WD_Black SN750 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD - Gen3 PCIe, M.2 2280, 3D NAND - WDS100T3X0C
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This is my first PCIE drive (I've had raid spinning media, SSD's and raid SSD's in the past and this blows all of them out of the water. No more waiting minutes for updates or loading of games. Reduce that to seconds.If you are lucky enough to own a newer AM4 processor and motherboard that supports the PCIE4.0 speeds, strongly recommend considering the SN850 as an alternative to this drive. You will appreciate the nearly 2x speed boost. Now if they could just get NAND density up to a point where they could replace spinning media, everything would be faster!Cheers and happy "storing/gaming/loading/editing". :)
Don't buy the marketing hype. It's comical how ambiguous SSD ratings have become with their speed/price interpretations. I have owned a 970 EVO, 970 PRO and WD Black 250GB. While it may look faster on a benchmark, the user experience is roughly the same. Want to see a noticeable difference? Get an Intel Optane 905P if you can swing the price.
Enjoyed the quick load times for games, however I had one situation where the drive disappeared from my pc.. in a sense my motherboard could detect the ssd in the bios but not through windows 10. I suspect it was a Windows issue... even stranger, going into the bios and restarting it in default mode allowed the ssd to be visible again. Just glad it didn’t have the OS on it.
Western Digital 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0A
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After going through life with a 2011 Macbook Pro 13.3" model a1278 that had really slowed down over the years, I finally pulled the trigger on a SSD. After installing this one: WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG? For the record I upgraded my RAM from 4 to 8 GB at the same time.Before I installed this SSD it took my Pro almost 22 seconds to open Powerpoint, not to mention things just seemed to run as glacier speed. Now? Woo baby, I'm opening PowerPoint in 5 seconds, and switching through apps in speeds that make me feel like I just bought a brand new 2018 MacBook Pro. I was considering it too, before remembering I could just upgrade my RAM and hard drive for 1/12 of the price, not to mention having better RAM and hard drive specs than what is currently being offered in entry level Pros! The only factor that had kept me from pulling the trigger all this time was the fact that I was a bit nervous about doing the replacements myself. Easy as ever! One of my best decisions I've made lately. This upcoming semester I won't be lagging behind in lectures because my laptop can't open up Word and PowerPoint fast enough!
Warranty Info is misleading!On the package and in the manual came with the package, it says the warranty is three years. I bought it because of the five year warranty. Thus, I registered the drive on the web site and it indicates that the warranty is indeed five years.I downloaded the Acronis True Image WD edition from wpc web site and it worked just fine. I have Windows 7 and everything went smoothly. My original drive is 1 TBytes and had a lot of empty spaces. I resized it to less than 500GB from Microsoft Disk Management before running Acronis True Image. Some buyers reported problems using Acronis for Windows 10 though.
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. Within reason. 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.
Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C
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The WD Blue SN550 is an entry-level NVMe SSD that offers a lot of performance and reliability at a value price point. I purchased the 1TB model to install as a second drive inside a Lenovo P1 Gen 2 mobile workstation (which shares the same chassis with the X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 2), and what caught my eye about this particular NVMe drive was that it came from a reputable manufacturer, it offered a lot of bang for buck (1TB for $100 isn't bad as of Jan 2020), the 5-year warranty was above average for the class, and the 75mW average active power was low enough that I wasn't concerned about thermal issues or dramatically reduced battery life. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the drive and I haven't had any issues with it.Installation into my Lenovo P1 Gen 2 was really straight forward. This particular machine has 2x NVMe drive slots with PCIe Gen 3 x4 support, and to get to the drive slots, all you need to do is remove the screws on the bottom cover. Lenovo was nice enough to include the mounting screw and thermal tape for a second drive even though I only optioned my machine with a single drive. I was able to install the drive in less than 5 minutes, and Windows 10 automatically detected my new WD Blue SN550 without any drama. All I had to do to finish the installation process was to open disk management to initialize and format the drive.I typically use my laptop for office work, photo editing and graphics, and I also play a few games on the side. Benchmarks show that the WD Blue SN550 is actually a bit slower than the 512GB Samsung PM981 that came with my machine, but in terms of how I use my machine, there doesn't seem to be a meaningful performance difference. Overall, I think the WD Blue SN550 delivers as a low power, reliable, and value-oriented storage solution.
Three stars because I know WD is good, but after an ordering mishap with a hub, I had to double-check the fit. This is M key, which my hub won’t accept. This information should be put up-front on m.2 drives. It’s like selling a motherboard and not clearly stating what its socket is. I actually had to look up the differences and count the pins myself, since the key is either hard to find or not present in the included text or the page listing.
The 2mm screw for mounting m.2 SSDs is not terribly common, and to not include one is a massive oversight in my opinion. I don't care if it's standard to not include, I don't care if other companies don't - it's dumb. Put one in there, so we don't have to drive to some computer repair store looking for one. Other than this, the hard drive is fine. Some might say marking down 2 stars for this is harsh, but I disagree; it's 2020 and companies should know better.
Western Digital 1TB WD Green Internal PC SSD Solid State Drive - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 550 MB/s - WDS100T2G0A
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I bought the Western Digital Green internal 1 TB version to replace a failing hard drive in my main home PC and installed it on September 4, 2020. The EZ-Gig software package and cable were used to clone everything from the drive I was replacing, which took just a few minutes over an hour. I then removed the old hard drive, mounted the WD Green in a Sabrent 2.5" SSD and SATA Hard Drive to Desktop 3.5" Bay Bracket, slipped it into the space formerly occupied by the old hard drive, screwed that down and was done and rebooting in about 15-20 minutes.I was almost blown away by how fast the computer booted up with the SSD in place, and virtually every transaction that involves reading from or writing to the hard drive is noticeably faster than what I had grown accustomed to. All in all, my initial reaction is that making this replacement was a smart move.
I refurbished a laptop for my dad for Christmas, I used this drive to replace the moving parts drive that was in the laptop before. It lightened the laptop, performed much faster, and the laptop now retains batter life much longer. So far it is working as expected. The WD tools that one can download free for the drives also helped make for a smooth transition with porting Windows 10 to the new drive.
Worked for what I needed
Western Digital 2TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS200T1R0A
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Please be aware that the Western Digital SA500 Red SSD is one of the very few non Enterprise SSDs that supports DRAT and HZAT that will allow trim to work properly behind a LSI SAS HBA. Search forID: 1211161496937 or "TRIM support for LSI HBAs and RAID controllers" in the Broadcom knowledge base.Purchased six 2TB 2.5" drives and put them in a ZFS RAIDZ2 pool in a Supermicro chassis that supports 36 SAS/SATA drives behind a LSI 9300-8i SAS HBA controller. System was running Devuan (Debian) with kernel 4.9. Experienced issues with the drives being kicked out on a nightly basis. Upgraded the LSI 9300-8i controller to the latest BIOS and firmware. Drives where a lot more stable but they would still occasionally be kicked out once a week. Upgraded Devuan to the latest version which runs kernel 4.19 and still experienced the same issues. Only by running the back ported 5.4 kernel did problems go away and system has been stable for the last month.Performance is excellent and what you would expect a six drive RAIDZ2 (RAID6) with 32GB of ARC.. Overall I'm happy, but it was a trying time getting to this point.Western Digital support was fairly poor. Essentially they said to contact the controller vendor to see if they can fix the problem. Broadcom (they bought LSI) was helpful but they did not provide the solution to the problem.
They were an easy replacement for my 4TB Seagate QNAP NAS drives. I've had 4 of these SSD's running in my TVS-471 for 3 months and they are fast, reliable and silent! I know they are expensive compared with Hard Disks, but the additional speed and silent operation makes them worth it. Using MKV for movie transfers to my NAS are much faster and Plex is less likely to transcode to a lower resolution. 4K movies are delivered cleanly to my various Samsung and LG big screens. I also upgraded my QNAP from an i5 to an i7 and added two M.2 1Tb drives for caching.
Very happy so far! Stoked WD finally released a nas rated ssd. I have it running in a cache pool on my Unraid server. Of course, only time will tell but for now it is performing admirably.
Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0B
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It works as expected. It would be nice if WD had cloning or migration software available, since other mfr;s do.
We compared this to the Crucial 1TB SSD and found that its match up was better with the Crucial MX500 SSD we also installed in a new HP 17.3 laptop. Combined 32gb of Crucial Memory as well gave us the connection we needed for fast 4-8K News footage for FOX,CNN,MSNBC,ABC,CBS,NBC media outlets....Our production time has been cut by 85% and that counts when you have to get the feed out.... Yesterday?...You get our drift....We did compare this SSD to Crucial's SSD in the M.2. format and found it to be a better, faster drive for 4-8K film and news production :)
Does the job as expected
Western Digital WDS120G2G0B WD Green 120 GB Internal Solid State Drive - SATA - M.2 2280, 120GB
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if your motherboard has the M.2 connector on it, this WD SSD offers a great way to free up a drive slot and provide excellent performance ... my ASUS Prime B350-M has one, but I had overlooked it when I put together my system last year, when I installed a 2.5" 120 Gb SSD in one of the slots as my Windows/programs drive, with other drives for files and media ... I used the free EaseUS Partition program (which - to EaseUS' credit - I've never had any kind of problem with over the 4-5 years I've used it) to clone the existing C: drive, a process which took around 20 minutes, after which the previous C: drive gets disconnected, the system rebooted and the new M.2 mobo slot SSD boots up without any problems ... I'm not sure if the on-board M.2 controller gives better performance than the SATA slots, but I'm happy with its operation after a problem-free install
Good value for the money
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Western Digital WDBNCE5000PNC 2.5" 500GB Internal SSD Solid State Drive, Blue
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I like this as a concept. You slot into your PC, and you've got an extra 1TB of high-speed NVMe storage for games. Except that there are some caveats with this thing, and they sort of mess with the experience.First, you need their software running in the background for the drives to be recognized. On my gaming rig it simply would not acknowledge the storage space if the software wasn't present. My BIOS saw it, but Windows wasn't willing to play nice without that software.Second, sometimes it would just not show up after a reboot. I'd have to reboot again to get it to appear. I was never able to track down that issue.In the end, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle and removed the two NVMe drives from the card (very easy to do), and installed them directly into other enclosures. Now they work flawlessly, though I no longer have a 1TB RAID, but two separate 500 GB drives instead.I appreciate what they were trying to do here, but at least in my case the card itself wasn't reliable. The drives are fantastic, which is why I'm giving it four stars instead of three, but the PCI card was sadly not up to the task of being reliable and as functional as I'd like. Your mileage may vary. I suspect it comes down to which BIOS and which motherboard you have, but it's obviously a gamble to see if you get reliable performance or if you get the spotty "sometimes there, sometimes not" performance I got from the card.So... Four stars for the really nice NVMe drives, but the card itself gets three stars for being OK, but not reliable.
I added this in as an additional gaming drive, and the plug and play aspect was extremely simplistic.
I am using this in my Asus Rampage IV Extreme x79 motherboard as a game drive. I have noticed a perceivable difference when loading into games. It seems to run hot in my system, although that may be my fault since I have installed it in pci slot 3, between two 2080 Ti in SLI. I have a Noctua industrial 140mm fan ducted straight to the pci expansion, but this add in card cools down much slower than my graphics cards. It is normal for it to reach temps of 75° C while gaming or running benchmarks. The graphics cards cool relatively quickly while this add in card comes back to stasis ~ 68° C in about 10 mins. This places it outside its recommended operating temp, which strikes me as odd with so much airflow. My graphics cards will report temps below 50° within 1.5 minutes of max temps of 75°. I am still within my return period, so I'm not sure how I feel about checking out the internals of this drive to make sure the casing is in contact with the thermal transfer pads. It is as fast as they advertise.
Western Digital 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T2B0B
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I put one of these in my desktop two years ago and cloning went smoothly and it works great. Not so for my new laptop (Acer Aspire E5). In order to clone you have to take out your source drive and hook it into a USB port. That means you need another C drive to run the computer. Luckily I have a few drives laying around. You know, the way people do. It took me several hours of trying, but in the end I got it to start the clone. If you don't do it that way, you go from the last clone step directly to restart in an endless loop. And no indication that it won't work that way. The drive does not come with any instructions. Luckily Amazon has instructions you can download. Or you can find them on the WD website if you hunt long enough. I found the old work-around that is interrupt restart to change the boot sequence in the BIOS. Make sure you have a second computer to be able to do this so you can look up instructions. But once you get it working, it works great. My laptop is ultra fast.Later...... a few days later I bought a WD BLACK SN750 NVMe of 500G for higher speed (according to the specs). Cloning using various methods gave me a blue screen start-up failure. Using the recovery install method worked OK but then W10 settings will not let me install some software. I made six attempts in total. After several hours on the phone with Microsoft technical help we discovered that windows was running a one year old version (1803). We found the windows 10 Update Assistant and installed it and went to version 1903. I am thinking this may be part of the problem related to cloning. The brand new computer had the old W10. Doing regular updates does not solve this. I had the latest updates for version 1803.
UPDAT... I just bought 2 more... still very happy with these M.2 Drives. ONly difference now is that im buying bigger drives.I bought a similar SSD stick 2 months ago and loved it so much I told everyone how my pc now boots in barely 3 seconds. I decided to update my other main machine, the one I network at home. I bought a different ADATA stick and it's been issues. Runs hot, has errors, and over the past month or so, it's been slowing down. Doesn't really make sense but... that's how I perceived it. So, I got this stick which is slightly newer than the original WD stick and because this one has energy efficiencies that the other didn't. anyhow, I installed it, put original Hd in, cloned it to this new SSD stick, set the boot drive and viola! This machine boots in barely 3 seconds. I'm so happy I can't even describe it! I hope it lasts, it should. I also hoe it reduces energy consumption. It should. Very happy.
This SATA M.2 SSD would easily beat any mechanical HDD for use to install an Operating System, but I bought it for use as a faster storage option, opting for a different NMVe M.2 SSD for my Operating System. I installed this 2TB SSD in a external USB 3.1 case I bought separately so I can move large amounts of data between different computer, which is really fast when I have a USB 3.0 or 3.1 capable USB slot. If your planning on installing directly on a Motherboard with an M.2 slot, be sure the slot supports SATA M.2 SSDs, and not just NMVe M.2 SSDs like my Motherboard.
WD_BLACK 1TB SN850 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 7,000 MB/s - WDS100T1X0E
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WD Black SN850 500 GB... Well, i spent more $ to get this fast SSD. Its the same as the others just more expensive. I ran this on a new 11th gen intel 11400 cpu with a new Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite m/b Corsair 3200 ram, with all the drivers in win10. Temp was 102F to start and went as high as 127F after the 6th run, has m/b heatshield. Updated firmware Ver. 613000WD with WD dash and game mode on. Buy a 1TB SSD that is just as fast as this for the same $. Sorry WD.Edit - I take back what a I said earlier, My system fly's now. Everything from gaming to audio ripping seems to work like it's already loaded in RAM not from a HDD. USB 3.0 seem so fast that I have to check and make sure I hit the button. I've uploaded a new pic from 4-20. It's getting faster as i go on. I was so looking at the 7.000-5.000 mark that I didn't realize how fast this thing is. So, yes sorry WD, for my so-so review earlier and I take it all back except the ! gig part. I should have bought the 1 gig WD instead of the 500. But, I'll buy another one later. I'll update if something else happens with it. :) The newest speed test is the last one (which is speeding up) also my boot up time is about 5-7 sec after Bios screen.
Initially used an old ver of Chrystal Dk. Mk. and was getting rd : ~4000 wr : ~ 4000. Now w latest CDMark getting what everyone else, ~ 6500 read, 4400 writes.
50-100 for a heat sink. The price needs to change based on capacity?