Western Digital 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T2B0A

I bought this WD Blue 1TB SSD to replace the ancient slow running Samsung 1TB mechanical HD in my 2014 Dell Inspiron15R laptop, which literally took 10+ minutes to boot up and fully load the operating system. This new WD Blue 1TB SSD brought new life to my old machine. It boots up in <20 seconds, and is very snappy running programs. Read and write speeds were dramatically increased as well (e.g., it took 8 hours to create a system image of the old HD vs. 2 hours to image the new SSD). It was easy to physically install too (it was slightly thinner than my old HD, so I just put 2 tiny stick-on felt pads inside the HD bay for support, and it was good to go). >>The installation procedure that I used below worked flawlessly for me (I did not use the Acronis cloning software because my laptop only has one internal HD bay and Acronis advised not to clone an existing system drive to an externally connected USB drive-bay because the cloned drive may fail to boot): 1. Created a system image of the original Samsung HD using the standard Windows 10 process in control panel (saved the system image to an external USB3 HD) 2. Created a system start-up/repair boot DVD when prompted to do so after the system image creation process successfully completed (my laptop has a DVD burner in it, but you can make one with a USB jump drive too) 3. Shut down the laptop and removed the battery 4. Removed the bottom cover on the laptop and replaced the old HD with the new WD Blue 1TB SSD 5. Reinstalled the battery and turned the laptop back on with the external USB3 HD connected 6. After turning laptop back on it asked for a start-up boot disc since the new SSD was blank and un-initialized 7. Inserted DVD and rebooted laptop to load the system start-up/repair program 8. Selected 'restore drive from system image' on the menu and it automatically searched and found the previously created system image located on the external USB3 HD 9. Started the restoration process, which took about an hour to finish 10. After restoration process successfully completed, I removed the system boot DVD and restarted the laptop (as instructed by Windows) 11. System booted up quickly with zero problems and everything was just like the original drive in every way, only much faster! I feared all sorts of drama upon start-up with the new SSD, but I was elated to see everything worked perfectly (all existing program product keys and iTunes account mapped over transparently) As for long term reliability, I cannot say because it’s only been a few days since I installed it, but I’ve had good luck with WD products over the years (after successful SSD installation I went to WD's website and filled out the warranty registration online). The speed increase and low power consumption make this SSD an excellent upgrade from older slow HD’s. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

A must-have SSD for an older computer. I finally got around to installing this WD SSD in my 2012 quad-core i7/16GB Mac Mini which is running Catalina and it works flawlessly. I had Catalina OS installed on a four-year-old Seagate 5400rpm hard-drive and that old drive was as slow as molasses. It wasn't so bad with Mojave but with Catalina, I kept getting beachballs on any operation that required disk reads and I did everything I could think of to speed it up but nothing worked. The Seagate showed no errors or anything, but it was just too slow at transferring data with Catalina. Using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on that old hard-drive, the needle barely moved (around 50MB/s) on reads and writes. Absolutely horrible. I couldn't wait to install this SSD into the Mac Mini and it only took about half an hour (I also put in a new fan for good measure). I took my time to make sure everything was done right. Now the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test shows about 450MB/s for writes and 510MB/s for reads and no more beachballs. This SSD runs very cool and is quite snappy with anything requiring reads and writes. It's a terrific replacement drive. I had cloned my Seagate drive with Carbon Copy Cloner and then cloned it back to the SSD after I formatted the SSD using Apple Disk Utility's AFPS option. Everything went smooth as silk. Copying took a few hours because my backup drive was also a 5400rpm USB drive with about 500GB to move. I shouldn't have waited as long as I did as I bought the SSD a few weeks ago, but I was too lazy to make the swap. I highly recommend this SSD to put new life in an older Mac Mini. Catalina runs great on it. Only 2% - 4% CPU use on idle. I just purchased a 2018 6-core i7 Mac Mini with 16GB and 1TB SSD, so I'm going to swap my 2012 Mac Mini out and use it for something else. It's still a great little computer after all these years and the SSD gave it new life. I don't know why Apple now sells any IMac with a spinning hard-drive. Those things are too slow.

I am writing this review after 3 years of purchase. I bought this WD Blue 1TB SSD back in June 2022, and after three years of daily use, I can confidently say it’s been a fantastic investment. My laptop is almost never shut down—it’s constantly running with multiple applications open, and this SSD has handled everything smoothly and reliably. Boot times are still fast, programs open instantly, and I haven’t experienced any slowdowns or failures. The drive runs cool and silent, and it’s clearly built to last. I haven’t even had to think about it since installation—which is the best kind of tech experience. If you’re looking for a dependable, high-performance SATA SSD, I highly recommend this one. It’s been rock-solid for me even under heavy and near-constant use.

Please note: I only gave this drive 4 stars for capacity because my other drives range from 3TB to 8TB making this one seem "tiny" by comparison. (That isn't fair, but if a significantly larger SSD were available [8TB or larger] I would give serious consideration to buying one. Hence the rating is relative. Yes, there are some 4TB's available but that's too small for what I'm planning. Sorry WD.) This is ONLY a preliminary review - I've been using this drive for only a few days and here are my initial points of note. Now about a year ago I tried replacing the drive containing the root file systim (/ in case you aren't familiar with Linux or Unix) with another, smaller solid state drive, and that was a disaster (the system could not see the drive no matter what I did). i actually tried 2 of them and had the same, useless results with both, so I gave up. However, I decided to give it another try and this time it worked perfectly. Now my "normal" root file system for this system is on an 8TB drive, but even though it's very fast, sometimes the work load on this machine gets fairly high, does tons of disk I/O, slowing down the entire system (it isn't the CPU - that's an "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz" which which runs like lightning on its MSI X99A MB). So I decided to build a new "root drive" containing only /, /tmp, var, swap, the BIOS boot partition, and the "EFI System Partition." I am using the machine primarily for SW development at this point, but initially it was intended to the the front end of a system monitoring a ridiculously-large network containing well over 2 billion devices (yes it's a major telecom/network carrier). So it has *extremely* fast communications conecivity/capabilities), and consequently it has all the horsepower I need for it's current uses. The last time I put this box together I installed from the "Server" live disk and then added everything else I needed (Gnome, KDE, development, etc. ad inifintum) later. This time I started with my preferred KDE desktop and went from there. The entire install of the KDE live system took (IIRC - I've lost my notes) about 20 minutes from begin to end, and after the install (and the post-initial-boot "finish the install") were finished, the machine rebooted almost faster than I can believe. Now a bit of an aside: During the normal boot process (think /etc/rc.d/rc.local), there are a lot of external checks which used to slow the boot time down to about 3.5 minutes. After swapping to this SSD drive, the boot time is under 45 seconds with the same rc.local contents. I can't comment on reliablity yet (it's far too soon), and I will be updating this review in a couple of months. That being said I have noticed one thing that gives me a laugh any time I see it. When I run the command "hddtemp" to check the temperatures of the various hd's on the system, when it gets to this line it prints out: "/dev/sdc: WDC WD4002FYYZ-01B7CB0: drive is sleeping" :-) Oddly enough although the drive is functioning, the system also reports that it's RPM is 0 and that the drive must be sleeping or off-line. Oh - there is one other thing worth mentioning. While HDDtemp can't measure it's temperature, I did put a contact thermometer on it and it measured it as 71.4 F, the chasis temperature. As I already said, as soon I have enough experience to write a logic/experience-based review - or of the drive goes belly-up - I'll write an update. In the mean time if you'running Linux/Unix and want to try one of these, I'd say go for it.

I was looking for a 1TB SSD to upgrade the storage in my computer. Background: I have a tower computer I built about 3 years ago, and at that time I used a 500GB SSD for the system drive, and two 1TB hard drives for pretty much everything that didn't have to be on the system drive. Since SSD prices have fallen so much, I decided to replace one of the 2 hard drives with an SSD and use the remaining HD mostly for less frequently used files. After reading a few professional reviews, I decided on the WD Blue, because it seemed to offer the best combination of adequate performance, reliability, and competitive price. I skipped on some cheaper options because of suspect reliability. I'm quite satisfied with this drive: the performance is very good, as promised. I haven't run into any problems with the drive, and my experience with WD & SanDisk storage products has been generally positive. Caveats: (1) Of course I can't predict how well it will do over the longer haul, that's where I relied on reviews and brand experience. (2) Yes, one can get more speed for more money, but for my normal use it wouldn't make any practical difference in overall performance. Note: If I were building a new computer today I'd use an M.2 SSD for the main drive. In fact that's what I did in the new computer I recently built for my son.

This drive utilizes eight SanDisk 15nm TLC NAND packages on one side of the printed circuit board. WD placed two LPDDR3 DRAM packages, which are used to cache the data map, adjacent to the Marvell 4-channel controller. SO IT DOES HAVE DRAM CACHE FOR DATA MAPPING. The boot up is lightening fast and i was blown away by the overall speed. I can say with confidence it almost doubled the performance of my laptop with conventional spinning hdd, which I replaced it with. I used to insist on Samsung SSD. I've been using Samsung's 830, 840 EVO, 850 PRO, 970 PRO, and PM981 products for so long besides the WD products. This is the first time high-capacity WD BLUE 3D SSD to use in my personel laptop. Great product When you generate terabytes of usage right after the installation, it's a good product that doesn't make any difference compared to what you've experienced so far. Super Easy to Install. Compliant with Windows 7 and up, as well as apple ios and linux. Very reliable, backed up with WD's superior 5 year warranty. reputable brand and solid performance for gaming. Value for money. Similarly, it's very responsive and instantaneous access to all files. The drive itself is performing great, and can't beat the space per dollar. The Western Digital Blue 3D 1TB offers excellent performance at a good price point. The drive is within a few performance points of the 850 EVO, but it sells at a much lower price. You won't be disappointed in this choice. MLC-Like performance Aggressive endurance rating Low price point Bundled software suite Cons: Some TLC consistency issues, rare.

This is the second SSD HD I've installed in recent months in our laptops. The other a Samsung 860 EVO. The reason for the HD swap is that the old HDD seemed to doing a lot of work that slowed the computers down, especially at startup. This one is a modestly priced HP that has a 7th Gen i5 and a basic 8gb ram. The result of the upgrade is that the computer runs at light speed for the basic tasks I use it for. Startup feels instantaneous as does the loading of any programs running on the machine. I'm not a gamer so I can't comment on that high level of function but for everything else it's a charm. Installation was fairly easy. WD has good online tools to clone the existing hard drive and also to manage the SSD. It's similar to the suite that Samsung offers. On this install, I had a brief problem when my computer wouldn't recognize the SSD attached through a USB 3 cable. The remedy was easily found with a Google search so I won't repeat it here. That added perhaps 5 minutes to the process. Conclusion - I'm happy with the product, support and most of all performance. There is a lot of info on line that explains the difference in performance and life span of various SSDs. I thought this one was in a sweet spot of quality and price. Admittedly that's a very non technical assessment.

An SSD is fantastic and I hope I never own a standard HDD ever again. This drive, along with the proper cable acquired separately, allowed for a seamless transition from a 500 GB drive it replaced. It was very fast and never failed or even had and issues.

Ho atteso l'uscita di questa nuova versione degli SSD di Western Digital, versione 3D NAND, un pelino più veloce della generazione precedente (e naturalmente anche un pelino più costosa) per dare nuova vita al mio Mac mini late 2014. Computer che era diventato mostruosamente lento e non riuscivo a spiegarmi il motivo, un processore i5 da 2,6 GHz supportato da 8GB di Ram non può metterci quasi 2 minuti ad avviarsi e 40 minuti per fare un editing di un video di una decina di minuti, in fin dei conti lo utilizzo prevalentemente per questo. Quindi soluzione: sostituire il Fusion Drive da 1TB con questo WD SSD 3D NAND. Risultato: guardate il video per credere... una manciata di secondi per l'avvio. Tutte le operazioni di utilizzo quotidiano (e non) si sono velocizzate, il PC e' tornato come nuovo. E' non e' tutto merito della "formattazione" e "re-installazione" del sistema operativo, in quanto ho ripristinato il back-up effettuato con Time Machine. La spesa per passare da un classico HDD meccanico (od ibrido, nel caso del Fusion Drive) e' quasi pari al doppio ma, credetemi, ne vale la pena e benedirete tutti i soldi spesi. Capacita' che arrivano fino a 2TB e velocità di trasferimento di 560MB/s in lettura e di 530MB/s in scrittura, mettiamoci poi i 5 anni di garanzia e la completa silenziosita', vista l'assenza di parti meccaniche in movimento, fanno di questo SSD di Western Digital un vero e proprio "Must Buy". Ultra-stra-consigliato!

Bought it a long ago and it's still works well. It was around $100 at the time. Wish it would not more expensive but...

I purchased this SSD hard drive, and I have been incredibly impressed with its performance. This hard drive has exceeded my expectations in terms of speed, reliability, and overall quality. First and foremost, the SSD hard drive has dramatically improved the speed of my computer. Starting up the PC and opening applications takes a fraction of the time it used to with my old hard drive. The read and write speeds are incredibly fast, and I have noticed a significant improvement in the speed of my day-to-day work. Additionally, the SSD hard drive is incredibly reliable. It's built to last, and I haven't had any issues with data loss or corruption. This reliability is crucial for me as I store important files on my hard drive, and I can't afford to lose them due to a hard drive malfunction. The overall quality of the SSD hard drive is also impressive. It's solidly built, and the design is sleek and modern. It looks fantastic in my setup, and the compact size means that it doesn't take up much space on my desk. Finally, I want to mention how easy it was to install. It was a straightforward process, and I had it up and running in no time. The user-friendly installation software made the process even simpler. Overall, I would highly recommend this SSD hard drive to anyone looking to improve the performance and reliability of their computer. Its impressive speed, reliability, and overall quality make it an excellent choice for anyone looking for a high-performance hard drive that will stand the test of time.

Pedido veio antes do prazo final, bem embalado, fácil de instalar, loga confiável. Já instalei e já estou usando, computador é quase outro. Recomendo.

Very happy with the performance. I purchased this for my xbox One and the difference could be seen instantly when recovering OS on this new drive for the XBox One. It was so fast that I didn't even get a chance to read all the content on screen. Finished the entire process in seconds. Game loding times have almost disappeared...my old Xbox one now again feels like a next gen console with such speed.