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

bought two of these for a cache drive on my NAS. fairly simple installation.

WD, really? This is advertised as a WD Red drive for NAS! Try putting this in a WD MY Cloud EX2 Ultra. The drives work, but because the S.M.A.R.T. doesn’t see a temperature reading, I get the flashing red light and an alert every 10 minutes telling me the system is “under temperature” even though there is NO temperature reading. And you can’t disable individual alerts, it’s either shut off all critical alerts or leave them all on. You would think that since these are both WD NAS products that the firmware would be designed to ignore the absence of certain SM.A.R.T. readings since it is an SSD. So buyer beware, the drive will work if you install it, but be ready for many useless annoying warnings.

Bought this to add storage to an M1 Mac Mini. So far its reliable and performing well. Files are always accessible right away with no lag or delay. Only had it a few months, so Ill see how it goes and update the review if things change.

I bought these drive for my Synology NAS and these drives are compatible with Synology. Easy to install and always preferred WD over the other brands.

Great drives, I paired them as raid 0 as my secondary drive for my desktop

Excelente producto muy rápido buena calidad y capacidad de almacenamiento

good

Im using a number of WD Red SA500 4TB NAS drives in a ZFS pool consisting of 6 mirrored vdevs. Overall pool performance is great, though average single disk write speed observed during two resilvering operations is only around 200 MB/s. (Ive never seen it go above 380 MB/s.) Its not clear to me whether thats the sustained write speed of this drive or if theres a bottleneck (or deliberate throttling) elsewhere. As mentioned in the headline, its still early days - the pool has only been in operation for a few months. Within the last few days ZFS started showing checksum errors for one of the Samsung EVO 860s that are also in the pool. I replaced it with an SA500. Ill try to remember to update this review over time to note how the SA500s are faring. Update - 2020-09-17: I now have eight of these SSDs. No problems so far. Update - 2021-12-13: In May, 2021, my ZFS pool with eight of these drives (plus eight Samsung drives) faulted one of the SA500 SSDs due to write errors. I replaced it with another SA500. Earlier, back in July of 2020, one of the Samsung drives failed too; I replaced it with a SA500 (as it was cheaper at the time). So far, in that pool, Ive had two drive failures; one 4TB Samsung 860 EVO and one 4TB WD SA500. Im still running the pool with eight Samsung drives and eight WD drives, with no real preference aside from whichever is least expensive when I need a new one.

Running this as a stand alone share in my QNAP NAS for my music library. No issues what do ever.

Worked as advertise still working