Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 2

How do you clone this drive?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 4

does it need a heatsink?

Accepted Answer

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.

Brand	Western Digital
Product Dimensions	8 x 2.2 x 0.24 cm; 5.67 g
Item model number	WDS100T2B0C
Manufacturer	Western Digital
Series	SN550
Color	Blue
Form Factor	M.2 2280
RAM Size	1 TB
Hard Drive Size	1 TB
Hard Disk Description	Solid State Hard Drive
Hard Drive Interface	NVMe
Wattage	4.9 watts
Hardware Platform	X86_64
Are Batteries Included	No
Lithium Battery Energy Content	2 Kilowatt Hours
Lithium Battery Packaging	Batteries contained in equipment
Lithium Battery Weight	2 Grams
Number Of Lithium Ion Cells	5
Number of Lithium Metal Cells	5
Item Weight	5.66 g

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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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