GamesRadar+ Verdict
The WD Blue SN5000 4TB tries to fill a gap in the storage market.
Im usually hesitant to take on SSDs like the 4TB WD Blue SN5000 for review.
Honestly, Im surprised to say that yes, it can be.
Overall though, the design of this drive is as thin as a 2280 M.2 NVMe SSD gets.
Its only 5.7g in weight and has LxWxH dimensions of 80 x 22 x 2.2mm - so pretty tiny.
Beyond that, there honestly isnt much to report about the features on board this drive.
Performance
But is that enough to make it a solid general-use drive, or a gaming option?
5,500MB/s is five and a half gigabytes of information read in a single second - its extremely quick.
So on both counts, the drive outperformed the numbers on its box.
These numbers translated brilliantly to general-use tasks and file transfers.
For a 70GB game, that isnt a long time to wait at all.
In terms of price, itll come down to you and your preferences for what will suit you more.
It isnt your normal content creation drive because it has the speeds of budget gaming drives today.
I kept track of how long each test took using a stopwatch.
For more onhow we test SSDs, check out the fullGamesRadar+ Hardware Policy.
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