Western Digital 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0A, Solid State Drive
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Capacity: 500GB
Style: Old Generation
Features
- 3D NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. | As used for storage capacity, 1 terabyte (TB) = 1 trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
- Sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = 1 million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = 1 billion bits per second
- 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
- 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.
Description
The Western Digital 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 Western Digital 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 Western Digital 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 Western Digital 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.Update operating systems to the most current version before installation of this product.
Digital Storage Capacity: 500 GB
Hard Disk Interface: SATA 6 GB/s
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
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 4 x 0.3 x 2.8 inches; 1.3 ounces
Item model number : WDS500G2B0A
Date First Available : July 22, 2017
Manufacturer : Western Digital
Best Sellers Rank: #251 in Internal Solid State Drives
Customer Reviews: 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 35,116 ratings
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In this review, I am going to rate the WD SSD 500GB. The review will be on four main criteria, and I will mention what I liked, and what I didn’t like about the product. Furthermore, I will also share my experience and how I got the product up and running. This review is very detailed, so if you just need to upgrade MacBook Pro, just scroll down to “Upgrade”. This review has been written on the day I had the product running. This review has not been sponsored by WD, and it is solely my own experience and tips I’d like to share. Price: No one can argue that this SSD is fairly priced. I can say it is definitely worth the investment. The value for money is just ridiculous. Quality: Even though this product will be stuck underneath the laptop case, but the plastic feels solid, and it came well packed. Speed: Using BlackMagic Disk Speed Utility, I got the result of 276.7 MB/s write and 504.6 MB/s read. Not quite the promised but good enough. Besides, since this is a 3rd party tool and not embedded in the operating system I don’t expect exact results. Performance: Generally, after replacing my drive, I found out that it made my mac at least 5-8 times faster. Moving large files is instant, starting applications and everything else is much quicker. ----------------------------- Upgrade for MacBook Pro 13 inch ( Mid 2012 model - Non-Retina ) ~~~~~~~~~~ I bought this SDD to upgrade my MacBook Pro 13 inch (Mid-2012 model). This Apple MacBook model is essentially the last model with the upgradable disk. Some other models are upgradable with M2 SSD. So, if your MacBook Pro is a mid-2012 or below, it is most likely upgradable. For non-Apple devices, you need to look up your model and check if this SSD is suitable. Amazon offers a handy tool to do so. This guide will only help for Macs. ~~~~~~~~~~ Disclaimer: I shall not be held responsible for any damages to the drives or loss of data as a result of your mistakes in the process. You are to do this upgrade at your responsibility, and you hold all the risks associated with the upgrade. *It is however advised to backup your data ( mainly the most important ) and to watch other tutorials to have a better idea of the procedure. This is only a guide with the concept of the procedure and is LACKING SOME STEPS. **Basic knowledge of how partitioning and how disk drives work may be important. ~~~~~~~~~~ Before anything, you need to decide the size of the disk. My original was a 500GB spinning drive (HDD), and I bought the 500GB SSD. If you decide that you need more storage, the OSX installation is skipped. Just keep in mind that this could be a major investment in your computer, so if you are left with something between 0-75 GB, you might want to consider getting a bigger sized drive. Step 1: Restart your Mac and press (CMD + R) to enter recovery mode. Go to desk utility and check your currently installed drive (should appear under internal), check the Partition style. Mine showed APFS, but it may be another like Mac OS (Journaled). Step 2: Take the new SSD drive and put it in an enclosure for USB connection. I used the AmazonBasics enclosure, the price and the quality are great. Plug it into the mac’s USB. The drive should appear under external. Step 3: Erase the new drive and format with the format identical to the original drive. (CONFIRM THAT IT IS THE EXTERNAL DRIVE). You can give the new drive any name but try to go for something unique so you don’t confuse it with the current drive. Step 4 A: If you chose an SSD with size larger than your current drive, you can just go back to the EXTERNAL drive in the disk utility and click restore. Then choose the current internal drive as the source. This will fully clone your old drive to the new drive. Step 4 B: If you chose an SSD with size equivalent or smaller than your current drive ( note: You can’t cram 400GB of data into a 250 GB drive), you need to go back to the main recovery page and click on reinstall OS. It will ask you which drive to install into for this case choose the EXTERNAL ( whatever you named it). It will then reinstall the operating system. Next, It will then ask you if you want to get data from another drive just choose the current drive (INTERNAL). Tick everything to get a full copy (Trash is not copied). Step 5: The time it takes usually takes a while depending on your data. After you confirm that the new drive is working fine, you can swap the drives. (You can find step-by-step tutorials on Youtube) —————— Pros: It is Excellent. That’s it. Cons: Not sure if I should consider this as a drawback but more of a ”would be handy to have”. I think if WD supplied software to assist in the logistics of moving data, it would have been really fantastic. As an IT, I don’t trust free 3rd-party software, and if I went for paid software, it would cost high. Otherwise, there is absolutely none. Overall: I think this product is really great, it will give life to ancient computers, and I totally recommend it. You can buy it without hesitation. Other products you may consider (That I've been also considering, but haven't tried) : Sandisk Ultra Kingston A400
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This drive is super fast. However it did not come without a few headaches. First, you will likely need to purchase a SATA cable and 2.5 inch drive bay converter. Each are cheap and plentiful on Amazon, just keep in mind that you likely will not be able to install without them. I added this drive to my old PC which I purchased in 2011, but was pretty future proof at the time. Before I installed, I did a thorough dust cleaning inside the case and then replaced three dead case fans which I didn't even realize had stopped working. OK, now for the drive install. First backup any important files to another drive. I initially tried to clone my existing 8 year old hard drive with Windows 10. The operation went fairly smoothly. However, I found that after I disconnected the old drive and tried to boot up with this drive that it would start Windows but after just a few seconds of beginning the boot process, it would hang at a blank screen and never get me to the login screen. After researching, I determined it was likely issues with out of date drivers or with the PC trying to reference the ID of the original drive while booting up with the new one. In any case, I decided to just go with a fresh install of Windows 10. Assuming you have a fairly current version of Windows, you can do this quite simply and do not need to go rummaging for your product ID, which I could not find. Microsoft allows you to do a fresh install without the need for that as long as you have a current version installed. I followed the steps from the Microsoft web site for a clean install. It took maybe 30 minutes total. First I needed to create an installation media for initial bootup. This is pretty simple, just find a USB drive with at least 8 Gig of space and then you're good to go. Disconnect the old drive after that. Once you have created the installation media, disconnected the old drive and installed and connected the new drive and formatted it, go into Bios settings and set the boot priority so that the installation media (USB drive) is first in line. Then save settings and exit. You will then follow the prompts to do a fresh windows install on the new drive. Once that completes, shut down, re-connect the old hard drive again, go back into Bios and make the SSD drive the first in line for boot priority and remove the installation USB. Save settings and exit. You should now boot up from the new drive. My machine booted up in record time, maybe 40 seconds total from power switch to desktop. It used to take a good four minutes. The downer is you will need to re-install all your programs and browser favorites, etc. But honestly the speed improvement was worth it. This drive is quiet and fast. Very happy so far.
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