Western Digital 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0B

Short version Pros: Has a DRAM Cache Decent performance and price for a midrange SSD 5-year Warranty Cons: Non-discounted pricing is atrocious 250G version is not the best deal Long Version As someone who frequently refurbishes old hardware others throw out, I tend to ignore the "midrange" of SSDs. Either I'll buy something ridiculously cheap (like that time when a 128G ADATA SU650 was at $16), or spend <$50 on a 256G NVMe and throw in a budget 500G SSD when they dip under $50 or an old hard drive. Generally I would stay away from the more "premium" SSDs since smaller capacities aren't that good of a deal, and as a student I would prefer to spend less on hardware that I'm not going to use daily. If it is hardware that I either care about or something I use heavily, I'll probably just go for something from Samsung, Micron, or a SK Hynix Gold when Woot puts it on a discount again. This time however, I had a 2012 Macbook Air where the original drive it came with was really showing its age, especially an unresponsive keyboard during login, so I decided I would swap out the drive while doing some overdue maintenance, using a SSD adapter for the 2012 Macbook Air. Compared to the original drive (which I forgot to take a screenshot of the test results), the sequential read performed better, from ~430MB/s to ~490MB/s with little change for sequential write. However, the system was quite smoother (less stutter that was caused by the drive), and even though it doesn't hit the advertised speeds, I'm still very happy with the upgrade. Generally the WD Blue is actually an SSD that I would recommend my friends to buy if they're on a bit more of a budget, just because it's not outrageously priced, the warranty and performance is pretty good from past experience, and it has a DRAM cache which makes it excellent for a boot drive. It's just not something I would buy normally because of the use scenarios I have. Would I recommend it? Yes, as long as you're not paying for more than ~$70 for the 500G version and you're not considering the smaller capacities. >$40 for a 250G SSD is a bit steep, and the only time when the 250G version became a good deal was when one of my friends bought it at $45 each on somewhere that's not Amazon (which is a horrible price), but they accidentally shipped him two drives and they got to keep both.

Paying a tad more for a better product here, this Western Digital drive worked immediately and has had no problems of any kind. I don't even think about it anymore, which is The Goal, isn't it? Just make sure you want a SATA drive and not one of the newer NVMe drives. They aren't the same thing. They don't fit in the same slot. This is an excellent SATA drive.

Easy to install and the quality is great. It looks just like in the pictures and the compatibility is 10/10. It doesn't get too hot and it works faster than my old factory SSD M.2.

used it as my C drive for years, havent had an issue with it. impressive speed.

My laptop came with a 128 GB SSD for Win 10 to run on. I was running out of room, so I upgraded to this 500 GB SSD. Very fair price for the memory, and I went with WD for the brand name rather than some unknown Chinese brand drive. I also purchased a QNINE M.2 to USB 3.0 Adapter to clone my original drive. I used Acronis True Image WD Edition to clone my drive. The software works fine. It says you must have on WD drive connected to the computer to use it. I had no trouble and my original drive is not a WD. My recovery partition was at the end of the 128 GB SSD. I tried other software first because of other reviews I had seen here for the WD drive cloning. Acronis was the only free solution I could find that would allow me to move that recovery partition to the end of the new 500 GB WD drive. I had to set the recovery partition end to the drive end and set the recovery partition size. Then I could make my system partition the maximum size, using the rest of the drive space. Once this was done, I opened up my laptop and swapped the drives. Powered up the laptop, and it just worked. Nothing else to it.

This is my second purchase of this product. The first one went into a system I was building from scratch and all went well. This purchase was to switch my wife's Acer Aspire E 15 laptop from HDD to SSD technology. Seems simple? Not with this unit. First thing is after physically installing (easy) the WD Altris software would not install saying there was no WD drive on the system. After checking the BIOS it turns out this SSD is made by Sandisk, which is now owned by WD. OK, so I have a WD drive in an USB enclosure and was able to get the install to run. When I ran the Altris OEM software it reported there was no WD OR SANDISK product in the system. I initialized the Sandisk SSD and got past that hurdle. Time to clone my 1TB HDD to the 500MB SSD! The software says it will resize proportionally. Fine by me, just do it! So it gets started cloning and almost immediately stops and says I must restart my system. Some searching finds I need to disable safe boot. Done. Same result. I finally had to purchase the AOMEI product for $50 to clone the HDD. That worked as advertised. Bottom line, don't rely on the WD software if you intend to clone to this SSD, at least from a larger HDD and be aware you may be purchasing a Sandisk product with a WD label!

Honestly, at first, i was a bit skeptical about this SSD. I decided to give it a shot and see how fast this thing really is! and boy I can't stress how good this SSD is, first if you want FULL utilization of your SSD speeds download your OS on the SSD and maybe get an extra HDD if you want to store huge files but this boots my pc in less than a 10 seconds! literally turn it on and it INSTANTLY boots into windows the second I put my pin it already got in. would repurchase for a future build. GAMING: Tired of those old loading screens that take minutes and minutes? Well, normally on my HDD games would take minutes and minutes to load but with this it takes seconds! really it's worth every penny.

I will not comment on the SSD's performance, other folks in here did a good job on that already. My goal was to upgrade an original 256 GiB SSD in an Alienware 15 (R0 or R1, the one that does not accept NVMe SSDs) to the larger 500 GiB one. Between a few choices, what drove me to the WD Blue was a combination of good reviews, price, and the availability of the Acronis True Image cloning software. Obviously there are many choices of cloning software, many of them free and efficient (looking at you, Easeus). I was gladly impressed with the Acronis True Image. I installed the SSD (now what is this about no SSD including the darn screw? A few cents, perhaps a dollar, to include a screw in an $130-plus product?) and loaded Acronis. At first, the new SSD would not be found: I had to make the SSD "online" through Windows' Computer Management interface. Acronis gives you a few choices of cloning: (1) an exact image, which will maintain all partition sizes and location as they were originally (thus you get no increase in size; you would have to do that later); (2) allow Acronis to increase the target partition size as it assumes best; or (3) manual definition of target partition location and sizes. Option (2) would not work well for me. My original SSD had some 6 partitions (many of them recovery partitions that I do not know were really being utilized, but I will figure that out later), and Acronis would always pick the wrong one to allocate the extra space in the new SSD. Thus, I selected the manual cloning, which gives you an initial exact-image template, and then you can move the partitions and/or change their size in the target SSD. As such, I maintained the order of the partitions on the new SSD, and allocated all the extra space to the "system" partition. The next issue is that I utilize Bitlocker in my drives. Acronis True Image will not clone Bitlocker-encrypted partitions, either online, or offline (booting from an Acronis boot disk or USB). I had to therefore disable Bitlocker and decrypt my drives prior to cloning, which took a considerable amount of time. Once done, Acronis could initiate the cloning process. I left the cloning operation running and occupied myself with other matters. I came back after a while (one hour, perhaps) to verify what next steps were necessary for Acronis to finish the cloning procedure. I expected to have to configure the new boot device as the new SSD in Windows, or through Acronis. What I found was the computer already rebooted, utilizing the new SSD as the new boot device, all partitions correctly configured as I designed, and the old SSD available and untouched (apart from not set as the boot device any longer). Not bad. Not bad at all. Now what is this about not including the darn screw? I will not cut stars because of this, but, come on. Between two competing SSDs, similar prices/performance, one includes the darn screw, which one do you thing consumers would buy?

Almayı düşünen varsa daha yorumun devamını okumadan ödemeyi gerçekleştirebilir. + Amazon paketlemesi ve kargolaması gayet başarılı. + WD SSD programını indirip kullanım detaylarını izleyebilirsiniz. + Samsung ile arasında büyük bir fark yoktu. İnce detaylar vardı. İkisi de pişman etmez büyük ihtimalle. Aldığım tarihte bu üründe kampanya vardı o yüzden tercih ettim. + M2 Modeldir. + NVME modeli değildir. Kesinlikle böyle bir beklentiniz olmasın. + Özellikle eski masaüstü ve laptoplarda kesinlikle farkını hissedersiniz. Açılış süresini çok fazla etkiliyor. + Yeni donanım kuranlar bunun üzerine depolama yapabilir, sisteminiz destekliyorsa NVME alın kesinlikle çok daha iyi olacaktır. + Eski donanımlar NVME desteklemediği için şansınız bu o yüzden gönül rahatlığıyla tercih edilir. + 2.5 HDD boyutunda olan SSD almak yerine anakart üzerinde M2 soketiniz varsa bunu alın. En azından CD-ROM sökmek ile uğraşmazsınız.

I have watch a lot of DIYs on building your own pc because I have always wanted to build one on my own. Though I was kind or reluctant because I might damage the expensive parts I manage to assemble it without any hiccups. Now although I'm no expert I can tell you that booting Windows from this SSD is fast. 25 seconds fast from pressing the ON button to Windows screen. Now I say its fast because my old pc (2010) Intel 2600K took a century to boot windows. I understand that 25 seconds might not be fast for pc enthusiast but it works for me. So if you don't mind the 25 seconds waiting time I recommend buying this M.2 SSD.

Lo usé para sustituir un SSD de 256 GB de una lap fabricada en el 2017. El programa de diagnóstico del fabricante me reportaba que el SSD original estaba ya defectuoso, aunque en realidad nunca me falló más que para leer un sector específico. De cualquier manera, aprovechando el cambio quise aumentarle la capacitad de almacenamiento del equipo a 500 GB, pero sin gastar demasiado. Aparte que los SSD SATA III ya son escasos. Y ahora tras el cambio del disco el mismo programa de diagnóstico no me detecta ya ningún defecto, tampoco hubieron problemas de compatibilidad. La caja del SSD WD dice que puede leer hasta una velocidad de 560 Mb/s y escribir hasta 530 Mb/s: en la realidad, en mi lap lo máximo que pude obtener fueron velocidades de transferencia 493 y 413 Mb/s respectivamente. Aunque si comparo con el desempeño de la anterior memoria de marca Micron contra este WD, en teoría el desempeño es 43% mejor. Creo que producto es bueno; funcionó mejor de lo que esperaba inicialmente de hecho; mi única queja sería que el proceso de envío fue algo tortuoso, debido en parte al proveedor y en parte a la paquetería. Yo creo que nunca vuelvo a comprar algo que no sea enviado por Amazon. De eso ya hablaré luego en la evaluación del proveedor "Paguito".

Snelle levering. Eenvoudige montage. Werkt perfect.

Bought this item since my old laptop ultra thin 2.5" harddisk (5mm in thickness) is showing a sign that it will end it's life soon, and this type of harddisk is quite hard to find. So I decided to purchase this item and with the help of the adapter, I could upgrade my storage and able to extend the life of my laptop for another years :D