SanDisk WD Blue SN550 250GB Solid State Drive Review

Tips for choosing: 1) Discs come with and without a buffer - this one is without a buffer. Example: 970 eva with a 512MB buffer, which is of no use at all. 2) Disks without a buffer practically do not heat up, this one is almost always cold, if you compare 970 eva it is a boiler. 3) Since the drive with the NVMe protocol works via the PCI-E 3.0 x4 bus and the processor accesses it directly using RAM, the presence of a buffer is basically eliminated, especially at such a price as it is now and…

In comparison with the Samsung 860 evo, I did not feel the difference for the better, although this memory is better in terms of numbers

I bought it in the summer for 3500r (I know at this point you will start to cry)))) I installed Windu on it and was stunned by the speed. It's not even worth comparing with HDD drives. For half a year, SSD proved to be only on the good side. And it doesn't get hot at all.

Through the crystal, the disk shows its declared speed (by reading, writing is not important for me) I took it to play Escape from Tarkov, reduced the loading time (compared to the usual ssd), as well as reduced the friezes and micro lags to almost their complete absence! I didn’t bother with operating temperatures, there is almost no load for my needs, and the unit is well ventilated, in general it is 34-40 degrees + - Excellent purchase for your money, satisfied with the purchase, I recommend

Not everything is simple with WD ssd drives: all 2280 ssds, with the exception of the black series, are produced by the Sandisk factory, acquired not so long ago by WD. Build quality, ease of installation - no complaints. Bought for NAS Synology 1621+. The cache works flawlessly. Previously, we encountered layers when working with the ssd cache, but the problem was fixed at all levels and now there are no complaints. The difference in the speed of data operations in various scenarios is…