Does it come with screw if not what's the size of screw

The WD blue SN550 does NOT come with screws. M3 screws should do the trick on 2.5" SSD Dell systems. You should have to go up a size for a 3.5" drive to a 6-32 (head pattern varies). Start with an M3 then if sloppy, use the thicker 6-32 screw.

How do you clone this drive?

The recommendation of Ghost as a cloning program is terrible. The consumer version of Norton Ghost was discontinued sometime back in 2013-2014. It was designed specifically for Windows 7 and is thus obsolete for today's hardware and software requirements. It's replacement, Symantec Ghost, was designed primarily for enterprise use. so unless you're working in an IT department environment, it's probably the worst choice for the home consumer who simply wants to upgrade their personal PC or laptop to a faster M.2 NVMW drive. There are plenty of free cloning software applications out there: AOMEI, Macrium, Clonezilla, and others. Go on the web, look up "free cloning software", read the reviews. I personally would go to the WD support website and take a look at their user forum. There are plenty of users there who have had hands on experience cloning to their WD M.2 NVMW devices; they provide detail as to what software works and what doesn't work for cloning.

hi, i'm new to this, does it work for an asus rog strix b450 f gaming?

for anyone else reading this, YES this will work for the Rog Strix B450-F gaming motherboard. The other user that answered saying you'd need an adapter is wrong. The Rog Strix B450-F Gaming mobo has two M.2 slots. I know, I have the same setup.

does it need a heatsink?

This one? Probably not, unless you're writing to it a lot. Unless you have two nvme drives, you probably won't be able to get enough sustained writes at full speed to really warm it up. Gen4 drives this answer is always yes. In a gen 3 drive, there's a rather wide range of watts used by the nvme drive. Some are 2x or more than others. This drive, the hynix gold p31 and a few others are at the very low end of the power demand/heat generated curve, and are ideal for laptops and other tight places. You don't really miss out on anything by not buying a power hungry drive like a samsung evo. Those aren't any faster than this drive is. On nvme drives, it's also usually the controller chip (the little one near the nvme connector) that needs cooling. Those will thermal throttle at ~70C or so, cutting into the drive performance. The NAND flash, up to a point (~100C) doesn't care about heat and may even perform better at higher therms, with a small loss of lifespan. So a small stick on "raspberry pi" style heatsink placed on the controller will usually keep a drive out of thermal throttle, and you shouldn't need even that on this drive.

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A**N

Good enough - though I'm using this as an external memory drive.

The price and the performance is good. Apparently, on paper, this is better than the Crucial P1 and P2 modules and my Intel 660p. Speeds reach 200MB/s while using it as an external USB storage device (UGREEN NVME M ENCLOSURE). So far, no complaints in any context. I do recommend this.

8.06.2021

A**L

Amazing!

I bought this SSD as a replacement to my Samsung SSD which comes with my MacBook Air, this is a total upgrade and can really notice the difference in my machine performance. Recommended!

17.03.2022

J**R

Works as expected.

The transfer rate is so fast. Works well with my UGreen enclosure.

13.01.2022

S**E

Despite problem to clone the OS, quality product at a great price with a trusted Amazon delivery.

Delivered as promised. Good product. One issue, I faced to clone the OS from the provided HDD. Used many softwares, but failed to boot. And remind you, it was all done by an IT expert. Finally after many tries, one software worked and now working great. Really fast booting. Certainly a good product. I installed it on a brand new Dell optiplex 3080MT.

26.03.2021

O**A

6 months into the purchase, so far so good.

Got this 6 months ago, I use it on a Lenovo Y520 with the OS installed on it So far so good, Crystaldiskinfo still shows 100% health, with 3726GB total host reads and 3355GB total host writes. Don't know how heavy of a usage that is considered but as the title says: So far so good.

20.06.2022

I**I

very good product

Excelent price and quality. delivery time was impressive

4.03.2022

H**I

Great upgrade

I got this one for a gaming laptop that I bought last year (hp omen), which had like 250gbs on the main hard drive. It changed everything about this laptop! 1Tb is a huge difference. I had someone help me copy the system into the new hard drive so that I don't have to install everything from scratch

31.12.2020

B**I

Blazing fast load times.

I got my flight sim load times, with its bajillion addons, down from a terrible 10-15 mins on a USB HDD to about 30 seconds. These things have a shelf life, but the disk management software gives you a clear status update so you know when to migrate things. These days it's best to go for the 1tb mark. Any less fills up too fast, any more gets exponentially more expensive.

28.07.2021

ASIN	B07YFFX5MD
Additional Features	Portable
Best Sellers Rank	#113,423 in Computers ( See Top 100 in Computers ) #858 in Internal Solid State Drives
Brand	Western Digital
Built-In Media	SSD
Cache Memory Installed Size	1
Color	Blue
Compatible Devices	Desktop, Laptop
Connectivity Technology	M.2
Connectivity technology	M.2
Customer Package Type	Individual Packaging
Customer Reviews	4.7 out of 5 stars 39,406 Reviews
Data Transfer Rate	2400 Megabytes Per Second
Digital Storage Capacity	1 TB
Digital storage capacity	1 TB
Enclosure Material	metal
Form Factor	M.2 2280
Global Trade Identification Number	00718037868738
Hard Disk Description	Solid State Hard Drive
Hard Disk Form Factor	2280 Inches
Hard Disk Interface	NVMe
Hard disk form factor	2280 Inches
Hard disk interface	NVMe
Hard-Drive Size	1 TB
Hardware Connectivity	PCIE x 4
Installation Type	Internal Hard Drive
Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness	8L x 2.2W x 0.2Th centimeters
Item Weight	0.2 Ounces
Item height	2.38 millimeters
Manufacturer	Western Digital
Media Speed	2.400 MB/s
Model Name	SN550
Model Number	WDS100T2B0C
Number of Items	1
Read Speed	2400 Megabytes Per Second
Special features	Portable
Specific Uses For Product	Business, Gaming, Personal
UPC	718037868738
Unit Count	1 Count
Warranty Description	5 year

Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C

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