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| Price | $93.98 | -13% $139.85 List: $159.99 | -14% $59.95 List: $69.99 | $77.74 | $82.99 | -27% $62.38 List: $84.99 |
| Delivery | Get it May 2 - 3 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 4 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 4 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 4 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 4 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 4 |
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| Sold By | GP Thunder ✅✅ | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | My Secret Style | Amazon.com |
| storage capacity | 500 GB | 2000 GB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 1000 GB | 500 GB |
| hardware interface | sata 6 0 gb | solid state drive | solid state drive | solid state drive | solid state drive | sata 6 0 gb |
| compatible devices | Desktop | Laptop, Desktop, PC | Laptop, Desktop, PC | Desktop, Laptop | Laptop, Motherboards | Laptop, PC |
| form factor | 2.5-inch | 2.5-inch | M.2 2280 | 2.5-inch | M 2 | 2.5-inch |
| write speed | 525 | 520 | 3600, 3600 | 545 megabits per second | 4900 | 530 |
| read speed | 545 megabytes per second | 560 megabytes per second | 4000 MB | 545 megabytes per second | 5150 megabytes per second | 560 megabytes per second |
From the manufacturer
Optimized for multitasking and high-end computing, WD Blue solid state drives offer superior performance with industry-leading reliability. With extensive WD FIT Lab compatibility testing, a WD Blue SSD lets you upgrade your digital storage with confidence.
- Read speeds up to 545MB/s and write speeds up to 525MB/s for blazing fast performance1.
- Industry-leading 1.75M hours mean time to failures(MTTF) for lasting reliability.
- Optimized for multitasking and resource-heavy applications.
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Superior performanceA WD Blue SSD has read speeds of up to 545MB/s and write speeds of up to 525MB/s for faster application response times and boosted transfer speeds. With WD Blue SSDs, you get the speed to easily run high-end applications like video games, HD media players, or creative software. |
A leader in reliabilityWith a 1.75M hour mean time to failure (MTTF)1 and an endurance rating of up to 400 terabytes written (TBW)*, WD Blue SSDs are ready to run for years to come. Along with several error-correcting technologies, WD Blue solid state drives protect your data with lasting reliability.
*TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity. |
Multitasking made easyOptimized for multitasking, WD Blue SSDs can simultaneously run several resource-heavy applications with ease. Edit a 4K video, check your email and run a virus scan in the background, all without slowing your system. |
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A form for every PCAvailable in 2.5” 7mm and M.2 2280 versions, WD Blue SSDs are ready to accommodate most laptop and desktop PC form factors. |
Certified for compatibilityWD Blue SSDs go through extensive compatibility and reliability testing, and are certified by WD FIT Labs to work with a wide range of desktop and laptop computers. |
Free WD SSD DashboardThe WD SSD Dashboard gives you a powerful suite of tools to track things like your available capacity, drive health, firmware version, SMART attributes, and more. |
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| Price | $91.13 | $177.38 |
| Ideal for | PC enthusiasts, gamers, creative professionals | Gamers, creative professionals, media enthusiasts |
| Interface | SATA 2.5”/7mm & M.2 2280 | SATA |
| Highest Available Capacity | 2TB | 6TB |
| Limited Warranty | 3-year | 2-year |
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Format it and it's good to go! *see update*
Updated to 4-stars from 2 [3/26/17]So after a few emails with WD Support instead of just sending this back to Amazon, I took it upon myself to do a long format on this SSD. Long format in that I unchecked the "Quick Format" box..I popped in my Kingston HyperX 120gb, reinstalled Windows for like the 3rd time that week, and did a format of this WD Blue. When everything was done, I opened up the WD Dashboard, and bam! Everything is good! Status says drive is good and the firmware updated. Speed is up to where it should be - passing my Kingston in 4 of 6 categories.SO just watch out, that you might have to format it right out of the box! Left off 1 star because of that fact..- - - - - - -I bought this to replace the 2 SSD's I had been running - one with OS and other with Adobe Suite and a few select games [Skyrim, which is slow loading on HDD]. The idea of having just one SSD and one less drive overall was great - coupled with the great reputation of WD Blue, how could you go wrong?!Well, installing it and plopping Windows 7 on it is where things went wrong. The first attempt at installing Win7 went ok for a week or two. Then suddenly the whole system came unglued... . It dropped to a slow performance and a literal 4 minute boot time. Not having any of that, I did a fresh wipe and tried it again. This time it boots at normal speed, as I've since isolated the problem driver, but this drive still preforms pretty slow.Looking up some benchmark/performance testing software, I ended up with a good ol' fashion UserBenchmark, and even that confirmed my system was about half the beast it was pre-WD Blue. I attached a screen shot of a drive-specific test for you to see how abysmal it really was! Barely better than my aging Toshiba 2TB HDD!The 2nd Windows7 install on this Blue drive gave the proper 20-30 second boot time, but then quickly started having lags in window response times, desktop response times, and overall Explorer.exe responsiveness. Really?!Doing some more searching on SSD-optimizing software, I found that WD actually released a Dashboard for their new SSD line. That would've been nice to know right off the bat...So I installed it and immediately it tells me the drive is bad. Great...There was also a Firmware update. ...Great, one more piece of equipment that needs to be kept up-to-date.Then it tells me it's not compatible with my system.What??It's not a driver incompatibility, it's the drive. Since when is a hard drive not compatible with a computer system?!?! WHATT?!WesternDigital, I expected so much better from you! Looks like i'm returning it and putting back my HyperX 120gb.Only reason I give this WD Blue 2 stars is on the chance that I just happened to get a lemon. Otherwise it's been a 0-1 star experience.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2018
Capacity: 250GBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017
Capacity: 250GBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017
Capacity: 1TBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
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Gus
Excelente inversión!!!
Reviewed in Mexico on June 13, 2018Capacity: 500GBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
Moe Zilla
Outstanding vvalue for a PCIe SSD of this size
Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2017Cliente de Amazon
Muy bueno pero me "robaron" 35 Gb
Reviewed in Mexico on July 14, 2017
AVISEK CHOWDHURY
I'm a hardcore fps gamer !
Reviewed in India on March 26, 2019Capacity: 250GBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
Naman
Super rápido
Reviewed in Spain on January 10, 2018Capacity: 250GBStyle: 2D NAND 2.5” SSDVerified Purchase
Naman
Reviewed in Spain on January 10, 2018
Este en particular tiene una capacidad de 250GB, necesitaba un SSD para cambiar el HDD de mi portátil y así mejorarlo y alargar mas su vida útil, y se nota una mejora en un 99% por no decir 100%. super silencioso y trabaja a una velocidad fenomenal, es como si tuviera un nuevo portátil.
Recomiendo la compra 100%, y no hace falta comprarse uno de mas capacidad y pagar mas, utilizo el SSD para tener mis programas y el OS, y para los datos y toda otra información uso el antiguo HDD que tenia el portátil, comprando un adaptador de SATA a USB que por 10€ consigues uno aceptable.
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