Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G3B0B

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Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2...

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Easy Cloning Process

Customers have reported a seamless and effortless cloning process when transferring data from their old drives to the new WD Blue SA510 SSD. The Acronis software was mentioned as an effective tool for completing the task, with some users praising its automatic licensing feature.

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Good Price

Customers have mixed opinions on the price of this SSD, with most expressing satisfaction that it is a good value for the money, but some reporting issues with durability after a few months of use.

Dependable

Customers have mixed opinions regarding the dependability of this Western Digital SSD. While some report positive experiences and trust in the brand's reputation, others express concerns about product failures and a perceived lack of customer support.

Fast Performance

Customers have mixed opinions regarding the fast performance of this SSD, with some reporting excellent speed improvements while others express disappointment and slow read/write speeds.

Sata Interface

Customers have mixed opinions regarding the SATA interface of the Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SA510 SSD, with some reporting it works as expected while others encountered issues with drive recognition and had to manually select Solid State Drive option in BIOS. Some users reported that the drive is a little faster than their original hard drives despite being a SATA SSD. However, a few customers experienced drive failure within a year of purchase.

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Quality

The drive fits snugly in the adapter and you can close the bottom cover of the mac air with no problems.

Computer renames new ssd to the c drive and everything worked!

Couldn’t stand the glacial boot times and sluggish response.

S in the first place, leaves a small amount of data on the ssd, which can cause problems with the 2nd installation, using that same ssd.

Price

1tb is more than enough storage space for my needs in this computer, so at 80 bucks (i see it has gone up $10, but still a grea... Read More

Now, i know why it was so cheap.

This model is a decent price for a 2 tb and a five year warranty.

Shipping

As shipped, unformatted drive with no software.

Clone so fast wrote the hard drive and just over 30 minutes cloned it so fast it surprised me.

Packaging/appearance

3: as shown in the 1st picture, once on the main screen, look for ''disc clone''.

Competitiveness

I stayed with using western digital ssds, and since the ssds come with the acronis cloning software, it helped me out a lot.

To me, this is more than a reason enough to buy wd drives over other brands.

After some research, i found out that both ws and samsung provide 3rd party licensed softwares for cloning to their respective ... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,349 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 24 2024.