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WD Blue

SN550 NVMe

SSD

Put NVMe Power at the Heart of Your PC

Put NVMe

™

power at the heart of your PC for lightning-fast, ultra-

responsive performance. The WD Blue

™

SN550 NVMe

™

SSD can deliver

up to 4 times the speed of SATA SSDs. Whether you’re working, creating

or processing large amounts of data, take advantage of this powerful

internal drive’s high speeds to do more, faster. Available in capacities up

to 2TB

in an affordable M.2 2280 form factor, there’s no time like now to

make the change to NVMe.

The Right Storage for Your Next PC

NVMe goes mainstream with a powerful, cost-effective storage solution that adds to the

reliability of an SSD.

Boost Your Performance

Get breakneck sequential read speeds up to 2,600 MB/s

to improve your productivity no

matter what you’re doing or creating.

Think Small

Build powerful small-form factor PCs with a slim single-sided M.2 2280 PCIe® Gen3 x4

NVMe SSD.

Do More With Less

Scalable NVMe hardware, accelerated architecture for high performance and low power

draw.

Do More, Faster

Western Digital-designed controller and ﬁrmware paired with our latest 3D NAND for

optimized, consistent performance.

Continuing the Legacy

Thousands of hours of hardware, ﬁrmware and validation testing combine to advance the

award-winning WD Blue heritage of quality and reliability.

PRODUCT BRIEF

Product Highlights

• Boost your system’s performance with next-gen

NVMe SSDs

• Up to 4 times faster than SATA SSDs

• Slimline M.2 2280 form factor

• Western Digital®-designed controller and

ﬁrmware for optimized performance

• Western Digital SSD Dashboard

constantly

monitors the health of your SSD

Summary of content (3 pages)

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PRODUCT BRIEF WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD TM TM Put NVMe Power at the Heart of Your PC Product Highlights • Boost your system’s performance with next-gen NVMe SSDs Put NVMe™ power at the heart of your PC for lightning-fast, ultraresponsive performance. The WD Blue™ SN550 NVMe™ SSD can deliver up to 4 times the speed of SATA SSDs. Whether you’re working, creating or processing large amounts of data, take advantage of this powerful internal drive’s high speeds to do more, faster.
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WD Blue™ SN550 NVMe™ SSD PRODUCT BRIEF Specifications Interface M.2 22801 Formatted Capacity PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s, up to 4 Lanes 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB 2 Performance³ 250GB 500GB Sequential Read (MB/s) up to 2,400 2,400 Sequential Write (MB/s) up to 950 1,750 Random Read 4KB IOPS up to 170K 300K Random Write 4KB IOPS up to 135K 240K Endurance (TBW)⁴ 150 300 Power Average Active Power⁵ 75 75 30mW 30mW Sleep (PS4) (low power)5 5mW 5mW Maximum Operating Power 3.5W 3.5W 1.7 1.
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WD Blue™ SN550 NVMe™ SSD PRODUCT BRIEF Specifications Interface M.2 22801 PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s, up to 4 Lanes Formatted Capacity 2 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB Performance³ 1TB 2TB Sequential Read (MB/s) up to 2,400 2,600 Sequential Write (MB/s) up to 1,950 1,800 Random Read 4KB IOPS up to 410K 360K Random Write 4KB IOPS up to 405K 384K Endurance (TBW)⁴ 600 900 75 75 Power Average Active Power⁵ Low Power (PS3) 30mW 30mW Sleep (PS4) (low power)5 5mW 5mW Maximum Operating Power 3.5W 3.