WD Blue Solid State Drive

Im getting an average of only 166.4 MB/s out of this drive right now, however I put it into an aged Gateway NV44 that uses DDR2 PC6400, with a slower SATA 3Gb/s header & a T4300 processor that is not a power house. Start times are much faster, making for a more responsive system despite the older interfaces & slower memory.

Replaced the system drive for a PC and the drive for a MacBook Pro (Mid 2012). The PC was a custom but but older gaming rig. Had two WD Raptor 10K in RAID 0. The MS system benchmark rated the drive performance as a 6.0. With the SSD the measure went up to 7.4. While an arbitrary number the improvement was significant. Especially in boot times. General gaming performance is also faster. The MacBook also benefited with the upgrade in boot time. Installation and formatting to Apple system was no problem. Since I had the necessary EFI upgrade installation of the OS was also very straightforward. However, the disk usage hasnt been as dramatic an improvement. Mostly because my use is less disk intensive on the MacBook comported to the PC. Battery and such are well improved. One note, there is a feature called TRIM that will not be enabled in macOS. This feature improves read/write efficiency. Google the term, TRIM support mac OS SSD and look for the howtogeek page. Explanations and procedure there. All in all a very good upgrade. And a little subversive act of defiance since the disk says PC SSD and it slides nicely into the mac.

Works great, fast and as far as I can tell 0 issues. Plugged right up after a full format and away we went. Using it for everyday and gaming alike. Since going to a full SSD system I have zero issues and great speed. I cannot say for speed rating as I have not tested it yet. But during download/installs it has peaked out around a few hundred MBs. Check others and the speed comparisons; you cant go wrong with this drive. I havent noticed and issues yet! Though it does seem that after regular and heavy use, that everything is loading faster since I started using it. Super happy with it; and dont let the Blue category vs Black fool you. Seems that the only SSD they offer right now is Blue. So, I guess a Black edition is coming? If so, it is going to have crazy performance!

Bought this SSD because Ive always used WD Black HDDs in my PC. I wanted to get a Western Digital Black SSD but could not find one in the sata 6 variant only m.2 so I grabed this WD Blue SSD instead. I wanted the Samsung 850 evo but this one was on sale for 85 dollars. This is my first SSD and took me about 5 mins to install and worked like a charm. I instantly went to test its speed. My WD Black HDDs read and write around 130-150 mbs. This SSD reads for me between 410-425 mbs and writes between 375 and 400 mbs. Im sure there are faster and better SSDs out there but for 85 dollars I am very happy with it. Much much faster than my WD Black HDDs. Only wish I had got the 1TB version instead of the 250GB one as now I want everything on the SSD instead of the HDD due to it being so much quicker. If you just want a good SSD that works great and is plenty fast for the price I think this one is great. 85 dollars for 250GB SSD is hard to top.

Anything by WD is good. Still going strong.

One of the best replacement hard drives. The solid state 1Terrabyte is a huge storage monster, and greatly improves the speed of your computer. Adding this has given my seven year old laptop a new life.

Good value for money. Now I can finally use my windows 10 computer without waiting forever for things to settle down. A little slower than expected when doing intensive seek operations. However, lightning fast moving large chunks of data. Overall a great product for the price.

My Hitachi operating hard drive on my 12 year old Gateway crashed .. replaced it with his WD Blue SSD (restored from Acronis). So Far I am happy with the operation of the new drive ... will have to see if it will last as long as the original drive did..

Installed super easy. I read all kinds of complex stories about settings people had to change on their mainboards to get M2 disks to work properly and be bootable. I had an issue right out of the gate, and then noticed my firmware was a year old. Updated my BIOS and bam, worked. Actually, I did have to unplug the SATA disks I had connected on the first bus (drives 0 and 1). Once I did that though, Windows 10 installed in about 15 minutes and I was back to setting up my apps and installing my games. Upgrading a HDD, even with reliable cloning methods, has always taken me about an hour. I was back and running at full speed in about half an hour. Very impressive.

Bought 2 of these to bring new life to a couple of old laptops. Kept my old operating systems and cloned & partitioned them for Linux Mint as a second system using the free version of Minitool. Both laptops work perfect with this drive and the newer one with a faster interface & CPU runs at least 5 times faster than with its old mechanical drive. They barely get warm and I havent had a computer freeze or blue screen since installing them. They will probably outlive the machines I put them in so when that time comes, they will be re-purposed to another machine.