Leo has taken hold of the new wd Blue SN550 1TB ssd after our storage specialist Simon Crisp put its through its paces over at KitGuru. Is this new drive one you should be shortlisting for a new ...

NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner WD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives ...

Today, SanDisk announced that mainstream WD Blue and WD Black SSDs would be discontinued and replaced by SanDisk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. The explosion in content creation by vloggers has fueled a ...

Sandisk has introduced the SANDISK Optimus SSD brand at CES 2026, consolidating its WD_BLACK and WD Blue NVMe SSDs under a ...

With more content creators moving to 4K video creation, hard drive speed definitely helps accelerate the process. While SSDs have been popular for years now, NVMe SSDs are slowly gaining popularity.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data infrastructure leader, is accelerating the NVMe transition of value-PC storage by adding an NVMe™ model to its ...

Even WD’s bargain NVMe SSDs provide excellent bang for the buck. Unlike some cheap competitors, the Blue SN500 maintains a reasonable 750MBps write speed when it runs out of cache. That alone makes it ...

A name you know from a brand you trust. The new WD Blue SN500 NVMe is a low-cost mainstream SSD with a strong warrnty and SATA killing performance. We already declared the end of SATA SSDs for ...

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A week or two ago Western Digital announced their new WD Blue SN500 series NVMe SSDs. A value NVMe proposition that is capable of rattling some cages. We had the opportunity to test the 250GB model ...

This is it folks, the end of SATA is upon us and the WD Blue SN500 is harbinger to the whole affair. Stuffed onto its 80 x 22mm frame is a single 500GB chip of WD's TLC 3D NAND alongside the company's ...