Western Digital Wd Blue, Ssd Internal Memory Card 2.5 Inch, 500 GB - Black

Does'nt work after 1 Day, seems to be a fake Product.Had uploaded all my precious family photos onto this successfully. When i tried accessing them the next day, the hard drive is not recognised by my pc and other laptops. There is a clicking around coming from it.Dont want to give it for servicing as it my personal docs too - seems all is lost.I opened the case cover after checking in YouTube for fixes and the hatd drive cleadly is labeleld " for internal use only".This is clearly a fake product !

Used this to replace the aging and slow 500GB HDD in my Shield TV Pro model.Since this SSD is nearly the exact same dimensions and capacity (important to note that you have to replace the HDD with the exact same capacity - 500GB) as the built in HDD, it fit perfectly.Now my Shield TV performs at a much faster rate and has improved load and boot times tremendously.It's even improved the gaming performance of the unit.Highly recommended.

Used this to replace the HDD on my Lenovo S230u Thinkpad. The laptop is blazing fast now. Bootup takes 10-15 seconds. I highly recommend this SSD. The product comes with a 5 year warranty and WD support in the UAE is good. I dealt with them for a previous HDD and found them to be very responsive.

Very happy with the performance. I purchased this for my xbox One and the difference could be seen instantly when recovering OS on this new drive for the XBox One. It was so fast that I didn't even get a chance to read all the content on screen. Finished the entire process in seconds. Game loding times have almost disappeared...my old Xbox one now again feels like a next gen console with such speed.

No nonsense product. It is what it is. Performance is good as expected. Main difference after hdd 2 ssd upgrade is in boot time and apps opening, especially chrome.Disk usage earlier in task manager was always huge... With ssd upgrade u ll see noticable difference.

Writing this review to confirm that it is authentic and genuine as described.The SSD is working great. It made my laptop super fast. It’s better to do a clean windows rather than transferring from an old drive.I recommend this drive specially for old laptops.

I bought this product couple of days ago, it was clearly mentioned 500GBHowever, after installing the product on my laptop the actual size was only 465GB!! which is way less than 500GB as mentioned in the product details!!I am not an IT expert to know there will be 35GB less actual size on the drive, otherwise I would've bought the 1TBI believe - as a customer - I should be well informed by the product description written on Amazon or any other selling platform - that actual size is way less than advertised size, and that the actual size is 465GB only!!Now I am completely dissatisfied - and I strongly believe that customers should be well informed about the product actual specifications - so they are give the freedom to chose which product is more convenient for them before they place the purchasing order!!

The SSD from WD company is really electronic circuits in side SSD without any motors, It's not flash memory so you can reformat same any HDD files , and working with Mac or windows.

Got the SSD. Took me a few days to get a HDD holder to try to clone this drive. SSD was not being recognized by PC when connected to the HDD holder. Needed to isolate the problem. So took out the original HDD from my laptop and tested with the HDD holder - and it was being recognized! So the problem is with the SSD - but not able to return it now because there is no option to return it!!!!!!!!! Help !!!!!!!!!!Amazon told me that manufacturer would be able to help. Called WD and they did an RMA process for me since there is a 3 yr warranty on the SSD. Had to drop off the bad drive at their local center - they tested and confirmed it was bad. A replacement will be mailed to me in a week or so - but it will be a refurbished drive and not a new one!!!!!!!!!!!! Hoping that the replacement comes in working condition.A bitter experience overall - paying retail price to finally get a used drive!!! Thanks Amazon! - for tossing me over to the manufacturer.Update (20 Nov 18)WD sent me a replacement, which looks like a new drive (not refurbished, as I was told by their support team). I cloned my HDD and installed it. laptop working much faster now. I am upgrading the review to a 4 star from a 1 star because of my experience dealing with WD. Despite the early pain, the whole WD replacement experience was rather smooth - I want to show my appreciation for this.

I came within a whisker of spending £600 on rebuilding my 7 year old self built PC as it was becoming increasingly, painfully slow. After testing everything I could with free tools it seemed most likely to be that both HDD’s were beginning to fail. So I thought I’d try a SATA SSD first, on the basis that if that didn’t fix it I could at least re-use it as a second drive if I then went ahead with a new board, memory, CPU and m.2 SSD.In the event it’s worked a treat. My PC now boots up to windows login in about 20 seconds and applications like outlook, excel, browsers, open up more or less instantaneously. I’d have been happy with that result from the £600 spend and doubt I’d have even noticed anything quicker. The only games I still play are ancient and undemanding, so unless something else wears out I’d hope to have the effect of a new pc for maybe another 2 or 3 years by which time everything I’d have bought today will be cheap as chips.As for the SSD itself, I’m afraid I can’t really tell you anything useful that would help differentiate between this one and another one. I’ve used WD forever and it’s creditable that the HDD drives this has replaced were 7 and 18 years old respectively.Fitting it was of course a doddle, if you can replace a fuse you can replace a hard drive, just remember to check whether you need a 2.5 to 3.5 inch bracket to mount it in the case as older cases often don’t have 2.5 inch drive bays.

ASUSのノートパソコンのHDD換装に使いました。OSはWindows10です。先に蓋をあけてWDの500Gが入っていたのを確認しましたので、同一のメーカーにしました。使い慣れたEaseUS Todo Backup（Free)で軽い気持ちで”クローン”作成にしましたが、思わぬところに落とし穴がありました。開始してからどうも不安になり一旦キャンセルしてネットで調べたところ「MBRが正常に出来ていないと失敗する」ようで、よく見るとこちらのSSDは新しいタイプのパーティション"GPT”になっていました。これを”MBR”にしないといけないのでひと手間かかりました。今回は親切な方の解説入りのクローンの仕方を読めたので、助かりましたが購入する前の情報にはこの点の記載は無く、注意が必要と思います。他社の製品がどちらのフォーマットになっているのかもわかりませんでした。古くからのWindowsユーザーですが新しい製品には疎いのでこんな落とし穴にも気づかないものですね。まだ交換して間もないので性能についてのレビューはありません。

Ich stand vor der Entscheidung, ob ich meinen PC ersetzen muss. Ich habe nun doch nur die alte magnetische Platte durch diese SSD ersetzt und den Arbeitsspeicher ausgetauscht. Nach Neuinstallation des PC's ist er sehr viel schneller.Die SSD und auch der Arbeitsspeicher im heruntergefahrenen (ausgeschalteten) PC austauschen. Beides wurde gleich erkannt. Falls die SSD nicht erkannt wird, das UEFI/Bios auf AHCI umstellen.Tipps:- Wenn nicht schon geschehen, die Benutzeranmeldung des alten Rechners auf ein Microsoftkonto umstellen.- Die notwendige Windows-Installations CD mit dem Media Creation Tool für Windows erstellen. Die neue Installation übernimmt dann die Lizenz der alten.- Die Windowsanmeldung im neu installieren Windows wie vorher auch über das alte Microsoft Konto erstellen, damit auch der Zugriff auf die alte Platte klappt.- Die alte Platte ohne Formatierung mit einem zweiten SATA-Kabel in den neu installierten PC hängen.- Die Daten der alten Platte sind im Pfad des Benutzers noch zu finden. Jetzt nur noch die Pfade (Dokumente, Bilder, Musik,...) des neuen Windows auf die magnetische Platte verlinken, fertig. Alle Programme werden nun auf der SSD gespeichert (damit sie schnell starten), alle Daten liegen weiter noch auf der alten Platte.- Sollte die SSD mal den Geist aufgeben, kann man die alte Platte wieder umstöpseln und schon hat man wieder das alte Windows mit allen Daten.- Da auch magnetische Datenträger mal kaputt gehen können, an die Datensicherung denken oder bei ausreichendem Platz auf die SSD spiegeln.

I bought this to speed up a Compaq CQ58 laptop that had a 500GB (HGST) conventional drive.The drive came as SSDs do, in a box so I fitted it to a USB caddy for migration (I've done this before so I have a suitable USB disk drive caddy).I downloaded and installed the WD migration software (Acronis True Image WD Edition) and ran it.It required a WD drive to install (the installed drive was HGST [now owned by WD] and that didn't do it !).Fortunately I had a spare USB port and a spare WD USB drive so that problem could be overcome.Once I ran the software it started but wanted the computer rebooted then never ran.This seems a common problem (from the Acronis forums) but other than buying the newer version of the Acronis software no obvious fix.I tried WD support and spoke to a very pleasant person for about 30 minutes. The conclusion seemed to be that it was a known problem, I had tried the obvious fixes (enabling USB boot and disabling secure boot in the BIOS) but there was little they could suggest.I then looked for other data migration software and found Macrium Reflect Free.Fortunately this worked faultlessly and after about two and a half hours my data had been copied.I swapped the built in hard drive for the newly cloned SSD and the computer booted up without any issues.I'm very pleased with the SSD (possibly because WD bought someone else's SSD brand) but it's such a shame that WD support it with flawed software. It appears that the bundled Acronis software is out of date which is why the paid edition was said to work.I've used the WD software in the past and it has worked (from a failed WD drive to a new drive) but this was all very disappointing.