WD Blue SN580 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD

The WD Blue SN580 is a 1 TB internal NVMe solid state drive on the PCIe 4.0 interface, built to serve as the main drive in a desktop or laptop that needs fast boots, fast project loads and room for a working library of files. It connects over PCIe 4.0 x4 and is rated at 4,150 MB/s sequential read and 4,150 MB/s sequential write, so large transfers move at the same rate in both directions instead of falling away on the write side. The form factor is M.2 2280, the standard single-slot size found on current desktop motherboards and most modern laptops, and the drive is covered by a five-year warranty. Day to day it suits a photo or video editor working off scratch files, an office or study machine that has outgrown a mechanical hard drive, and anyone building a system who wants the operating system and their active projects on the same quick drive. Fitting it takes one screw in the M.2 slot with no data cable and no separate power lead, which keeps airflow clear inside a small case and removes two more things that can work loose.