The Western Digital Blue SA510 is a solid-state drive in the 2.5" form factor, launched on May 31st, 2022. It is available in capacities ranging from 250 GB to 1 TB. This page reports specifications for the 500 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Western Digital Blue SA510 interfaces using a SATA 6 Gbps connection. The SSD controller is the SDC1 (A101-000125) Milpitas from WD, a DRAM cache is not 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 processed more quickly. The Blue SA510 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 560 MB/s and 510 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 90K for reads and 82K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 75 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Western Digital guarantees an endurance rating of 200 TBW, a relatively low value compared to other SSDs.