The Western Digital Blue SA510 is a solid-state drive in the 2.5" form factor, launched on May 31st, 2022. It is only available in the 2 TB capacity listed on this page. With the rest of the system, the Western Digital Blue SA510 interfaces using a SATA 6 Gbps connection. The SSD controller is the SM2259H from Silicon Motion, a DRAM cache chip is available. Western Digital has installed 112-layer TLC NAND flash on the Blue SA510, the flash chips are made by Kioxia. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The Blue SA510 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 560 MB/s and 520 MB/s write; random IO reaches 90K IOPS for read and 82K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 100 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Western Digital guarantees an endurance rating of 400 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.