2TB WD Blue SN580 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - Gen4 x4 PCIe 16Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 4

Western Digital Blue SN580 NVMe SSD 1TB Review I have a 10-year-old computer running Windows 10. The system drive has been upgraded from a mechanical hard drive to a Crucial MX500 SATA SSD. This really increased the boot-up speed and functioning of the computer. For the computer I was installing the SN580 NVMe SSD into, I had to purchase a M.2 NVMe PCI-E adapter because my 10-year-old computer does not have a M.2 slot. It does have an available PCI Express x16 (Gen 2.0) slot. The adapter I bought is backward compatible to Gen2.0. The NVMe SSD can only be used as a secondary drive in the computer I was installing it in because the computer’s BIOS will not boot from PCI-E. If the computer’s BIOS could boot from PCI-E I would have cloned the SATA SSD and made the NVMe SSD the system drive. INSTALLATION 1) After connecting the NVMe to your computer (remember, typically, the card is inserted into the slot at an angle and then gently pressed down and secured with a screw). 2) Power on the computer and go to Disk Management (Click the Microsoft logo in the lower left of the screen and type “Disk Management”.) 3) A dialog box will ask you to initialize the drive. Do so. 4) Locate the new SSD in the disk drive section. In the Unallocated section, right click and format the drive. After it’s complete, close Disk Management window and you’re new SSD should be ready to use. RESULTS In my situation, I connected the WD SN580 to the computer’s PCI-E X16 slot using an adapter. I was blown away at the read/write speeds compared to the Crucial MX500 SATA SSD (being used as the System drive). The NVMe SSD, using PCI-E adapter, had tremendous speed. For comparison, here are the CrystalDiskMark results for the two drives installed in the computer: Read Write Crucial MX500 SATA SSD: 285.1. 267.6 WD Blue SN580 NVMe: 3,533.3 3,395.5 Although not exactly a fair comparison because the two drives use different technologies, upgrading to an NVMe SSD in my situation was the right choice. FINAL THOUGHTS Installation was straightforward. The Western Digital SN580 NVMe 1TB SSD performed extremely well and has a very good price point. Also, Western Digital, at the company’s website, provides Acronis cloning software free of charge and no registration is required. I recommend this product.

S.B. · 2024-10-26 · via amazon

I installed the WD Blue SN580 1TB NVMe drive in my PC, and it’s been working flawlessly. The installation was simple, and the system recognized it right away. Boot times and file transfers are noticeably faster compared to my old drive. It feels like my computer got a big performance boost. Solid product that does exactly what I needed.

Mauro · 2025-12-02 · via amazon

Purchased about 1year ago and its been working great. Read/Write times are good and haven't had any hickups. I'm not sure it it's worth 4x the price I paid last year, but c'est la vie.

What is Love? · 2026-02-16 · via amazon

Performs perfectly. Easy to install. Transfers very fast. Great value. Very compatible with my gaming PC. I absolutely love it.

Joe · 2025-11-30 · via amazon

I was updating an old PC from Gen 3 intel cpu and motherboard to a Gen 8 for my kids (gen8 cpu and motherboard were much less than $200 total). I had added decent amount of ddr4 memory, more aggressive cpu cooling, and a much better video card as well (I had upgraded my video card in my rig so had a spare available). But it still was bogged down. Finally figured out it was constantly hitting the old hdd. Pretty much 100% disk usage constantly. This M.2 was under $60 even when adding sales tax in my area. Installed this M.2 drive in the computer. Did a clean windows install on the M.2 drive and then set the bios to boot from it. Works great now, runs fast on everything they need. The 1TB is more than sufficient. Old hdd is bulk storage if need more space for things like pics. Overall the system is now overkill for running stuff my kids like such as Roblox and Minecraft. Plus with Gen 8 hardware I can run windows 11 if I want to upgrade from windows 10 when it isn't supported (upgrade is currently free). With a grand total of less than $300 in upgrades (not counting the donated parts from my rig upgrades) it works easily as well as a prebuilt gen 10 system for what my kids do. It wouldn't do that without this M.2 ssd drive, and the <$60 cost is great.

Matt · 2024-01-18 · via amazon

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128

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550MB/s

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NVMe

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128

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550MB/s

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NVMe