WD Blue SN500 SSD Review: NVMe Performance, Dirt Cheap

Name: WD BLUE SN500
Brand: WD

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, May 10, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT

WD Blue SN500 SSD - HD Tune Benchmarks

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EFD Software's HD Tune is described on the company's website as such: "HD Tune is a hard disk utility with many functions. It can be used to measure the drive's performance, scan for errors, check the health status (S.M.A.R.T.), securely erase all data and much more." The latest version of the benchmark added temperature statistics and improved support for SSDs, among a few other updates and fixes.

HD Tune v5.70 Pro

More Info Here: http://www.hdtune.com

Once again we see the WD Blue SN500 trailing the other drives in terms of transfer speeds. Its latency characteristics, however, landed about in the middle of the pack, ahead of the Intel and ADATA drives.