Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A

29 May 2023: A review for two purchased: Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5/7mm. Ive had them a couple of months. No problems. Got them to replace two Samsung 870EVOs that died in a little less than 2 years. Samsung has some real problems and it took over 3 months to get replacements under warranty from Samsung. Right after they failed, I switched to these Western Digitals because I have used WD drives since 1994 and in my little life in my little home WD drives have been stellar performers. I have to say that all my past experience with WD has been with spinning platters. I hope these solid state drives are also reliable. Breakneck speeds dont impress me much. I just love good performance for a long, long time. So...the RED line from WD is supposed to be exactly that--constant running over the long haul in devices. Yep. I hope that is true. WD, do it to me again. I need you.

Bough this to replace a Seagate SSD that failed after 14 days. Performance is great lets see how long it last.

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Answering the unanswered as there are so many forums where this question remains open. I can confirm that the WD RED SSD NAS 1TB (using a 2.5 to 3.5 cheapo chunky-style adapter) totally works in both the MyCloud EX2 and MyCloud EX2 Ultra dual-bay NAS devices. I tried JBOD, Spanning, RAID0, RAID1 and all are functioning as expected depending on your configuration choice. For my final configuration, I am personally using two WD RED SSD NAS 1TB in RAID0 for added performance and then use rotating USB HDD backups for any potential failure/recoveries that might happen. As an aside, I experimented with other brands of SSD without success. If you really want SSDs in your MyCloud EX2 or EX2 Ultra, then Id recommend you get the official WD RED SSD NAS drives as they are the only SSDs I personally found to work.

I bought this to replace a Samsung 840 Pro as a cache drive in my FreeNAS build. So far everything is running as smooth as it did before. The temperature of the drive is a little warmer than the old drive. At idle, the old drive sat around 1°C over ambient, this one sits around 5°C over ambient.

Bought a pair, installed on QNAP TVS-473, and Composition mirror, RAID 1 onboard sata ports. Stable operation for 6 months.

Intended for RAID, not for use as single.

Product made my slow desktop lightning fast.

Gran producto de calidad increíble y al mejor precio

I run Unraid Server with a single cache driver. My old 240GB SSD was not cutting it anymore and this 500GB NAS SSD fits the bill. I run my Docker images off the cache SSD and the server is on 24/7, so there is a decent amount of write/read activity on the cache SSD. Based on WDs claims and some real world reviews, this SSD should hold up in to my use case.