WD Blue 550, the successor of SN500 is the company’s newest mainstream NVMe SSD which gives the best performance up to 2,400MB/s and 1,950MB/s for sequential reads and writes, and 170,000 IOPS and 135,000 IOPS for random reads and writes, respectively, for the 1TB model. Benefit for all those users who works at resource-heavy environments, like 4K/8K video, Big data file including large document, or for maximum storage-intensive applications.
The Western Digital SSD Dashboard provides a user-friendly graphical interface that makes easy-to-use tools for analyzing drives including the drive model, capacity, firmware version, SMART attributes, and firmware updates. The SN550 is available in capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB with 5-year company warranty and support. SN550 drive is a best entry-level drive all packed inside the small M.2 2280 form factor which includes firmware, in-house controller, and their latest 3D NAND. It makes improvements in overall system performance than any other traditional SATA SSDs and HDDs which makes booting speed and application runtime faster than any usual drive, in least affordable cost.