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 bought two of these to hold the network-facing shared folders in my recently set up Synology NAS. I installed each as a basic drive, ext4 file system. The shared folders are backed up to much cheaper HDD storage with periodically scheduled tasks. The ext4 file system allows the drives to be removed and accessed on my RHEL system in an emergency. With the extreme endurance rating of these 2TB drives (1300 TBW), I expect not to think about them for a very long time.

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.

The WD produce good fair products, what Yoo get and what You pay, in my opinion, their products are overpriced, I was thinking to buy the 4TB but almost 500$ each I then switch to 2TB. In the NAS this two HD will store the most frequent used files. but when You dont want to compromise reliability, especially if You use for a NAS, the price became the last of the priority. Its too short time to comment about durability, they are guarantee 5 years of 24/7 working time. I shall be allowed to comment about it after three years (at list). But in matter of actual performance the two pair SSD are doing their job, not much eat, remain about 35°C in an enviroment of 25°C. eating less than conventional HD. For a laptop or desk top, to replace a traditional mechanical HD, if Your data is important, this is expensive but worth to have. If You are not in hurry, I suggest You to wait to see 4TB price drop significantly when theyll introduce the 8TB SSD type.

I always purchase these WD Red because of the speed and durability.

Cost a bit but it works

Great NAS SSDs which work perfectly in my Synology 1621xs+ NAS.

Was very easy to install and clone my old drive. Have had for about 1 month and no problems.

Buen producto y rendimiento

All good, no issues. Migrated my boot partition to it, and now my old PC just flies.

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