Western Digital WD Blue SN580 500GB

The Western Digital WD Blue SN580 500GB is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, using the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and NVMe protocol. It has a capacity of 500 GB and uses TLC NAND flash memory with a SanDisk A101 controller. The drive does not include a DRAM cache. Sequential read speeds are up to 4000 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 3600 MB/s. Random read performance is 306129 IOPS, and random write performance is 605828 IOPS. The total bytes written rating is 300 TB, and it comes with a 5-year warranty. The launch MSRP was 199 USD.