Wd Quietly Swapping Out Nand Controller Chipset On Sn550 Blue Ssd
WD’s swap-out was first discovered and posted on the Chinese tech site, EXPReview, who noticed that the newer version of the SN550 Blue SSD it has, was performing slightly worse than other NVMe SSDs in the same range, particularly when it came to copying large files. Technically speaking, it found that both old and new versions of the SN550 were able to achieve their listed write speeds of 2.1GB/s, so long as the transfer doesn’t exceed the 12GB SLC cache size....