Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Western Digital 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019

This is the second SSD HD I've installed in recent months in our laptops. The other a Samsung 860 EVO.
The reason for the HD swap is that the old HDD seemed to doing a lot of work that slowed the computers down, especially at startup. This one is a modestly priced HP that has a 7th Gen i5 and a basic 8gb ram. The result of the upgrade is that the computer runs at light speed for the basic tasks I use it for. Startup feels instantaneous as does the loading of any programs running on the machine. I'm not a gamer so I can't comment on that high level of function but for everything else it's a charm.
Installation was fairly easy. WD has good online tools to clone the existing hard drive and also to manage the SSD. It's similar to the suite that Samsung offers. On this install, I had a brief problem when my computer wouldn't recognize the SSD attached through a USB 3 cable. The remedy was easily found with a Google search so I won't repeat it here. That added perhaps 5 minutes to the process.
Conclusion - I'm happy with the product, support and most of all performance.
There is a lot of info on line that explains the difference in performance and life span of various SSDs. I thought this one was in a sweet spot of quality and price. Admittedly that's a very non technical assessment.

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R. Precourt

Effortless upgrade that brought new life (and SPEED) to my computer

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021

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This was one of the best decisions I've made in a while. This drive was affordable and gives me plenty of space at 1TB, which was the same as my existing drive, which was a Seagate FireCuda hybrid drive. I went with hybrid several years ago because they were more affordable and offered more storage for the money, but honestly the hybrid drives do not perform anywhere close to an SSD, so I wish I had got that instead; if I had I wouldn't be having to upgrade again.

The upgrade process was effortless using the Acronis software that was provided free of charge. Note, you have to go to Western Digital's website to get it and there's noting in the included instructions that mention anything about it, so you have to know to look for it. They could have done much better with the included documentation. To find it, just click on 'Support', then follow the choices to find your particular product, then select 'Downloads' and the software is there.

Acronis cloned my existing drive to the new SSD, then it was just a quick swap of the drives and done. Computer is now lightening-fast. Since I was replacing a 3.5" desktop drive, I also bought the Fenlink 2.5" to 3.5" Internal SSD Hard Drive SATA Drive Converter, which is very high quality and available here on Amazon for around $12 at the time. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ELRRKW8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. So for about $120 I feel like I have a new computer and since it's fairly high-end, I feel that the upgrade was a better choice over buying a whole new system.

Spend the extra money and get an SSD from the start; you will not regret it.

I highly recommend this product as Western Digital has a solid record of producing quality products and I can only hope this one is no exception. It claims to have a 5-year warranty, so I will update this review if any problems arise. However, since SSD have no mechanical parts they typically outlast traditional hard drives.

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Exciter

Fit/Works Perfect in 7 Year-Old Dell Inspiron15R Laptop! Boots Up Super Fast & Is Very Snappy!

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021

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I bought this WD Blue 1TB SSD to replace the ancient slow running Samsung 1TB mechanical HD in my 2014 Dell Inspiron15R laptop, which literally took 10+ minutes to boot up and fully load the operating system. This new WD Blue 1TB SSD brought new life to my old machine. It boots up in <20 seconds, and is very snappy running programs. Read and write speeds were dramatically increased as well (e.g., it took 8 hours to create a system image of the old HD vs. 2 hours to image the new SSD). It was easy to physically install too (it was slightly thinner than my old HD, so I just put 2 tiny stick-on felt pads inside the HD bay for support, and it was good to go).

>>The installation procedure that I used below worked flawlessly for me (I did not use the Acronis cloning software because my laptop only has one internal HD bay and Acronis advised not to clone an existing system drive to an externally connected USB drive-bay because the cloned drive may fail to boot):

1. Created a system image of the original Samsung HD using the standard Windows 10 process in control panel (saved the system image to an external USB3 HD)
2. Created a system start-up/repair boot DVD when prompted to do so after the system image creation process successfully completed (my laptop has a DVD burner in it, but you can make one with a USB jump drive too)
3. Shut down the laptop and removed the battery
4. Removed the bottom cover on the laptop and replaced the old HD with the new WD Blue 1TB SSD
5. Reinstalled the battery and turned the laptop back on with the external USB3 HD connected
6. After turning laptop back on it asked for a start-up boot disc since the new SSD was blank and un-initialized
7. Inserted DVD and rebooted laptop to load the system start-up/repair program
8. Selected 'restore drive from system image' on the menu and it automatically searched and found the previously created system image located on the external USB3 HD
9. Started the restoration process, which took about an hour to finish
10. After restoration process successfully completed, I removed the system boot DVD and restarted the laptop (as instructed by Windows)
11. System booted up quickly with zero problems and everything was just like the original drive in every way, only much faster! I feared all sorts of drama upon start-up with the new SSD, but I was elated to see everything worked perfectly (all existing program product keys and iTunes account mapped over transparently)

As for long term reliability, I cannot say because it’s only been a few days since I installed it, but I’ve had good luck with WD products over the years (after successful SSD installation I went to WD's website and filled out the warranty registration online). The speed increase and low power consumption make this SSD an excellent upgrade from older slow HD’s. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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D. Chandler

Fast and cool for a 2012 Mac Mini which I use as a PLEX Media Server...

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020

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A must-have SSD for an older computer.

I finally got around to installing this WD SSD in my 2012 quad-core i7/16GB Mac Mini which is running Catalina and it works flawlessly. I had Catalina OS installed on a four-year-old Seagate 5400rpm hard-drive and that old drive was as slow as molasses. It wasn't so bad with Mojave but with Catalina, I kept getting beachballs on any operation that required disk reads and I did everything I could think of to speed it up but nothing worked. The Seagate showed no errors or anything, but it was just too slow at transferring data with Catalina. Using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on that old hard-drive, the needle barely moved (around 50MB/s) on reads and writes. Absolutely horrible.

I couldn't wait to install this SSD into the Mac Mini and it only took about half an hour (I also put in a new fan for good measure). I took my time to make sure everything was done right. Now the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test shows about 450MB/s for writes and 510MB/s for reads and no more beachballs. This SSD runs very cool and is quite snappy with anything requiring reads and writes. It's a terrific replacement drive. I had cloned my Seagate drive with Carbon Copy Cloner and then cloned it back to the SSD after I formatted the SSD using Apple Disk Utility's AFPS option. Everything went smooth as silk. Copying took a few hours because my backup drive was also a 5400rpm USB drive with about 500GB to move. I shouldn't have waited as long as I did as I bought the SSD a few weeks ago, but I was too lazy to make the swap. I highly recommend this SSD to put new life in an older Mac Mini. Catalina runs great on it. Only 2% - 4% CPU use on idle.

I just purchased a 2018 6-core i7 Mac Mini with 16GB and 1TB SSD, so I'm going to swap my 2012 Mac Mini out and use it for something else. It's still a great little computer after all these years and the SSD gave it new life. I don't know why Apple now sells any IMac with a spinning hard-drive. Those things are too slow.

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AusNoel

Fast reliable SSD Drive

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2023

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I purchased this to use out in the field as an external drive for my Ninja V. This drive is well made, sturdy, takes a beating and keep on going. If we are using it out in the field on location or in the studio space editing it doesn't miss a beat. I now have several of these drives I was so impressed. Well worth the money!

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yalch⭐

The Bang Bang for a little Buck!

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2020

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This drive utilizes eight SanDisk 15nm TLC NAND packages on one side of the printed circuit board. WD placed two LPDDR3 DRAM packages, which are used to cache the data map, adjacent to the Marvell 4-channel controller. SO IT DOES HAVE DRAM CACHE FOR DATA MAPPING.

The boot up is lightening fast and i was blown away by the overall speed. I can say with confidence it almost doubled the performance of my laptop with conventional spinning hdd, which I replaced it with.

I used to insist on Samsung SSD. I've been using Samsung's 830, 840 EVO, 850 PRO, 970 PRO, and PM981 products for so long besides the WD products. This is the first time high-capacity WD BLUE 3D SSD to use in my personel laptop. Great product When you generate terabytes of usage right after the installation, it's a good product that doesn't make any difference compared to what you've experienced so far.

Super Easy to Install.
Compliant with Windows 7 and up, as well as apple ios and linux.
Very reliable, backed up with WD's superior 5 year warranty.
reputable brand and solid performance for gaming.
Value for money.
Similarly, it's very responsive and instantaneous access to all files.
The drive itself is performing great, and can't beat the space per dollar.

The Western Digital Blue 3D 1TB offers excellent performance at a good price point. The drive is within a few performance points of the 850 EVO, but it sells at a much lower price. You won't be disappointed in this choice.

MLC-Like performance
Aggressive endurance rating
Low price point
Bundled software suite

Cons:
Some TLC consistency issues, rare.

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Jerbear

Reliable and fast

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023

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I use this drive as a backup drive. I perform backups several times a week so this drive has a large amount of data written to it every week. It has been flawless for over a year and is plenty fast for an internal backup drive. I don't even know it is there. I do check on it weekly and it just does its job quietly and efficiently.

I have used WD drives for years and the few times I had a problem Western Digital was there to assist. When I had a drive go bad and under warranty they sent a new drive over night with double the capacity to replace the defective drive. I only use WD on my computer builds. The support is excellent.

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Martin

Great drive for the price, free Acronis cloning software worked as well - read review on how

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2021

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I wanted to replace the old 1TB spindle drive in my Dell Inspiron laptop. Goal was to clone the drive. I attached the drive via USB (assume you have a special cable or enclosure) and I also installed the WD Dashboard (3.2.2.9) on the old drive. launching the Dashboard I could see the attached new SSD drive. I then tried to clone the drive. Go to "Tools" then to "Additional Software" then to Acronis. This is a free limited function cloning software that WD licensed. This is when things went a little sideways.

I could download the software but it wouldn't launch. Wouldn't recognize the WD SSD drive. Wait, the Dashboard sees it. I did a lot of tries, even created a partition on the SSD drive and mounted it. Still no. I contacted (emailed) WD and Acronis tech support. Contemplated purchasing other clone software or free Linux options.

Acronis support pointed me back to WD. WD did send me email with link to a download page. I went to specific link for this drive and bingo. This version of Acronis recognized the drive, not the one linked in the dashboard (they will probably fix this). Also had instructions you could download. Recommendations are to install the SSD in laptop and attach the OEM drive via USB to clone. I didn't do that. I used Acronis to create a bootable DVD. I had to change the BIOS on laptop to allow booting from DVD and bingo. Launched the Acronis app and cloned the drive. The clone was exact, all partitions and hidden partitions were recreated. All works fine, has been 3 months and not issues. Boot time and amazing when comparted to slow spindle drive. I also had updated the memory.

I also went to WD site and registered the drive. Had to provided a screen shot of the Amazon order. Was accepted.

Very happy.

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GS

Great

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024

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Used it with my Ninja V for recording, but also as a portable SSD. No issues.

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Airedad

Installs and runs very well on Fedora Linux F29

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019

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Please note: I only gave this drive 4 stars for capacity because my other drives range from 3TB to 8TB making this one seem "tiny" by comparison. (That isn't fair, but if a significantly larger SSD were available [8TB or larger] I would give serious consideration to buying one. Hence the rating is relative. Yes, there are some 4TB's available but that's too small for what I'm planning. Sorry WD.)

This is ONLY a preliminary review - I've been using this drive for only a few days and here are my initial points of note.

Now about a year ago I tried replacing the drive containing the root file systim (/ in case you aren't familiar with Linux or Unix) with another, smaller solid state drive, and that was a disaster (the system could not see the drive no matter what I did). i actually tried 2 of them and had the same, useless results with both, so I gave up. However, I decided to give it another try and this time it worked perfectly.

Now my "normal" root file system for this system is on an 8TB drive, but even though it's very fast, sometimes the work load on this machine gets fairly high, does tons of disk I/O, slowing down the entire system (it isn't the CPU - that's an "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz" which which runs like lightning on its MSI X99A MB).

So I decided to build a new "root drive" containing only /, /tmp, var, swap, the BIOS boot partition, and the "EFI System Partition." I am using the machine primarily for SW development at this point, but initially it was intended to the the front end of a system monitoring a ridiculously-large network containing well over 2 billion devices (yes it's a major telecom/network carrier). So it has *extremely* fast communications conecivity/capabilities), and consequently it has all the horsepower I need for it's current uses.

The last time I put this box together I installed from the "Server" live disk and then added everything else I needed (Gnome, KDE, development, etc. ad inifintum) later. This time I started with my preferred KDE desktop and went from there.

The entire install of the KDE live system took (IIRC - I've lost my notes) about 20 minutes from begin to end, and after the install (and the post-initial-boot "finish the install") were finished, the machine rebooted almost faster than I can believe.

Now a bit of an aside: During the normal boot process (think /etc/rc.d/rc.local), there are a lot of external checks which used to slow the boot time down to about 3.5 minutes. After swapping to this SSD drive, the boot time is under 45 seconds with the same rc.local contents.

I can't comment on reliablity yet (it's far too soon), and I will be updating this review in a couple of months.

That being said I have noticed one thing that gives me a laugh any time I see it. When I run the command "hddtemp" to check the temperatures of the various hd's on the system, when it gets to this line it prints out:
"/dev/sdc: WDC WD4002FYYZ-01B7CB0: drive is sleeping"
:-)

Oddly enough although the drive is functioning, the system also reports that it's RPM is 0 and that the drive must be sleeping or off-line.

Oh - there is one other thing worth mentioning. While HDDtemp can't measure it's temperature, I did put a contact thermometer on it and it measured it as 71.4 F, the chasis temperature.

As I already said, as soon I have enough experience to write a logic/experience-based review - or of the drive goes belly-up - I'll write an update. In the mean time if you'running Linux/Unix and want to try one of these, I'd say go for it.

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