Western Digital WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD 1TB, M.2 2280 / M-Key / PCIe 3.0 x4

WD gelingt es mit der neuen WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD erstaunlich gut, neuste Technologie mit einer positiven Gesamtleistung zu vereinen – und das zu einem guten Preis. In Sachen Transferleistung erreicht das Laufwerk in der Spitze die beworbenen Maximalwerte, ist im Alltag aber natürlich langsamer als Vertreter der PCIe-4.0-Fraktion. Im Großen und Ganzen dürften Normalanwender aber zufriedengestellt werden.

WD has a long history in the storage market, especially for hard-drives are they clearly the market leader. While their start into the SSD market has been slow, they've been improving steadily and have released very solid products over the years. At the beginning of 2021, they came out with the WD Black SN850 PCI-Express 4.0 SSD, which snatched up the "fastest SSD we ever tested" title and still holds it to this day. With such impressive progress in the high-end, it's not surprising that the WD Blue SN570 is also very impressive. Under the hood, this drive is built using a four-channel SanDisk 20-82-10023-A1 controller paired with 112-layer 3D TLC flash from Toshiba, which has been rebranded as SanDisk. A DRAM cache is not available.

It was only a matter of time until WD updated the popular Blue series of consumer solid-state drives. Now featuring a more performant controller and latest-generation TLC NAND, Blue SN570 fits in better with other modern, entry-level SSDs.