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WD Black 500GB High-Performance NVMe PCIe Internal SSD - M.2 2280, 8 Gb/s - WDS500G2X0C

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  • Sequential read speeds up to 3,400MB/s (for 1000GB and 500GB models), up to 60% faster than the previous generation of WD Black SSD**
  • Built on the Western Digital NVMe SSD storage architecture for low latency, power efficiency, and compatibility
  • Low power efficiency down to 2.5mW, half the mW of the previous WD Black SSD
  • WD F.I.T. Lab certified to work with a wide range of high-performance PC configurations
  • NVMe drive not compatible with SATA interface
  • 5-year manufacturer's limited warranty
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Easy to install
4.7
4.7
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For gaming
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4.4
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  • Solid State Drive

  • From the manufacturer

    WD Black NVMe SSD main

    Annihilate Limits

    The SSD for those who are relentless. Fearless. Ruthless. Featuring sequential read speeds up to 3400MB/s (500GB and 1TB models), the WD Black NVMe SSD is where blazing speed, top-tier performance, and Western Digital 3D NAND technology combine. With up to 600TBW (1TB model) and 1.75M hours MTTF, it’s the virtually invincible SSD for gamers who have no time for mercy.

    Fast read/write speeds

    The Fast Way Forward

    No compromises. Nothing holding you back. The WD Black NVMe SSD features sequential read and write speeds up to 3,400/2,800 MB/s for gaming, video editing, virtual reality, and beyond.

    performance purposed

    Demand More. Consume Less.

    Go ahead—do it all. WD Black is driven to keep up with even the most demanding workloads. Innovative power management and thermal throttling consistently help prevent overheating to deliver smooth, fast performance.

    Built For Greatness

    Eliminate boundaries with Western Digital's new vertically integrated SSD platform. This innovative storage architecture features Western Digital 3D NAND, and is optimized resulting in low latency, power efficiency, and compatibility with the growing range of applications benefitting from NVMe.

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    Award Winning WD Black NVMe SSD

    “With no less than six new lab records delivered by Western Digital's latest and greatest, it is safe to say that WD is now the leading performance broker when it comes to consumer TLC flash-based storage.”

    Jon Coulter, TweakTown

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    Product Description

    Introducing the WD Black NVMe SSD: the driving force behind everything you do. Featuring sequential read/write speeds up to 3,400/2,800 MB/s, and the innovative Western Digital Spectrum storage architecture, it’s where blazing speed, top-tier performance, and Western Digital 3D NAND technology combine. With up to 600TBW (for 1000GB capacity) and 1.75M hours MTTF, the WD Black NVMe SSD is the virtually invincible SSD you can rely on.

    Customer reviews

    4.8 out of 5 stars
    4.8 out of 5
    1,818 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the speed, performance, quality, value, and ease of installation of the computer drive. For example, they mention that it's fast, works great in Windows 10, and is well rated. That said, some are happy with stability. That being said, opinions are mixed on temperature.

    AI-generated from the text of customer reviews

    198 customers mention184 positive14 negative

    Customers are happy with the speed of the computer drive. They say it's really fast, the boot up time is very fast, and software loads quickly. They also mention that file copy is faster, and the IO speeds are decent. Customers say that the installation of the drive has resulted in a speed increase. They mention that the read and write speeds are excellent, and that they can trigger applications instantly after the OS boots up.

    "...Everything works right out of the box, real quality drive. The drive is amazingly fast, it installed Windows in less than 15 minutes...." Read more

    "This drive is awesome and fastI have it in a ryzen machine:Ryzen 7 1700 (3.6ghz xfr)Asus prime x370 pro..." Read more

    "...It was even better than advertised on read speed which is what is used most...." Read more

    "...Trades blows with the 960 Pro and EVO. One of the fastest consumer SSDs you can buy today...." Read more

    112 customers mention96 positive16 negative

    Customers like the performance of the computer drive. They say it works great in Windows 10, and everything works right out of the box. Some customers also mention that the performance feels really well and has huge improvements in test results.

    "...Everything works right out of the box, real quality drive. The drive is amazingly fast, it installed Windows in less than 15 minutes...." Read more

    "...Solid hardware, solid software, solid performance. Win, win, win!" Read more

    "...Performance is fantastic and the benchmarks I get match what reviewers got...." Read more

    "...I have also attached the speed test results. Huge improvements in test results." Read more

    90 customers mention87 positive3 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the quality of the computer drive. They mention it's a well-rated SSD at a reasonable price, works right out of the box, and is a real quality drive. Some say that the drive has no flaws and is very reliable.

    "...Everything works right out of the box, real quality drive. The drive is amazingly fast, it installed Windows in less than 15 minutes...." Read more

    "This drive is awesome and fastI have it in a ryzen machine:Ryzen 7 1700 (3.6ghz xfr)Asus prime x370 pro..." Read more

    "...If you can afford it, these are the best drives around and way cheaper than the nearest competitor...." Read more

    "Great product, very cheap for it's very high quality. However, I can't give 5 stars simply because it doesn't include the screw to install it...." Read more

    85 customers mention75 positive10 negative

    Customers like the value of the computer drive. They say that it is the best value for money, with an excellent price/performance ratio. Some say that the drive is well worth the upgrade, and is very cheap for its very high quality.

    "...can afford it, these are the best drives around and way cheaper than the nearest competitor...." Read more

    "...IO speeds (much better than SATA SSDs, not as good as a 970 Pro), good price (cheaper than the 970 line), and (so far) no technical issues re:..." Read more

    "...I couldn't have been happier buying this drive and price/performance ratio is excellent." Read more

    "Great product, very cheap for it's very high quality. However, I can't give 5 stars simply because it doesn't include the screw to install it...." Read more

    53 customers mention49 positive4 negative

    Customers find the installation process of the computer drive to be easy. They mention that it installs Windows in less than 15 minutes, it takes next to no time at all to boot up an OS, and it's easy to use. Customers also say that the drive is amazingly fast and can be attached smartly without having to think about wiring and placement. They say that cloning is effortless and that the software makes it easy to switch the drive.

    "...The drive is amazingly fast, it installed Windows in less than 15 minutes. The diskspeed test is twice as fast as the old Toshiba drive...." Read more

    "...The acronis software (downloaded from WD website) makes cloning effortless and even switched the drive letters so all application paths are correct...." Read more

    "...Installation was quick, painless, simple...." Read more

    "...Very easy to install, and surprisingly Windows 10 was super easy to install from a USB flash drive for this new build...." Read more

    15 customers mention12 positive3 negative

    Customers like the stability of the computer drive. They mention it has a high performance, is a solid drive, and is reliable.

    "...Solid hardware, solid software, solid performance. Win, win, win!" Read more

    "...Fast, light and durability. Loved it and will buy it again if I choose to expand" Read more

    "It has a high performance and stablitity I thinks. And the fastest delivery is good too." Read more

    "...GRUB parameter (nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500) but it soon would lock up...." Read more

    13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the capacity of the computer drive. They mention that it has more space for caching memory, and is enough for gaming and installing windows to boot computer. Some say that the performance of this storage is amazing, and very fast.

    "...500GB might have been an overkill in my case but, free available space is always welcome and gives you peace of mind...." Read more

    "...far it is working great, the computer feels faster as it has more space for caching memory and it's way more practical to use now that it has 4x the..." Read more

    "...So fast. So easy to install. Capacity was the only real question. (Not really figuring PCIe 4 is that significant quite yet.)..." Read more

    "Used this in a system build as the primary OS/boot drive. 500GB is a decent size though I think next build I will go with 1TB...." Read more

    17 customers mention10 positive7 negative

    Customers are mixed about the temperature of the hard drive. Some mention it runs cool and uses less power than their previous drive, while others say that it gets hot and then slows down quite a bit. The temperature would reach 65 degrees Celsius when the fever was at the idle. The temp limits are not accurate and it cools down slowly.

    "...The WD Black 500GB uses a lot less power and stays about 5c cooler despite being put in a worse place in the case. My case has two M.2...." Read more

    "...I haven't been nice to it the temp limits are not accurate as it triggers at 60C which is cold for an m.2 NVME ssd...." Read more

    "...No flaws in the drive. It runs cool.One downside, the drive's thinness allows some flex in the PCB while installing into the M.2...." Read more

    "...Got this one instead. Good old WD reliability. Drive is fast. It runs cool and uses less power than my previous drive...." Read more

    Great Endurance
    5 Stars
    Great Endurance
    Used in my Unraid server as a cache drive. low capacity for 2023, past life was as my main boot ssd. I haven't been nice to it the temp limits are not accurate as it triggers at 60C which is cold for an m.2 NVME ssd. Refuse to replace it until it dies as it's only caching and typically they will be read-only when they die. The way Unraid handles failures is to act as if there is no cache drive if it fails. I have a 1tb blue as well and have had 0 problems with it as well. since it's still kicking I may get over that 600TBW WD said UP TO. 5/5* would buy again but in 1 or 2 tb
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    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019
    Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great price, fast and reputable WD NVMe Drive, works right out of the box
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2019
    I got an HP Envy 13-AD010NR with Toshiba NVMe 256GB, I wanted to dual boot Windows 10 and MacOS Mojave, I needed a bigger drive, since NVMe only comes in WD Black. I was going to get the Crucial for less money but the performance seems to be inferior also, ordered the WD Black and I'm happy that I did. I didn't want to clone the original hard drive since Windows 10 is readily available on MS website and it's quite simple to create a USB flash installer. All the drivers are readily available on HP website also and I sure don't need all these trial bloat ware from HP. The amazing thing is I didn't have to prep the new NVMe Black at all, just put it in and installed new Windows 10, the only thing is that I had to create a bigger EFI partition for Windows to install since default was only 100MB, not enough for my Clover boot loader with drivers for MacOS Mojave. Everything works right out of the box, real quality drive. The drive is amazingly fast, it installed Windows in less than 15 minutes. The diskspeed test is twice as fast as the old Toshiba drive. Installed the Windows and MacOS in no time, the battery actually lasts 6hr playing videos. Now, since it's new, I've only had it for a few weeks, can't really tell about the reliability of the drive, but I do trust WD drives all these years, yes, this is the new type of drive so bugs and reliability will be different from normal drives.
    I do like the drive... glad Amazon couldn't cancel the order when I had second thought after ordering this drive.
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    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2018
    Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase
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    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2018
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    Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2018
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    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2019
    Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase

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    Rafael.black
    5.0 out of 5 stars MUY RAPIDO UTILIZAR DISIPADOR PORQUE SE CALIENTA
    Reviewed in Spain on July 6, 2023
    Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase
    Wilfred
    1.0 out of 5 stars SSD 500GB Western Digital WD Black M.2 PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe não funciona
    Reviewed in Brazil on June 10, 2019
    Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase
    José
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vale la pena invertir en el WD Black 2018
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2018
    Capacity: 250GBVerified Purchase
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    José
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vale la pena invertir en el WD Black 2018
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2018
    Lo compare con el WD Black 2017 (el circuito es azul) y el 2018 (circuito negro) es mejor, incluso ha llegado a estar más barato que la versión vieja, tiene más tiempo de vida y es más eficiente, les dejo una captura de las velocidades obtenidas, compre el de 250GB por lo que la velocidad de escritura es menor (1600MB/s) es suficiente para el sistema operativo y algunos programas, creia que era poco pero realmente es bueno para ingresar al mundo de los SSD.

    Definitivamente cumple con lo que dicen en la publicidad, un SSD m.2 SATA anda en 500MB/s tanto en escritura como en lectura, este (SSD m.2 NVME de 250GB) llega a 3000 MB/s en lectura y 1600 MB/s de escritura.

    Lo instale en una OMEN 15 2018, que no trae tornillo, ni el SSD traia tornillo, tómenlo en cuenta. Era muy lenta con el HDD de fabrica, tardaba minutos en encender y se trababa con tareas básicas, ahora con el SSD prende en segundos y abre cualquier programa al instante, vale la pena invertir en esto.
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    Darcey
    5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!!!
    Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2018
    Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase
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    Ricardo Rosales
    5.0 out of 5 stars Velocidad increíble!
    Reviewed in Mexico on August 6, 2018
    Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase
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    Ricardo Rosales
    5.0 out of 5 stars Velocidad increíble!
    Reviewed in Mexico on August 6, 2018
    Si estas armando una pc nueva o actualizando tu pc actual y tiene entrada m.2, esta es la mejor opción de lejos!
    La instalación es super sencilla, te olvidas de clabear por SATA, unicamente insertas y pones un tornillo de sujección y listo. En cuanto al desempeño, se come a prácticamente cualquier unidad de almacenamiento del mercado y juega al tu por tu con las samsung PRO 970, costando significativamente menos... La velocidad es increible, arranca el pc en menos de 10 segundos y programas pesados como AutoCAD o Matlab simulink muy rápido (ver la imagen para el benchmark que hice de la unidad).

    Definitivamente recomendaría invertir en una unidad como esta antes que un procesador más potente, más RAM o una mejor GPU, la experiencia día a día mejora de manera brutal!!!
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