Western Digital WD Black SN750, 250GB PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2-2280 Internal Solid State Drive

So far so GREAT! Before going to far I'm an intermediate computer nerd. I can tinker, build, install and troubleshoot somewhat, installs and building are the easy part for me. All the computer jargan with speeds and yadda yadda doesnt really register with me until I research things and gain an understanding.Otherwise Bought this for my higher end Gigabyte GA Z97MX Gaming 5 mobo v1 from 2014, yes 2014 because the pc is still running great. I was running off an old western digital sata 1tb hd and that thing ran like a sloth, I forget may not even write at 7k and the disk usage was always at 100%... fastforward 5 years I finally gave in and filled the M.2 slot with this bad boy (250gig). Good news first I haven't gamed with it yet but as for booting times and overall quickness I give it 4 thumbs up. My boot time has gone from 5min to about 30 seconds. Opening basic programs like discord and steam has gone from slow motion to fast forward. I can comfortably call myself an idiot for not getting an ssd as soon as they were available.Now here is where my novice skills came in. At first I could not get windows to install on this, windows registered the ssd but my mobo bios did not. So after trial and me only assuming driver and bios version issues I had to contact a friend. My assumptions were right and the bios was out of date so we flashed it and boom the ssd registered on all fronts and install was a breeze.So if you have my mobo gigabyte sold this backwards. They made the M.2 Pcie ssd technology available but did't make the mobo able to utilize it right away. It looks like it took 4 versions of the bios until the ssd could be read which really confused us and is kind of backwards, so thanks gigabyte... not wd's fault.So with this said, this thing is super fast for my build and I'm absolutely in love. Can'y wsit to see the load time on high demand games. BUY IT!

My BIOS (Gigabyte motherboard) recognized this NVMe without issue - used as a boot drive - on a new PC build.This NVMe SSD is fast. Far faster than a mechanical HDD or SATA-based SSD. You'll see a difference if upgrading from one of these.Well worth the investment. Price is lower than others and Western Digital is a trusted, quality company.The read/write speeds compete with higher priced NVMe's, but is much more reasonable in price. For gaming, business and general use, I see no reason to pay double (or more) for a NVMe that has between 5-20% better performance, but 2x or 3x the price. Compared to a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe in another build of mine, this Western Digital SN750 has slightly slower read/write speeds, but the difference is minor. I cannot tell a difference in real world application (gaming & business).Note: be sure to configure the NVMe *properly* within your BIOS. Some BIOS, like mine, did everything automatically except for selecting the NVMe as #1 in boot order; some BIOS may need more adjustments.

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I have installed several of these PCIe devices in the PCs that i have built for various people. When I say several, I'm talking about different brands and sizes for the storage devices.They all use the same technology, so their performance is roughly the same and is probably more effected by the PCIe interface than anything else. The BIG difference is that this brand and model was the simplest of all so far to install, format and use. It didn't need to be formatted, actually.Is it fast? Let's just say that it makes the SATA interface drives seem as if they're turtles, even the ones that are SATA to the M2 socket. There are other factors to the speed of a PC, but by far, the speed of the storage devices is a major factor tot he overall performance of the machine. You can have the fastest CPU in the world, but if t takes forever to load the app or the data, you're screwed.I like this product and I bought it for two reasons: Speed and Western Digital. Nuff said.