WD Blue Solid State Drive

A lot smaller than I thought but it was a pain to install because it kept on popping up I had to hold it down and I knew that big data screwdriver to get to screw into the Hall wasnt awful but it was still difficult it continues to work this day at maximum performance so far not letting me down

One of the best replacement hard drives. The solid state 1Terrabyte is a huge storage monster, and greatly improves the speed of your computer. Adding this has given my seven year old laptop a new life.

I have a nice all-in-one 24-inch family PC. However, it has been struggling because of a poor spinning disk hard drive. I cloned the hard drive to the SSD and replaced it without a hitch. The PC is probably 10 to 20 times faster, especially from boot to doing something productive. Used to be on a restart it would take roughly 5 minutes before I could do something as simple as open a browser window. Now it is a 10-second restart, and I am immediately able to launch Chrome, and it opens fast! I do not have any comments on long term durability, but out-of-the-box it is fantastic!

Now, I cant actually say much as to how it fairs against other SSDs as this is the first Ive ever used. Howerver, after 5 years of putting off upgrading my main gaming system to an SSD, I am NOT disappointed. Boot times improved 70%, framefrates increased 5-10% depending on the game and are also MUCH more stable. Load times are incredible, and its really light. Do some research, buy the right SSD for you, but this one is worth the purchase if you decide. WD has been my go-to company for years on HDDs, and their SSDs do not disappoint.

Using this as a boot drive for a new Ryzen build. MB read it first try, loaded windows 10 on it and away I went. From power button to having comodo open to its homepage is just under 20 seconds. I think I can cut that down as well since I am only running 8gb of ddr4-2400 and Ive heard that my MB runs a memory test every boot up that can be disabled. Bought many WD products in the past and trust them with my data storage needs. This is cheaper than the Samsung ones out there but just as fast. Fast enough for gaming or whatever your needs are.

Bought this as a boot drive for my OS because my computer was experiencing micro-stuttering and very slow start-up times (symptoms of a failing hard-drive). I purchased a separate SSHD for the rest of my files and programs. My computer starts up in seconds now, and the applications that I saved onto it besides the OS (such as Skype) open instantly. Files transfer ridiculously fast compared to my old hard drive as well. Needless to say this SSD fixed the issues I was having. I will update this review if the drive fails, but so far its performing really well!

Putting this WD SSD in my wifes 1 year old i7 laptop finally woke that thing right up. Before that, she pretty much refused to even use it, much preferring my 6 yr old i5 laptop, with its retro-fitted Samsung SSD, since that old thing was vastly outperforming her new one! Now I finally have my old laptop back! The cloning software, from WDs websight worked perfectly to copy her original HD & OS over to the new SSD, along with the use of a portable SATA HD enclosure that I already had on hand. Those inexpensive enclosures are really worth buying, anytime you upgrade to an SSD, since you can then use your original drive as a removable drive or for an OS & file back up.

For $89 it is an amazing upgrade to my 4 year old laptop. Between the ssd and eliminating bloatware boot time is about 10 seconds. My HP Pavilion G7s hdd crapped out and I needed a quick replacement so I ordered a new Dell Inspiron to replace it. I was searching for a cheap hdd replacement just to see if I could fix the old laptop and came across this ssd for $89. Expecting the install of the ssd and windows to be a big deal I set it aside until I had a full day to commit to the install. I had the drive mounted in less than 5 minutes and following instruction found on the internet I was able to reinstall Windows 10 very easily. Probably less than 30 minutes actually doing and maybe an hour or so downloading or installing. I cant say exactly how much time downloading or installing actually took because I got busy with other things while downloading and installing. I must comment that Microsoft did a great job making a clean reinstall really easy and free. Only down side is I prefer the old laptop now because with the ssd it is faster than the Inspiron... so the Inspiron was a waste of money since I only use it for backup on its 1.5 TB hdd at this point. I like the led display on the Inspiron better than the Pavilion so maybe when they get cheap enough Ill get a 1 TB ssd and try cloning the hdd in the Dell.

This drive saved my Lenovo Q150 from the scrap heap. I was looking for a solution for a tiny home theater computer and had this old computer stuck in a drawer because it was so slow. I tried upgrading the RAM but that was only marginal improvement. When I cloned this drive from the original 5400 rpm Western Digital Blue in the Q150 and installed it, it breathed new life into little PC. It is now quick and responsive and allows me to stream blu-ray quality movies from my NAS. Is this the fastest out there? No, but you will definitely see a difference from any spinning drive.

I bought this SSD in April 2017 and in January 2018, 9 months later, the drive started to fail and it would refuse to boot up on any inserted computer. I called an RMA and they processed the RMA within 2 days and I received the replacement a week later. However, the SSD that they sent me was not functional. So I called again this time support was worse. I called them on a weekend and they said that the SSD department was closed so I called back on Monday and they kept transferring me until eventually they told me that they would call me back within 2 hours. About 3 hours later I call them back because they never called and they put me on hold for 30 minutes until they found someone from the SSD department. The support is sent overseas so unfortunately its very difficult to understand their accent. I try my best but they get frustrated because I keep asking them to repeat some things that I didnt quite understand. I decided to purchase a Samsung EVO SSD because Ive been without a functional drive for more than a month and the Samsung SSD booted up fine without issues. Im sitting here hours later waiting for them to send me an email. Never again WD, Never again.