Western Digital WD Black SN750 1TB 3D NAND PCIe NVMe M.2-2280 Internal Solid State Drive

My wife and I have a 2015 Macbook Air. It still runs great and has plenty of life left in it. But after several years of trying to work with the 128GB SSD that it came with (across two user accounts), we decided recently that we need to upgrade the SSD in hopes of future-proofing it a bit.Reading up on our options led me the route of buying an M.2 SSD and an adapter that'd let me install it in my Mac, rather than having to accept the Apple/OWC surcharge for a drive with the original SSD's form factor. I liked what I was seeing with the specs of this SSD and decided to try it out, given my very good past experience with WD HDDs.Installation of both the adapter/SSD and a fresh copy of macOS 10.15 was a breeze. Black Magic benchmarks this drive at roughly 1350MB/s read and write, which is understandable given the bottleneck of this Mac's older PCI interface. But performance is still super snappy, and we have had zero issues with this upgraded setup so far. Sure, this drive is built with way more capability under the hood than what we'll ever use, but I'm totally ok with it considering how little we paid for it vs. buying an OEM/OWC replacement.I can imagine that if you're running a newer Mac/PC with a more current PCI interface that can take advantage of the additional read/write ability of this drive you'll have an even better experience. Regardless, if you happen to be a Mac user looking to upgrade your compatible MacBook Air (even if it's a relatively older one like ours), you owe it to yourself to check this drive out.

I purchased the WD_BLACK 1TB SN750 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive. Absolutely love the drive. This was my second WD_Black SSD drive in my MB. No issues with either. Easy install. My only real complaint is that the drive doesn't come with the screw used to hold it down in the motherboard. It's a tiny screw that actually threads into a mounting screw on the board. I guess WD assumes you have that other screw. I did.. but it wasn't in the board as I didn't need to have it there without the second SSD. The mounting screw was there but not the fastening screw. I had to go looking for the little one. I guess there's no way of knowing what size a person will need for what MB.Extremely fast and vastly superior for gaming over an HDD. As I said this was my second in the MB so that should tell you something. Definitely recommended to anyone looking to speed up their rig. Rig boots up in seconds.

I like WD drives and have always had good luck with them over the years. So I thought I would upgrade my older M.2 SATA SSD to the NVMe PCIe WD 3430 drive. I used the Acronis True image that I downloaded from the WD site. Mounted the new WD NVMe PCIe in my second M.2 slot and ran the Clone option in Acronis. The computer rebooted and in under 9 minutes I had a working NVMe drive. I have an ASUS Maximus IX Hero motherboard and after selecting X4 in the Bios for the PCIe bus I ran the Crystal DiskMark 6 test. The screenshot I included were the results right out of the box. I am extremely happy with the results. Faster boot times are also an added benefit.

I'll make this review short as I really don't have much to say.On my previous computer, which was a Walmart prebuilt, I had a 1TB WD Blue 7200RPM for pretty much everything; OS, storage for media, installed programs, you name it. And while it's a decent enough hard drive, it took FOREVER for the PC to boot and for programs to start up.So when I built my current PC, I decided to go for Solid State as even the worst SSDs are four times faster than the best HDDs. I read about NVMe and was intrigued by the aspect and decided to spend the $228 for this product (I bought the 1TB drives because I like to futureproof) and I will say decisively that I will never go back to HDD if I can help it. NVMe is like Solid State on steroids, it's much faster and definitely the best choice for the OS, your favorite programs, and any Mulitplayer games. I installed Windows 10 on it and startup, including the motherboard startup, takes around 5-8 seconds, a far cry better than the 2-3 minutes on my HDD. Programs start up fast, games start up fast, and it is RAID compatable if you set it up in the BIOS UEFI.All that for a drive the size of a stick of gum.If your motherboard has the option for NVMe, DO IT. You won't regret it.