WD Blue SN580 2TB M.2 NVMe Internal SSD

Pros
Fantastically affordable
Super fast real world transfers
Single-sided for laptop upgrades
Cons
Once the secondary cache runs dry, the SN580 slows down to around 500MBps, which is still actually fast for TLC NAND written natively.
Slightly low endurance rating but still could write an average of 246GB per day to the drive for five years.

I put this in my MSI laptop which only has Gen3 PCIE M.2 slot but it's still much faster than any other Gen3 PCIE M.2 SSD's and the cost for this is not much higher. Worth, would buy this again as a storage drive.

EDIT: I've updated this review to include some benchmarks wi...view more Pros
Fantastically affordable
Super fast real world transfers
Single-sided for laptop upgrades
Cons
Once the secondary cache runs dry, the SN580 slows down to around 500MBps, which is still actually fast for TLC NAND written natively.
Slightly low endurance rating but still could write an average of 246GB per day to the drive for five years.

I put this in my MSI laptop which only has Gen3 PCIE M.2 slot but it's still much faster than any other Gen3 PCIE M.2 SSD's and the cost for this is not much higher. Worth, would buy this again as a storage drive.

EDIT: I've updated this review to include some benchmarks with this in my Desktop against a more expensive Acer predator GM7, as you can see very solid 4k random write performance.
Also in regards to the other review on here about it not showing up the Acronis true image drive software, this wasn't a problem for me and I have no idea why it didn't work for him.

Good SSD, I replaced a 256GB Boot drive SSD that was running out of write cycles with this one, I used the free Veeam endpoint backup to restore the boot drive to this one from a NAS, then had almost endless Blue Screen issues. I thought it was the restore process that had broken something and started disabling the usal suspect drivers (Audio, Video etc). Did a bit of digging and found Windows 11 24H2 and some SSD drive have this issue and using Western Digital Dashboard to update the firmware fixed the problem so my suggestion is do that first.... Good SSD, I replaced a 256GB Boot drive SSD that was running out of write cycles with this one, I used the free Veeam endpoint backup to restore the boot drive to this one from a NAS, then had almost endless Blue Screen issues. I thought it was the restore process that had broken something and started disabling the usal suspect drivers (Audio, Video etc). Did a bit of digging and found Windows 11 24H2 and some SSD drive have this issue and using Western Digital Dashboard to update the firmware fixed the problem so my suggestion is do that first....

Works very well, that my "Ryzen 5 5600X" can't keep up with it. Works very well, that my "Ryzen 5 5600X" can't keep up with it.

It just works, it's speedy, no complaints yet. Good value for money. Would recommend. It just works, it's speedy, no complaints yet. Good value for money. Would recommend.

Nothing like having 4 tb worth of storage at a cheap price Nothing like having 4 tb worth of storage at a cheap price

Gives me plenty of space good price, Highly recommend if your looking for a good ssd Gives me plenty of space good price, Highly recommend if your looking for a good ssd

Looking forward to upgrading my laptop with this bigger drive Looking forward to upgrading my laptop with this bigger drive

Very fast ssd... Very fast ssd...

Not much to say really, this drive works with no issues so far. Installed it, cloned my old drive and it was ready to go. Not much to say really, this drive works with no issues so far. Installed it, cloned my old drive and it was ready to go.

Working well. Computer running well. Working well. Computer running well.

This SSD was easy to install and set up, speeds are good and I've had no issues with it. This SSD was easy to install and set up, speeds are good and I've had no issues with it.

This SSD was easy to install and set up, I am very pleased with my purchase. This SSD was easy to install and set up, I am very pleased with my purchase.