Review on Western Digital WD Blue NVMe 500GB M.2 SSD WDS500G2B0C by Wiktor Sakowski ᠌

date on the chip Jan 21. My motherboard, Asus Prime A320M-K, in the SATA settings it is not visible that the M.2 slot is occupied, this is normal, the disk is visible in the NMVe settings, the disk is visible in the boot manager, under Windows all the characteristics are visible. On the test, the maximum temperature was 43 degrees NVMe device properties Model ID WDC WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0 Version 211210WD Device type NVMe v1.4.0 Raw capacity 476940 MB PCI Vendor ID 15B7h (SanDisk) PCI Subsystem Vendor ID 15B7h (SanDisk) IEEE OUI Identifier 44-1B-00 (SanDisk) Controller ID 1 Version 66560 Controller Type I/O Controller Extended Device Self-test Time 57 min Recommended Arbitration Burst Size 4 Max Data Transfer Size 7 Runtime D3 Resume Latency 500000 us Runtime D3 Entry Latency 1000000 us Abort Command Limit 5 Asynchronous Event Request Limit 8 Firmware Slots 2 Firmware ate Granularity 4 KB Max Error Log Page Entries 256 Persistent Event Log Size 64 KB Power States 5 Warning Composite Temperature Threshold 80 °C Critical Composite Temperature Threshold 85 °C Max Thermal Management Temperature 85°C Max Time For Firmware Activation 5 sec Host Memory Buffer Preferred Size 204800 KB Host Memory Buffer Min Size 3292 KB Host Memory Max Descriptors Entries 8 Total NVM Capacity 476940 MB SSD physical data Producer Western Digital Blue SN550 SSD family Form factor M.2 2280 Formatted capacity 500 GB WD controller type Flash type SanDisk 96-layer 3D TLC NAND Physical dimensions 80 x 22 x 2.38 mm Max weight 6.5g Max. 2400 MB/s sequential read speed Max. sequential write speed 1750 MB/s Max. random 4-KB read 300,000 IOPS Max. random 4-KB write 240000 IOPS Interface PCI-E 3.0 x4 Data transfer rate on the interface 4000 MB/s Buffer size 0