Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN570 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 3,500 MB/s - WDS100T3B0C

I have avoided WD drives for years, due to their unreliability, and high failure rate in my work (I.T.) experience, but I needed this type of drive, and after reading through all of the reviews, I bought this as a backup drive for my laptop.

Drive is ok, it works. But the most annoying thing you need special WD software (windows only) to update the drive firmware. Linux already has standard open source nvme cli tool which is capable of updating the firmware, but WD does not make those FW files available for download. I contacted support and they were empathetic but useless.

blazing fast speed

This was a good purchase, works very well, no problems. Quick data access.

Easy to install.

I love the performance pretty fast boot time I am a fan of WD. And I highly recommend it

Pretty fast and presumably very limited by the external enclosure. Picture shows the speed test inside the Inateck FE2026-DG on a M1 Mac Mini.

Not much to say here. Boringly reliable. Easy to install. Far faster than an old school mechanical drive. Solid value.

It would of been easier if there was a screw supplied with the drive thats incredibly expensive to begin with. A pack of 15 screws for this drive and motherboard compatible is for $4, included with a screw driver also to mount the drives. I dont see how its too much of a hassle to supply one with the drive?? Now I need to wait another week to get what I originally wanted. My recommendation..check if you have an extra screw ready to go on your motherboard and space, etc.. and buy elsewhere. This is garbage.

Tried to install as a replacement for WD Blue SN530 which had failed. BIOS could recognize the drive correctly but Windows installer could not and asked for a driver to be installed. There is not a driver to be found on the Western Digital site. All the searches assume you have a working Windows installation which I do not.