Western Digital 250GB SN750 SE NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 3,600 MB/s - WDS250G1B0E

Review: Elevate your gaming experience with the WD_BLACK 1TB SN750 SE NVMe Internal Gaming SSD. Powered by Gen4 PCIe technology and boasting impressive read speeds of up to 3,600 MB/s, this solid-state drive delivers exceptional performance and faster load times. The M.2 2280 form factor ensures easy installation in compatible gaming systems. With 1TB of storage capacity, you'll have plenty of space for your favorite games, applications, and media files. The WD_BLACK SN750 SE is the ultimate choice for gamers who demand speed, reliability, and an immersive gaming experience. Upgrade your system and unleash the full potential of your gaming prowess with this high-performance gaming SSD.

So THE PLAN(tm) was to change out my SATA SSD for this M.2 NVMe drive. Unfortunately, I ran into a number of configuration problems that I am PRETTY SURE require that I flash my BIOS to be able to boot off the M.2 socket and I'm less than willing to go through that on a computer with a Gen 1 M.2 socket.That said, the read/write speed is 4.5 times that of my SATA SSD. When I cloned the drive, it took a little under an hour to clone 700gigs. Brutally fast, very good component. I'm going to store games and graphic files on here and pick up the active use performance boosts. I don't care too much about losing some boot speed; a long boot up time for my system is already 15 seconds; typically closer to 8.Also, prices dropped. If I had another M.2 socket to play with, I would definitely buy another drive and see about doing whatever black magic hoodoo voodoo that we all do to get it running. But for now, I'm putting it off until I get my new mobo and CPU.5/5 stars, would buy again.

This is my first experience with NVMe storage in my personal computer. I'm honestly completely blown away with how fast this drive is. Over the years I've gone from 5400RPM mechanical drives to 3D NAND SATA SSDs to this NVMe PCIe storage. I was initially very put off from this style of drive because of the price, but I decided to give it a try with my latest "revamp" of my desktop gaming PC. I was going to be replacing the motherboard and CPU so I figured it would be a decent time to try NVMe M.2 storage. I got the 1TB version with the heatsink; it was on a pretty great sale so I didn't want to pass it up. I've bought a lot of WD drives over the years and have NEVER had a single issue so I find the brand to be incredibly reputable.Installation was very straightforward. My motherboard came with a thermal pad to place underneath the drive to keep the heat away from the underlying PCB. It installed and screwed down without incident. I cloned my old Samsung SATA SSD to the WD drive and expanded the main partition to fill the additional space. The computer booted from the new drive as I hoped and everything is just SO MUCH SNAPPIER. Granted, I made a significant CPU upgrade at the same time, but I can tell that read and write speeds are helping dramatically with opening applications, particularly large and resource-heavy applications like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Aesthetics are nice. I find that a lot of PC components anymore are gaudy and "gamery". I don't own a windowed case so I don't really care what the gear inside looks like or what color it is, but the black and silver scheme should match pretty much anything. The heatsink is made by EK Water Blocks who have a very solid reputation the PC water cooling scene.I'm not the kind of guy that benchmarks drives. I'm also not going to go out of my way to buy the absolute "best" drive on the market because it writes a few more bytes per second than the other one. You can go down a rabbit hole really quick of finding the "best" and "fastest" of every computer component. Having said that, it's plenty fast for my needs and I have respect for the WD brand. I can get applications, games, and large photo collections/catalogs open without hesitation. Overall, I'm glad I bought it. It does seem to be expensive, but I do have to remind myself that there's an ENTIRE TERABYTE on a little tiny aluminum stick that just sits right on the motherboard and doesn't require additional power or cables. I will absolutely be sticking with M.2 NVMe drives going forward (at least until something new comes along).

I bought this new SN750 NVMe drive to move my OS from a Crucial SSD. This drive is noticeably faster. Installation was easy, but I did have trouble cloning my OS to this drive without corruption errors. I ended up backing up my pertinent files and fresh installing windows. Since the motherboard or CPU didn't change, Windows recognized my computer and I did not need to repurchase the OS. That being said and really at no fault to the drive, everything else has gone smoothly.PROS:- The drive is fast: The box says read/writes up to 3400MB/s sequentially. However I've found mine, without any cache enhancements, to be about 2900MB/s. Still very fast. With RAM caching of 4GB (which is what I typically use), read/writes came in about 8000MB/s. See the attached benchmark images for no enhancement runs and with enhancement runs. For reference, with caching my Crucial SSD where the OS used to be would average about 800MB/s.- Temps are solid: My motherboard included a m.2 heatsink which I am using for this. The m.2 slot on my board for the NVMe primary slot is right under the graphics card. So, when that starts putting out some heat, this thing will heat up a little as well. Even with that temperatures are in very respectable ranges. After running my benchmarks for the drive, the average was 41C and hottest was 44C, as seen in the image. After a gaming session, the peak temperature I've seen for the drive was 55C, but typically stays under 48C.- Price: The prices for 3D NAND drives have been coming down and probably will continue to do so. Last year at this time, a 500GB drive was about $250. I picked this one up for $120. These will probably come down some more from there. All good news for us consumers.CONS:My only con would be the issues I had with cloning the drive, most of which are not really related to this drive, but more related to the cloning software and my OS.My final thoughts on this are: this drive performs very close to the Samsung 970 Plus drive. They are also about the same price. The Samsung and this are about the fastest drives you can buy at this price-point and are essentially interchangeable. The SN750 is vastly superior to an SSD, and the differences are noticeable in everyday use. WD products in my experience have been reliable with no drive failing for me in the past. So to anyone looking to get this, I would recommend.

I received everything as advertised. Works great, exactly what I was looking for.

Depois de instalado, esse SSD NVMe deixou o PC mais veloz no carregamento do SO e nas reinicializações do sistema, programas abrem rapidamente e a navegação na internet melhorou bastante no carregamento de paginas, muita coisa melhorou no PC com a utilização desse SSD NVMe.Nunca mais quero saber de utilizar HDs de discos magnéticos e SSDs tipo SATA.

Great NVME for price with copy of BF2042, the game has come along way and well worth $30. And SSD is fast enough to really not notice a difference with more expensive one..NVMe looked good and was easy to install, price i paid for it $52 was great deal.

Easy to install great price (on sale)Fast SSD . Game code was working nothing to complain about

Very, very fast in a Thunderbolt housing

Excelente producto, hice un cambio del ssd de mi equipo, una dell g3-17 3779 que tenia solo 128gb.... Cloné mi antiguo ssd con el el software de NTI y fue casi inmediato, aunque al final decidí hacer una reinstalación limpia de windows 11 desde cero. A la fecha funciona de maravilla, tengo ahora un ssd de arranque de 1 Tb para programas y datos y un ssd secundario de 500 gb... Arranque muy rápido y acceso a programas casi instantaneo.Lo recomiendo al 100%... está excelente...