At the moment we’re wanting on the WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD. That is the third WD Blue SSD I’ve reviewed for STH, beforehand overlaying each the SN550 and SN570. Each of these drives had been discovered to be competent drives with modest efficiency and compelling pricing. Since this can be a member of WD’s mainstream Blue line, that’s my expectation for the SN580 as nicely, and it is usually indicative of basic market traits {that a} big-brand Gen4 drive is now within the mainstream product line. Allow us to see how the WD Blue SN580 stacks up.
WD Blue SN580 1TB NVMe SSD
The WD Blue SN580 1TB is available in a single-sided M.2 2280 (80mm) kind issue.
The bodily PCB design of the SN580 is according to the SN550 and SN570 earlier than it. What we have now here’s a DRAM-less drive, that includes a single NAND bundle and an in-house controller. On the drive, these are bodily separated by a ways, which manner again after I reviewed the unique SN550 I used to be informed was for thermal administration functions, and WD has caught with that very same design ever since.
As a single-sided drive, the again of the SN580 has nothing however silkscreened labels on it.
Seagate SN580 SSD Specs
The SN580 is obtainable in capacities between 250GB and 2TB.
The WD Blue SN580 we have now as we speak is the 1TB mannequin, which claims sequential learn and write speeds of 4150 MB/s. Whereas the WD Blue SN580 is electrically a Gen4 drive, the rated efficiency solely simply barely exceeds the extent of a top-end Gen3 drive. Additionally of be aware to avid gamers rocking a PS5, the SN580 will work in a PS5 however it’s nicely under the really helpful 5500 MB/s learn velocity ranking. Modest-rated sequential learn and write speeds point out that we have to set reasonable efficiency expectations for this drive.
Endurance for the SN580 1TB drive is true on my acceptable line at 600 TBW, and scales down appropriately for the smaller SKUs. Sadly, the 2TB mannequin doubles in capability however the rated endurance solely goes up by 50%; for 2TB drives, I prefer to see 1200 TBW of rated endurance. With that each one mentioned, as we speak’s drive has acceptable endurance and the Blue line is just not supposed for intensive use within the first place. The guarantee is the business normal of 5 years, which is nice to see as all the time.
CrystalDiskInfo may give us some fundamental details about the SSD and ensure we’re working at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds utilizing NVMe 1.4.
Check System Configuration
We’re utilizing the next configuration for this take a look at:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (12C/24T)
- RAM: 2x 16GB DDR5-6000 UDIMMs
Our testing makes use of the WD Blue SN580 1TB because the boot drive for the system, put in within the M.2_1 slot on the motherboard. This slot helps as much as PCIe Gen 5 x4. The drive is crammed to 85% capability with information, after which some is deleted, leaving round 60% used house on the amount.
Subsequent, we’re going to get into our efficiency testing.
