WD_BLACK 1TB SN770 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 5,150 MB/s - WDS100T3X0E

A very expensive product for its value

The nvme drive was easy to install, Windows boots up unlike my old drive which thoroughly failed.

PCIe SSD speed is never my main concern, they are much faster than the system anyway. This PCIe SSD is for main Windows disk on a office PC. Selecting 1TB because only 200GB or so Windows system will be left on it, main data storage will be on hard drive.

Excellent

Yes, per specs there are faster drives but they will generate more heat, maybe need a heat sink and cost more. Most importantly you will not see any difference in using and paying for the faster/newer drives and this will be more than sufficient for 99% of the peopled out there. In my opinion this strikes the perfect balance for performance vs. cost so a great value. Get at least the 1TB is you are a gamer, 2TB if you can afford it.

Ssd works fine.

The WDSN770 is one of the most affordable 2tb NVME drives out there right now thats also very reliable and has a decent TBW. When youre buying a flash device people are mainly interested in how big is it and how much does it cost. Sometimes people look at how fast is it. Just as important as those 3 questions is how long will it last. Flash memory because of what it is and how it works has a limited number of times it can be written to before it dies. Its the job of the controller on the SSD to keep track of how many times each cell on the drive has been written to and perform whats called wear leveling, where the drive moves data around to even out where writes take place so one part of the drive doesnt go bad before others, or minimize it anyway. TBW stands for terrabytes written and every SSD has a lifespan measured in TBW. Cheap drives and smaller drives generally have a lower TBW. Ive seen other 2TB ssds with as low as 300-500 TBW but this wdc drive in the 2tb model has a TBW of 1200.

The speeds are on point after a firmware update from WD website combined with pcie gen4.

Im using this M.2 in a new DELL XPS 8950 Tower (which actually has two M.2 locations for NVMe SSDs. This is working perfecvtly for me in the 2nd (aux) location (It came from DELL with a WD BLACK 1TB in the primary M.2 location, so I went with WD for the 2nd one too, rather than the other popular manufacturer product that I have used in the past).

Extremely easy to install, only one screw required. Works great and no signs of over heating