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

I have to buy another drive. Its kept failing and freezing my server. Had to buy a new one

I decided to let my son have this one, as he is always looking for faster times on his drive especially for gaming. So, here is his review: Before I begin, I need to clarify that this product is not for personal desktops. It is for NAS, aka Network Array Storage. Can you use it on a desktop? Sure, but that’s the equivalent of using a bugatti for your work commute, overkill. It’s an ssd used for servers, so it is made to retain it’s read/write speed under high loads. Does the average person need this sort of power? No. But it’s definitely better than any normal SSD, and storage is storage, so I used it anyway on my desktop. And let me tell you, it’s good. Pros: It’s an SSD (I won’t explain in full detail because anyone considering a NAS ssd should already have a basic understanding of how SSDs are superior to hard drives, but here’s my comparison: Hard drive = 2001 honda civic SSD = 2020 tesla roadster (SSDs are fast as hell) It can perform without throttling. While under high loads, it doesn’t throttle. A problem with normal SSDs (and any hard drive because hard drives are garbage) is that at maximum performance, they slow down. This SSD? It doesn’t slow down. It’s good. It’s overkill, it’s just really damn good, I don’t have a server to test the full potential but from a gaming standpoint it’s good. Price: Yes it’s at a higher price point than normal SSDs, but it’s not intended for desktop computers: it’s like using a bugatti for your work commute, it’s nice but definitely overkill, but still nice Fast, 434 megabytes per second fast. Cons: None It’s good. It’s great! It’s overkill for desktop use but nobody is going to stop me. It’s beefy, it’ll be good for NAS/server setups, it doesn’t throttle, it’s good. But if you need an SSD for gaming, get a WD blue, this is totally overkill, it’s too good and no gamer can use it to its full potential.

Works great

I finally upgraded my Raspberry Pis external drive to an SSD. The speed and the extra capacity on this thing are great, but they come with a price... 1.6A power draw! What??? The old spinning drive it replaced required 0.6A. The Raspberry Pi 4 can supply 1.2A. I had to purchase an externally powered SATA-to-USB3 adapter to get it to work with the Pi. Other than that debacle, its a nice upgrade in storage.

Super fast we are not using it for gaming. We are a large format printing company that handles huge files and shouldve bought them before.

I have 2 of these in a RAID1 equivalent in ZFS running in a QNAP TVS-872XT. One was dropping out about once a week after 7 months of use. Luckily I could pull it, wait a few minutes, and put it back in to rebuild in a few seconds (the beauty of ZFS). Because WD wants to charge money for advanced RMA, I bought a new replacement and put it in (a big mistake in hindsight). A couple weeks later the other drive starts acting up. It had not dropped out of the RAID until today, 9 months old. What good is a 5 year warranty on a NAS specific disk if I have to keep replacing it. QuTS reports that it has 95% life left. Yeah, right. So one is out for RMA, one is 2 weeks old working, and the other will be RMAd as soon as the first replacement arrives. Good thing Ill have a spare on the shelf at all times.

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.

Plug and play. Using in a robust custom built computer running just Windows 10. Hosting movies to run on Plex server and streaming has been fast and flawless.

I tested it a number of different ways, and it was at about 2/3rds of the speed expected.

This drive died just a few months after I installed it. Fortunately, I kept a second boot drive so it was relatively easy to recover, but the sudden, quick collapse of this drive renders it, in my estimation, useless.