WD Blue SN500 NVME SSD (250GB) Review - Product Showcase

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The following images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon DSLR shooting 24 MegaPixel photos. Right then, off we go.
  

 
Performance is listed at 1,700 MB/s for reads and 1,300 MB/sec for writes with roughly 170 IOPS at 4k random writes QD32 aligned disk access with our tested model (the numbers differ a bit per alternating volume size).
 

Above, the tested unit; you should easily be able to place the M.2 unit into a compatible motherboard. This stick needs PCIe 3.0 x2 / NVMe 1.3. You should, however, check out with the motherboard manufacturer if you have proper lane PCIe version with NVMe support.

While we'll look at components on the next page, we can already reveal .. yeah nothing on the backside.

One NAND chip and a controller, that's it.