WD SN550 1tb NVME

TbirdX · 21 May 2020 at 17:16

Any reason not to get one at just over a hundred quid?

Boot drive and whatever, no heavy anything, general usage mainly.

Or should I be looking at something else around £100?

andy_mk3 · 21 May 2020 at 17:35

Absolutely no reason to avoid that at all.

Gray2233 · 21 May 2020 at 17:42

Cracking drive at that price, can't think of anything else that would come remotely close.

Infiniteey · 22 May 2020 at 18:28

Was just looking at this drive too and couldn't find anything else in terms of TB/£ with same performance.

TbirdX · 22 May 2020 at 18:29

Well I ordered one, arrives tomorrow :-)

Zefan · 22 May 2020 at 18:41

This vs Sabrent Rocket Q? I normally research the absolute hell out of everything but time isn't on my side nowadays.

Alex h · 23 May 2020 at 10:26

Zefan said:
This vs Sabrent Rocket Q? I normally research the absolute hell out of everything but time isn't on my side

I wouldnt choose the rocket q the tlc rocket is the better of the 2 rockets but slightly more

MrRockliffe · 23 May 2020 at 10:47

Zefan said:
This vs Sabrent Rocket Q? I normally research the absolute hell out of everything but time isn't on my side nowadays.

I wouldn’t go for a Q. You’d be better off going for a premium SATA SSD :-)

Gray2233 · 23 May 2020 at 12:17

Zefan said:
This vs Sabrent Rocket Q? I normally research the absolute hell out of everything but time isn't on my side nowadays.

The Q stands for QLC which is inferior to the TLC in the SN550. The standard Rocket is a great piece of kit though.

TbirdX · 23 May 2020 at 21:39

Well, it's all installed, blimey it's tiny.

Had some fun and games getting it to boot after cloning though, everything seemed to go ok, restart, into bios, select new drive as first boot, f10 enter.

no boot drive please restart and select etc.

Reselect original SSD, boot, format, re clone, repeat, same result. Aw shucks.

after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I 'discovered' a boot option that said 'legacy+uefi'. Changed it to UEFI only, select NVME drive, F10, enter, and off we go all working fine.

:-)