[US] 1TB WD Green SN350 NVMe SSD for $32 w/Promo Code

[YoungBlade]

Newegg is currently selling the 1TB WD Green SN350 PCIe Gen 3 NVMe drive for $32 with a promo code.

 

https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-1tb-green-sn350-nvme/p/N82E16820250202

 

This would be a good drive to upgrade from a hard drive in a system with an M.2 slot, or to use for cheap fast storage - like for a games drive - although I wouldn't recommend it for a media scratch disk due to its relatively low 100 TBW endurance. It could be a reasonable option for a budget build, giving a full 1 TB of SSD storage.

 

Serve The Home did a review of the drive in March 2022, giving it a middling 6.1 out of 10, disappointed by its price compared to other options with better endurance and performance. Back then, it was selling for $90. At $32, however, I think the drive is worth considering for light duty workloads.

 

The specs are good, with reads up to 3200 MB/s and writes up to 2500 MB/s. However, the drive is a DRAM-less QLC drive, so its sustained write performance is not great - high-end SATA SSDs are actually better in that regard, so it's not a blanket upgrade from that. It is, however, faster than low-end SATA SSDs and hard drives. The 100 TBW endurance is perfectly fine for normal, day-to-day usage with browsing, office work, or gaming, or for use in a drive that will mainly be read from (like a games drive or media backup), but it would get used up quickly if used as a scratch disk or other use case where the drive's contents are being regularly re-written.