Solid state storage continues to grow speedier and more spacious while prices for drives fall, resulting in plenty of affordable drives with surprisingly peppy specs. Take WD Blue SN5000, a budget SSD that punches well above its market moniker.
WD Blue SN5000 2TB
“WD Blue SN5000 NVMe™ SSD is next-generation storage designed for creators and professionals.” – Sandisk
Head over to Amazon US and you’ll save yourself a tidy 31% ($50) on a 2TB WD Blue SN5000, making it just $109.99. Meanwhile, Amazon UK shoppers can enjoy a 25% (£33.99) discount on the same drive, bringing its cost down to a welcome £104.00.
As part of WD’s ‘Blue’ series, SN5000 is a jack of all trades. It’ll serve you well as the primary drive for your operating system but proves a reliable secondary storage solution for larger files too, be it games, media, etc. Boasting 2TB of space and respective sequential read and write speeds of 5,150MB/s and 4,850MB/s, it offers plenty of space and speed.
As one should expect from a WD SSD, SN5000 is made of strong stuff. It features an endurance rating of 900TBW (Terabytes Written), meaning you’d need to completely fill it up from empty around 450 times. For context, you’d need to install Cyberpunk 2077 on this drive more than 15,000 times to do so.
SN5000 doesn’t need a heatsink to operate at its top speeds. As such, you can throw it into any compatible slot in your PC or even laptop without a second thought. Of course, there’s no harm in slotting it under one of your motherboard’s passive heatsinks or an aftermarket cooler if you want to keep it running as optimally as possible.
For further piece of mind, SN5000 comes with a five-year warranty as standard. Should you need to check the health of your drive, you can easily do so via the Western Digital Dashboards software. From there, you can test performance as well as track other metrics such as TBW. The SSD also comes with a five-year licence for Acronis True Image as a welcome bonus.
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