Most importantly, they’re dead easy to install. Prices are falling, and NVMe drives such as the WD Blue SN570 take up far less space, run silently and cooler, consuming less power. Making the leap is a bit of a no-brainer. Most motherboards can take multiple NVMe solid-state drives, older non-M.2 equipped PC motherboards can use NVMe PCIe expansion cards. In that case, you can upgrade your device in minutes without selling your firstborn or mortgaging a kidney. If you own a laptop, it is worth checking to see if it can be opened without trashing its warranty to perform an NVME storage upgrade. Apps leapt onto my screen, and everything ran silky smooth.
The total install time was less than 5 minutes.īenchmarking with CrystalDiskMark saw the WD Blue SN570 deliver just over 3557MB/s read speed and an equally impressive 3141MB/s write speed. So, I was good to go after pushing it into the slot and screwing it into place. The WD BLue SN570 was dead easy to install.
I got to work by borrowing an M.2 slot-equipped motherboard with an Intel CPU. To get the best out of the WD Blue SN570 NVMe, you need a PC with PCIe 3.0×4 M.2 slots. The WD Blue SN570 promises blazing read speeds of up to 3500 MB/s, which is hugely faster than old-school mechanical hard drives. Black drives are for super-fast transfer speeds, red drives for NAS devices, and purple drives for camera surveillance systems. Green drives are for low-energy use where data transfer speeds aren’t super critical, but where energy consumption is. Their blue range is for general purpose use. The reason for this is that colour coding can help people buy the right storage for their needs. This saw them using an easy-to-understand colour-coded naming scheme for their storage hardware. So why is WD’s SN570 blue? Is it a sad NVMe drive? The answer is WD is keeping things simple. None of this is lost on the folks at Western Digital, who have released a super-fast and crazily affordable PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe solid state drive, the WD Blue SN570. Adding more NVMe capacity can be an absolute doddle depending on your computer. Most recent laptops and desktop PCs come with NVMe storage.
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