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Western Digital 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T2B0A

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Digital Storage Capacity 1000 GB
Hard Disk Interface eSATA
Connectivity Technology SATA
Brand Western Digital
Special Feature WD FIT Lab certification
Hard Disk Form Factor 3.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description Solid State Drive
Compatible Devices Laptop, Desktop, PC
Installation Type Solid State Drive
Color Blue

About this item

  • An industry leading 1.75M hours mean time to failure (MTTF) (1) and up to 600 terabytes written (TBW) (2) for enhanced reliability. | (1) MTTF = Mean Time To Failure based on internal testing using Telcordia stress part testing. (2) TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity.Specific uses: Business, personal
  • WD F.I.T. Lab certification for compatibility with a wide range of computers.
  • Free downloadable software to monitor the status of your drive and clone a drive, or backup your data
  • An active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSD.

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WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD

Enhanced reliability

You’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. You can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD.

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Ideal For
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Form Factor
SATA 2.5”/7mm & M.2 2280 M.2 2280 M.2 2280 M.2 2280
Interface
SATA III 6 Gb/s PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 2 lanes PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes PCIe Gen3 8 Gb/s up to 4 lanes
Sequential Read Speed
up to 560 MB/s up to 2,400 MB/s up to 3,470 MB/s up to 3,470 MB/s
Sequential Write Speed
up to 530 MB/s up to 1,950 MB/s up to 3,000 MB/s up to 3,000 MB/s
TBW
up to 600TBW (4TB) up to 600TBW up to 600TBW up to 600TBW
Highest Capacity Available
4TB 1TB 2TB 2TB

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    The WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD utilizes 3D NAND technology for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. Featuring an active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSDs, you’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop, while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. Combined with the free. you can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. |As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. | Active power draws are up to 25% lower during sequential reads than previous generations of WD Blue SSD at the 500GB capacity point. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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    Customer reviews

    4.8 out of 5 stars
    4.8 out of 5
    20,726 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the speed, quality and performance of the computer drive. They mention that it's very fast, improves load times and that it holds up well in their media server. They also appreciate the ease of use and value for money.

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    549 customers mention513 positive36 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the speed of the computer drive. They mention that it is very fast compared to most HDD drives, it improves load times in the games overall by 25-35%, startups, access and app loads are faster, and that the high speed of this SSD is excellent for their purposes. The boot up is lightening fast, and the computer behaves promptly and efficiently. They also appreciate the quick and crisp things, and say that downloads are in seconds.

    "...The result of the upgrade is that the computer runs at light speed for the basic tasks I use it for...." Read more

    "...Computer is now lightening-fast...." Read more

    "...The speed increase and low power consumption make this SSD an excellent upgrade from older slow HD’s. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" Read more

    "...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...." Read more

    467 customers mention372 positive95 negative

    Customers like the quality of the computer drive. They say it's reliable, well-made, and holds up well in their media server. Some customers also mention that the drive gives their old computer a new life.

    "...Installation was fairly easy. WD has good online tools to clone the existing hard drive and also to manage the SSD...." Read more

    "..." 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...." Read more

    "...'s still a great little computer after all these years and the SSD gave it new life...." Read more

    "...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...." Read more

    393 customers mention368 positive25 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the performance of the SSD. They mention that it offers the best combination of adequate performance, reliability, and competitive price. Some say that it works flawlessly with plug and play, and that it installs 117gb of backup data very fast. They also say that the transition went smoothly and that the product is amazing.

    "...of drama upon start-up with the new SSD, but I was elated to see everything worked perfectly..." Read more

    "...2012 quad-core i7/16GB Mac Mini which is running Catalina and it works flawlessly...." Read more

    "...The Western Digital Blue 3D 1TB offers excellent performance at a good price point...." Read more

    "...All works fine, has been 3 months and not issues. Boot time and amazing when comparted to slow spindle drive...." Read more

    321 customers mention292 positive29 negative

    Customers find the computer drive easy to use. They say the program installation process is blindingly fast, and the upgrade process is effortless. Customers also mention that the transition went smoothly, and that the drive is good for re-installing OS.

    "...Installation was fairly easy. WD has good online tools to clone the existing hard drive and also to manage the SSD...." Read more

    "...The upgrade process was effortless using the Acronis software that was provided free of charge...." Read more

    "...It was easy to physically install too..." Read more

    "...Super Easy to Install.Compliant with Windows 7 and up, as well as apple ios and linux...." Read more

    268 customers mention262 positive6 negative

    Customers appreciate the value of the computer drive. They mention that it offers the best value and performance of any 2.5" laptop drive, and is quite reasonable for a 1TB drive. The prices keep dropping and the sales on their drives are nice. Overall, customers recommend the drive as it is well worth considering.

    "...I thought this one was in a sweet spot of quality and price. Admittedly that's a very non technical assessment." Read more

    "...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..." Read more

    "...I now have several of these drives I was so impressed. Well worth the money!" Read more

    "...MLC-Like performanceAggressive endurance ratingLow price pointBundled software suiteCons:..." Read more

    87 customers mention81 positive6 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the capacity of the computer drive. They mention that it has loads of storage space, is sturdy, reliable, and well-made. Some say that it holds their games good and is a great data drive for use with laptops. They also say that the drive allows them to save thousands of photos and copies big files at a high bandwidth.

    "Great drive. I got 7 years out of the last one, but when they start to go, they go fast." Read more

    "...Plenty of memory and unused drive space but windows task manager showed the disk was 100% busy after booting and the computer was unresponsive..." Read more

    "...great, provided a significant performance boot, and a significant increase in disk space to my primary C: drive partition...." Read more

    "...This, particular 2.5" SATA SSD drive has loads of storage space and is; sturdy, reliable, well-crafted, and very fast compared to most HDD drives......" Read more

    63 customers mention63 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the booting time of the computer drive. They mention that it boots up quickly, and there is no waiting to begin using programs. They also say that productivity applications are much faster to open and performance in some games has markedly improved. Customers say that the drive is recognized immediately upon booting up their HP laptop and that large software programs pop right up without spinning.

    "...Startup feels instantaneous as does the loading of any programs running on the machine...." Read more

    "...11. System booted up quickly with zero problems and everything was just like the original drive in every way, only much faster!..." Read more

    "...All works fine, has been 3 months and not issues. Boot time and amazing when comparted to slow spindle drive...." Read more

    "...This ssd drive is like having 1TB of RAM. Windows doesn't just load anymore, it blasts on the screen with nerve shattering speed...." Read more

    42 customers mention3 positive39 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the durability of the computer drive. They say that it fails soon after installation and loses data. Some customers also report that the S.M.A.R.T. sensor reported a failing status.

    "...In one hour, Macrium Reflect informed me that I had some corrupted files that needed to be fixed and gave me the command line prompt to fix them...." Read more

    "...On the first system, it crashed at the end of the process, but it had actually completed...." Read more

    "...with the process of cloning the original drive was that it made 1/2 of this drive useless because it was reserved for backup...." Read more

    "...Both drives screwed up and finally got the HD up and in repair mode on laptop to get it running again. AOMEI Backupper finally cloned the drive...." Read more

    Fast and cool for a 2012 Mac Mini which I use as a PLEX Media Server...
    5 Stars
    Fast and cool for a 2012 Mac Mini which I use as a PLEX Media Server...
    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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    Jim DeZolt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Install - Great Performance
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019
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    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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 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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    Marco Trajola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfetto e velocissimo
    Reviewed in Italy on December 23, 2023
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    Veramente un ottimo disco esterno ssd sata velocissimo e sinora assolutamente affidabile forse il prezzo e’ un po’ altino…
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    Diogo Barbosa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Produto de primeira qualidade e dentro das especificações.
    Reviewed in Brazil on March 8, 2021
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    O produto tornou o meu laptop muito mais rápido e o acesso aos programas e arquivos está mais ágil do que nunca.
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    Luffy Reviews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great product don't think just buy!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020
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    I was on the market looking to replace my laptop's 5 years HDD to an SSD, I narrowed my options down to the WD Blue or the Samsung SSD EVO. In the end i went for this due to it being cheaper and reviews saying that this gives Samsung SSD a run for its money.

    Design and quality wise it was much smaller, lighter and plasticky than i expected. Guess I’m more used to having HDD, however this is completely worth the investment. It is easy to install and performance wise it's amazing. I feel like i can actually use my laptop now, previously with the HDD drive i needed to plug the power in to my laptop to actually use it with the SSD i don't need to plug it in to the power source and it works like a dream. I've been using this for 2 weeks now and have not faced any issues yet.

    I carried out for some basic tests to see the changes in performance. All the "Previous test" were with the HDD and power plugged in and all the "current test" were done with the SSD without the power plugged in. Please bare in mind the performance you'll get will depend on your own laptop/pc specs.

    Performance test
    - Previous boot time - around 21 seconds
    - Current boot time around 8-10 seconds
    - Previous opening Microsoft word - around 10 seconds
    - Current opening Microsoft word - around 1-3 seconds
    - Previous loading Valorant to home screen - around 1 min 30 seconds +
    - Current loading Valorant to home screen - around 42 seconds

    SSD's will give you much better performance than a HDD. It's a perfect minor upgrade to your laptop or pc to add extra life to your machine. I would 100% Recommend this product.

    One thing to keep in mind i use Macrium to clone my HDD to SSD. Initially i did come across some errors on the first couple of runs. You just got to ensure that there's no dust and is plugged in correctly and it should work fine.
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    おっさん
    5.0 out of 5 stars クローン作成
    Reviewed in Japan on April 23, 2024
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    ＷＤのフリーソフトが提供されることと、製品の信頼性が高いから。
    今までＷＤのブルーを幾つも使ってきたがトラブルはなかった。
    何年間安定して使えるかは未知。
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    Krusty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good solid SSD
    Reviewed in Australia on May 5, 2023
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    Great SSD - super quick and makes perfomance on my pc better :)
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