? Now you might have noticed i have written M2 type two times. That’s the catch. They look similar but perform entirely differently. MSATA sticks uses the same communication channels as the 2.5 inch SATA drive. The maximum speeds that can be attained on MSATA is around 550 MBPS.
But in NVME you can get close to 2000MBPS or even as high as 3000 MBPS. Many people are unaware of this factor and end up buying M2 MSATA or 2.5″ Sata SSDs. You should always go for a NVME based one, if your Motherboard supports it. NVME works on actual PCIE bus and not SATA lines. WD Blue series also comes in 3 variants mentioned above. The MSATA and NVME sticks looks very similar, except that MSATA has 2 cuts (M key) and NVME has only 1(b key). So before you buy just check your M2 slot how it looks. If it has only 1 cut, it must support NVME, go for the NVME variant.
Performance and disk size I bought the 500 GB variant and what i get is 3500 MBPS Read and 2400 MBPS Write for Sequential read.
How SSDs make the system fast? Many people follow the logic that upgrading RAM is the best way to upgrade your system. But No. If you replace your hard disk, it can actually act as RAM (Page file or SWAP) as well as your internal memory. A lot of new laptops with SSD come nowadays with just 4GB RAM. Still they are fast. Now, how it works ? SSD comes with a considerable amount of transfer speed, especially for small files. Hard disks are really really slow when it comes to small tiny files, average 4K read speeds of hard disks are 3 or 4 MBPS, whole for SSD its 200 to 300 MBPS.Which is like a 100 times faster. Most of the system operations read/write small files, which makes harddisks sluggish. Forget about the 1800 MBPS Sequential speed for large files. That’s yet another factor.
Which size to choose ? I would highly recommend you to go for 512 or 1 TB as it has double Write speeds of 250 GB version.
How to install ? It’s very easy. But be careful, use a rubber gloves to prevent ESD. Slide in the Stick to the slot. It will rest at a 30 degree angle to the board. Now you need to insert the screws to fix it in right position.
Before you buy .. Make sure that your board supports NVME. Check the user manual. Also check the slot and see it has only 1 cut. Not two
How much is the real world results ? I use this on my Lenovo laptop. My Windows OS which used to take 2 minute to boot now takes 10 seconds. This much boost is obtained because my Desktop is i7 and can process too much data. So if you have a good processor you also can obtain similar results.
I know my review was bit lengthy, but i hope you found it helpful!!
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Gaurav R. Vasani –
Currently using in a Mac Pro 5,1 with an NVMe –> PCIe adapter.
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Pankaj –
Decidà comprar esta memoria para expandir el almacenamiento de mi mac mini utilizando un hub con ranura para SSD NVME y me encantó porque ofrece muy buena velocidad de escritura y lectura. La recomiendo mucho!
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Dpk Srma –
From installing the windows 10 pro to opening the edge browser, everything became faster after installing this ssd. My Laptop Acer Aspire E5 575, Boot time is reduced very well and Over all processing has become fast. Thankyou Western digital and Amazon. As of now I would rate this product 4.5 because, not sure how it will perform after 1 year.
Had a dead drive recently and needed a quick replacement while the manufacturer replaced my existing one. Ended up keeping this as a main OS drive with a partitioned storage section for emergency storage. Easy set up, reliable and as others have posted here – decent speeds and so far, great reliability.
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Windows now boots in about 12 seconds. The free downloadable software from WD makes the disk copy process simple.
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Placeholder –
I have successfully replaced my HDD with this amazing WD product. Though it’s advisable that it should be used with PCI gen 4 but I have used it with my PCI gen 3 port and it perfectly works fine. It’s been about 1 month and there is no issue with this WD SN580 NVMe m.2 SSD.
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Nikhil chandwani –
Replaced my laptop’s smaller SSD (128 GB) with this (1TB) one.
Installed my 2nd dual boot OS on new SSD as well, and got quite a bit improved boot speeds. Programs launch quickly (in the 2nd OS (which I mainly use) ). (Initially 2nd OS was installed on HDD because original SSD was quite small.)
Much better suspend / resume times observed even on the OS that was installed on the older SSD and transferred on the new SSD. Much better program launch times and general responsiveness of the system.
My System originally 128 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD
After Upgrade 1TB SSD, 1 TB HDD
(replaced the 128GB-SSD with 1TB-SSD) because needed the size of HDD (and certain port configurations in laptop) )
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Max –
First, i thought it was not working, which you could see on the image but then I get to know its unlocated memory, product is good but I was looking for 500 gen3 SSD but out of stocks….
SALMAN QURAISH –
I have purchased the 2 TB for the Lenovo LOQ RTX4060 edition. This SSD gives the exact speed as mentioned. The TBW is 900 which is okay but if one buys the WD Black SN770, the 2TB variant would have 1200 TBW. But this is more than enough for all gaming needs.
The Honest Guy –
Nice ssd, best performance
Nikhil chandwani –
I am using this for past three years. I installed it on a 4gb ram laptop. Because of its performance no hanging in my laptop. Wonderful.
The Honest Guy –
I bought this for my Lenovo laptop and i must say this is one of the best and cheapest upgrades that can be done on a laptop or desktop. I know a lot of people will have questions about SSD’s. So i will try to explain things a bit.
There are basically 3 types of SSD
– 2.5 inch SATA (SATA Interface)
– M2 – MSATA
– M2 – NVME
But what’s the difference ?
Now you might have noticed i have written M2 type two times. That’s the catch. They look similar but perform entirely differently. MSATA sticks uses the same communication channels as the 2.5 inch SATA drive. The maximum speeds that can be attained on MSATA is around 550 MBPS.
But in NVME you can get close to 2000MBPS or even as high as 3000 MBPS. Many people are unaware of this factor and end up buying M2 MSATA or 2.5″ Sata SSDs. You should always go for a NVME based one, if your Motherboard supports it. NVME works on actual PCIE bus and not SATA lines. WD Blue series also comes in 3 variants mentioned above. The MSATA and NVME sticks looks very similar, except that MSATA has 2 cuts (M key) and NVME has only 1(b key). So before you buy just check your M2 slot how it looks. If it has only 1 cut, it must support NVME, go for the NVME variant.
Performance and disk size
I bought the 500 GB variant and what i get is 3500 MBPS Read and 2400 MBPS Write for Sequential read.
How SSDs make the system fast?
Many people follow the logic that upgrading RAM is the best way to upgrade your system. But No. If you replace your hard disk, it can actually act as RAM (Page file or SWAP) as well as your internal memory. A lot of new laptops with SSD come nowadays with just 4GB RAM. Still they are fast. Now, how it works ? SSD comes with a considerable amount of transfer speed, especially for small files. Hard disks are really really slow when it comes to small tiny files, average 4K read speeds of hard disks are 3 or 4 MBPS, whole for SSD its 200 to 300 MBPS.Which is like a 100 times faster. Most of the system operations read/write small files, which makes harddisks sluggish. Forget about the 1800 MBPS Sequential speed for large files. That’s yet another factor.
Which size to choose ?
I would highly recommend you to go for 512 or 1 TB as it has double Write speeds of 250 GB version.
How to install ?
It’s very easy. But be careful, use a rubber gloves to prevent ESD. Slide in the Stick to the slot. It will rest at a 30 degree angle to the board. Now you need to insert the screws to fix it in right position.
Before you buy
.. Make sure that your board supports NVME. Check the user manual. Also check the slot and see it has only 1 cut. Not two
How much is the real world results ?
I use this on my Lenovo laptop. My Windows OS which used to take 2 minute to boot now takes 10 seconds. This much boost is obtained because my Desktop is i7 and can process too much data. So if you have a good processor you also can obtain similar results.
I know my review was bit lengthy, but i hope you found it helpful!!
Gaurav R. Vasani –
Currently using in a Mac Pro 5,1 with an NVMe –> PCIe adapter.
Pankaj –
Decidà comprar esta memoria para expandir el almacenamiento de mi mac mini utilizando un hub con ranura para SSD NVME y me encantó porque ofrece muy buena velocidad de escritura y lectura. La recomiendo mucho!
Dpk Srma –
From installing the windows 10 pro to opening the edge browser, everything became faster after installing this ssd.
My Laptop Acer Aspire E5 575, Boot time is reduced very well and Over all processing has become fast.
Thankyou Western digital and Amazon.
As of now I would rate this product 4.5 because, not sure how it will perform after 1 year.
Pankaj –
Primero que nada el producto llegó muy rápido mucho antes de la fecha designada, segundo llegó en muy buenas condiciones bien sellado y la calidad del producto es muy buena ya que anda funcionando en una Lenovo ideal pad l340 que en un principio el apagado y encendido eran de mas de dos minutos y que decir de las transferencias de archivos, ahora el encendido y apagado sólo toma 5 segundos y al momento de iniciar ya puedes trabajar sin problemas, la transferencia de archivos es super rápido de una unidad a otro ya que al equipo le añadà un segundo disco duro de estado sólido de la misma marca Wester y ahora el equipo está al 100, añado las fotos de cómo quedó la instalación del disco duro nvme de 2tb y definitivamente recomiendo éste producto.
Breeze Enterprises –
Had a dead drive recently and needed a quick replacement while the manufacturer replaced my existing one. Ended up keeping this as a main OS drive with a partitioned storage section for emergency storage. Easy set up, reliable and as others have posted here – decent speeds and so far, great reliability.
Placeholder –
Windows now boots in about 12 seconds. The free downloadable software from WD makes the disk copy process simple.
Placeholder –
I have successfully replaced my HDD with this amazing WD product. Though it’s advisable that it should be used with PCI gen 4 but I have used it with my PCI gen 3 port and it perfectly works fine. It’s been about 1 month and there is no issue with this WD SN580 NVMe m.2 SSD.
Nikhil chandwani –
Replaced my laptop’s smaller SSD (128 GB) with this (1TB) one.
Installed my 2nd dual boot OS on new SSD as well, and got quite a bit improved boot speeds.
Programs launch quickly (in the 2nd OS (which I mainly use) ).
(Initially 2nd OS was installed on HDD because original SSD was quite small.)
Much better suspend / resume times observed even on the OS that was installed on the older SSD and transferred on the new SSD.
Much better program launch times and general responsiveness of the system.
My System originally
128 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD
After Upgrade
1TB SSD, 1 TB HDD
(replaced the 128GB-SSD with 1TB-SSD)
because needed the size of HDD (and certain port configurations in laptop) )
Max –
First, i thought it was not working, which you could see on the image but then I get to know its unlocated memory, product is good but I was looking for 500 gen3 SSD but out of stocks….