WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD Review

The WD Blue SN580 comes in a smallish box with a clear image of the drive on the front. Under the image is a line of text that tells you that it's an M.2 2280 drive and under this is an icon displaying the fact that the drive is supported by a 5-year warranty and the Sequential read figure (up to 4,150MB/s).

The rear of the box has a small clear plastic panel through which part of the drive is visible, sitting in its protective plastic enclosure. The only other thing in the box is a Technical Support and Warranty Guide.

 
WD’s 1TB Blue SN580 is a single-sided PCB design, so the rear of the drive is empty, mind you, with only a very small controller, a single NAND package (coded Sandisk 000888 1T00) and a power management chip, the front side of the drive isn't exactly crowded either. Details on the controller (coded A101-000137) are very hard to find but the best guess is that it's four-channel while the NAND is 112-Layer BiCS5 3D TLC NAND.

WD’s SSD management utility goes under the name of SSD Dashboard. With it, you can monitor drive status, performance, update firmware and monitor temperatures. There’s no cloning tool integrated into the utility but you can download Acronis True Image WD Edition from the WD website. There is also an option to change the layout to a dark mode.

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