WD Blue SN570 Review - A Great Budget SSD with One Big Flaw

The new WD Blue SN570 Gen3 NVMe SSD is a great budget ssd, but it does have one flaw.
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Timestamps:
0:00​ - Introduction
1:02 - Seasonic 4tw
1:25 - WD Blue SN570 Overview
3:10​ - PC Mark 10 - Light Use (For use as a secondary drive)
4:15​ - PC Mark 10 - Heavier Use (OS Drive, Video Editors, etc)
4:58 - Consistency Test - Stress Test
5:27 - One Flaw - Sustained Write Speeds
6:49 - FLIR Image & Thermal Discussion
7:11 - Final Thoughts - Who is or isn't this SSD for?

Test Bench:
CPU - Intel Core i9-12900K
Motherboard - ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Hero
Memory - 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5-5200
Cooling - Corsair H150i Elite LCD
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
PSU - Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W

Disclosure:
- This product was provided by WD for the purpose of testing. As per my own guidelines, they don't get any say about anything in this video or any of my other reviews. It's not sponsored by them, they also didn't get to preview this video beforehand, or any other nonsense like that. My reviews reflect my own views, nothing more, nothing less.
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