Western Digital 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD – SATA III 6 Gb/s
Fast and reliable, wd always had a good reputation and looking at the mtbf number of 1. 75 million hours, this will out last me. First i downloaded the acronis clone disk program from wd website, but i had an older version of acronis which had to be uninstalled. After doing that i found that my windows 7 backup was corrupted. Strike one against acronis, i had to do a system restore to get back my windows backup. Acronis have a clean up program that suppose to properly uninstall, but strike two, it did not work. After this i would never install acronis again. I downloaded macrium reflect 7 free edition and it worked perfectly. I suggest to use this program rather than acronis. After cloning the ssd it worked perfectly.
Product is new and is working fine. But wd fails to deliver what is promised to buyer. This product comes with a claim that there is a free software to clone existing hdd to this ssd. Name of that is: ‘acronis true image wd edition’. You will have to download from wd support site. However the software is age old, it does not work. I spent hours trying thsi stupid thing. It stops upfront saying at least one of the drives must be wd. Probably it cannot recognize it. I had an old wd hdd in an usb enclosure. I just connected it just to make this software work. But it works and software moves on to next step. Cloning is all you can do with this version and it does not do it either. I went thru various screens where it reads the partitions and calculates something at every step. It takes for ever to do that too.
I got this ssd hd to replace and improve my daughters hp pavilion laptop (the original hd was a segate 5400rpm 500gb sata ii traditional laptop hd) the performance issues that this laptop had been having which was mainly due to the growing resource demands over the years from the newer windows operating systems (going from windows 7 to windows 10) and the newer requirements from the current software as well. Needless to say very infuriating for someone who is trying to get her school work done. Pros: nothing but praisecons: absolutely nonerecommended additional software and tools to perform the hard drive upgrade with:- (needed, unless your reloading the os from scratch) use macrium reflect 7 free edition (just do a google search to find) to clone your old hard drive to the new one. It’s an easy download that will install into your existing hard drive to make an exact clone to your new one. Best part the free edition does not cost a dime. – (needed, unless your cloning a desktop then optional) use this usb to sata drive connection cable sabrent usb 3. 5-inch sata hard drive adapter [optimized for ssd, support uasp sata iii (ec-sshd) for only $10 to clone the new drive with. Of course if it is for a desktop this will not be needed but for 95% of the laptops out there it’s a must- (optional, if you already have a similar tool set) if your changing the hard drive out of these newer laptops (within the last 4 years) i would buy this tool kit soucolor 78 in 1 precision screwdriver set, magnetic driver kit, repair tool kits with portable case for ipad, iphone, tablets, laptops, pc, smartphones, watches, electronics disassembly to access the hard drive, especially for those needing a plastic pry tool, can’t go wrong for $20. Once i installed the new ssd the difference was literally night and day, the boot up from bios to operating system (windows 10) was almost literally instantaneous (i would say give or take 5 to 10 seconds), the response time on applications and any action in general was also instantaneous. ]
After multi issues with seagate drives in the past i have gone exclusively wd with no issues ever since. This 2 tb ssd has made a huge difference in the performance of my systems. I have a high-end work station with everything from standard office software to the adobe video editing capability. An average full boot up time would be 10-12 minutes to load everything including all the cloud services. With the ssd it is under 2 minutes. Everything loads amazingly fast and most of the programs perform so much better. I cloned my boot up drive using macrium software, then just swapped them out. Hands on time less than 5 minutes but it did take a while to clone the 2 tb drive. I am amazingly satisfied with this purchase, so i bought a second on and did the same exact thing with my laptop.
Bought 6 of these to upgrade old office pcs and milk another year or so out of them. They are dell win 7 machines, and now boot in 15-20 seconds vs 2-3 min before. Everything launches quicker, too, and the ssds give the impression of a much faster computer without having a faster cpu or memory. Won’t necessarily speed up already running programs. But, for these old ones that only have 4 gb ram, it should also speed up shuffling data in ram to the pagefile virtual ram. I used macrium reflect to clone each of the drives, using a usb3 external hard drive case made for quick swapping of drives, in case anybody cares.
Capacity:500GB | Pattern Name:SSD The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD utilizes 3D NAND technology for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. Featuring an active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSDs, you’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop, while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. Combined with the free, downloadable WD SSD Dashboard software and a 5-year limited warranty, you can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. |As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. | Active power draws are up to 25% lower during sequential reads than previous generations of WD Blue SSD at the 500GB capacity point. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.
From the manufacturer
WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD
Enhanced reliability
You’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. You can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD.
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WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD
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WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD |
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Ideal For
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PC enthusiasts, creative pros | Creative pros, media | Gamers, hardware enthusiasts | Gamers, hardware enthusiasts |
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Form Factor
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SATA 2.5”/7mm & M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
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Interface
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SATA III 6 Gb/s | PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 2 lanes | PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes | PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes |
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Sequential Read Speed
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up to 560 MB/s | up to 2,400 MB/s | up to 3,470 MB/s | up to 3,470 MB/s |
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Sequential Write Speed
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up to 530 MB/s | up to 1,950 MB/s | up to 3,000 MB/s | up to 3,000 MB/s |
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TBW
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up to 600TBW (4TB) | up to 600TBW | up to 600TBW | up to 600TBW |
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Highest Capacity Available
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4TB | 1TB | 2TB | 2TB |
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My Passport Go
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Features and Spesification
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by entering your model number. - Sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/seconds; As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second
- An industry leading 1.75M hrs mean time to failure (MTTF) and up to 500 TBs written (TBW) for enhanced reliability; MTTF based on internal testing using Telcordia stress part testing; TBW calculated using Jedec client workload (JESD219)
- WD F.I.T. Lab certification for compatibility with a wide range of computers
- 5 year manufacturer’s limited warranty
- Free downloadable software to monitor the status of your drive and clone a drive, or backup your data
- An active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSD
Product Info
Product description
The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD utilizes 3D NAND technology for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. Featuring an active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSDs, you’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop, while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. Combined with the free, downloadable WD SSD Dashboard software and a 5-year limited warranty, you can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. |As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. | Active power draws are up to 25% lower during sequential reads than previous generations of WD Blue SSD at the 500GB capacity point. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.
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