WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. WD Blue SN550 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read v QD Performance10. 4K Random Write v QD Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 8 - Storage Consistency14. PCMark 8 - Individual Test Suites15. PCMark 8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites16. Performance Stability17. Cache Performance18. Performance v Capacity19. Real Life File Testing20. Closing Thoughts21. View All Pages

For the long term performance stability test, we set the drive up to run a 20-minute 4K random test with a 30% write, 70% read split, at a Queue Depth of 256 over the entire disk. The 1TB WD Blue SN550 averaged 43,290 IOPS for the test with a very respectable performance stability of 82.8%.

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