Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A

As you might know, wd color codes their drives for the use case they are designed for. Reds are for network attached storage devices like drobo and professional gear, green for power efficiency, black for raw performance, and blue for lower-cost all-around everyday use. That is the market that this device is geared toward, and if you are upgrading from a standard spinning disk, building a new office computer, upgrading a laptop, or setting up a lower cost gaming rig, this is a perfect storage device for you.This drive features the m.2 connector which is a card edge style connection that many laptops and some desktop motherboards have. You should carefully examine your owner?€™s manual to verify that this is compatible. This particular drive uses the sata interface just like standard hard drives do, unlike the faster pci-e interface that the pricier drives will have. M.2 cards are keyed in a definite way to ensure that the proper features are available on the laptop or motherboard you are connecting to. This one has both the b and m key which allow it to fit in most m.2 connectors. You can read more here. They as well indicate their width and length in their specifications: this one is a 2280 model which means 22mm ide, and 80mm long. Again, verify your motherboard or laptop support this length.If your particular desktop motherboard doesn?€™t have a m.2 connector, or like mine it is already used, you can add this device by purchasing a low-cost adapter. These merely allow for converting voltage and connectors and do not affect speed. With the adapter, you can connect this drive using standard sata and power connections used on desktop pcs. The one pictured is ngff m.2 ssd to 22-pin sata iii converter adapter and it worked very well for me and came with all the hardware needed for installation (and even a convenient screwdriver), all for less than $10. One of the benefits of doing this as opposed to buying an ssd that already has these connectors is that you can fit the drive in custom spaces in your case. In my system, i was able to add the drive between the drive cage and the case cover since i have no room for extra drives.On the box, this drive promises 560mb read speed, and 530mb write speed. Using crystaldiskmark, which is my go-to drive performance testing tool, you can see that it easily meets its specifications for sequential performance.Compared to a basic spinning disk, i hope you will see the performance difference:if you are used to spinning disks on your pc, you will be astounded. Your system will start fast and programs will load quickly. This is one of the most cost-effective upgrades you can make to a desktop or laptop.This disk doesn?€™t come with any cloning software to get you upgraded, but you can easily use acronis true image to get your existing drive flawlessly copied to your new drive. You just connect the new drive with your old one still in place, start true image, click clone, and follow the easy instructions. Some ssds come with a reduced feature version of acronis or similar to do this cloning, but you?€™ll have to supply your own with this one. Other options include clonezilla, which is completely free, but it has a higher learning curve. Of course, if you are building a computer from scratch or don?€™t mind to reinstall your operating system, this is not a big deal.For the price, this is a great drive. If you are looking to build a high-performance gaming or video editing rig and want the best that state of the art technology can provide, you should consider a pci-e solid state drive, which can easily get 4x or more the performance of one of these drives but will cost you more. However, if you are looking for great performance, a good price, compatibility with laptops and motherboards that only support sata m.2 and not pci-e m.2, this is a winner

Let me state at the outset that I’m not a network guy, nor did I get this for NAS use. For those not really informed about what a NAS is or what is does, let me fill you in. NAS stands for Network Access Storage. For private and commercial applications where you want to be able to access data from multiple computers or devices, you’d generally use a NAS rig with multiple drives linked together for mass storage. This WD Red M.2 SSD is intended for NAS applications. That is, for network storage applications as opposed to as a general computer drive. It is specifically designed to allow for parallel data access (multiple users accessing it at once), as well as long term read/write reliability far beyond what a typical desktop SSD would require or expect. Both things are extremely useful in NAS storage applications. This drive is rated at about 350TB written (TBW) before it wears out and data won’t be written successfully on it any longer. Your average desktop SSD of the same size will be rated in the 120 to 200 TBW range. The 350TBW rating of this drive is quite a bit lower than some of the NAS drive offerings from Seagate, but at this price it’s not terrible. For consumer based use on a regular computer, 350TBW would take a decade or longer to reach. In other words, its reliability is wasted on consumer use. In my case, I got this drive because Vine offered it and because I had need for a SSD for use in one of my laptops. I never really had any intention to use it for NAS storage. In this application it’s probably not the best option, though it’s certainly capable. It’s not the fastest SSD you could get for consumer computer use and in a desktop application its other benefits won’t be utilized. It’s also more expensive than other better options designed for consumer PCs. But let’s say you do use it in a basic computer application. Over a regular mechanical magnetic storage drive, it’s still going to be loads faster. Your traditional 7200rpm magnetic storage mechanical drive transfers at about 120MB a second. This SSD has a practical transfer rate of about 600mb/s . That’s a significant boost and one that you’ll feel when trying to retrieve data, or if using as a boot drive, with how fast Windows boots and responds. In my own use, this was put into an 8 year old laptop with a 2nd generation i5. The laptop works quite well considering its age and the old CPU is perfectly capable of handling almost all basic computing tasks and internet browsing, but the hard drive on it was failing. A SSD to SATA enclosure later and it was installed. The laptop has new lease on life and has been used for school work and other things by my kids since then. The Laptop is far more responsive and snappy than it had been with the old SATA Mechanical drive… including compared to when it was new. Yeah, I suppose I’m wasting the drive on such a use. Bottom Line: I can’t give a rating on this drive for its intended purpose for NAS storage, but as far as being used as a consumer computer drive, it’s quick enough and reliable enough for my needs. I don’t doubt that in NAS applications it’ll function just as well.

SSD de gran rendimiento. El envío llego a tiempo y sin problemas

Excelente producto muy rápido buena calidad y capacidad de almacenamiento

working fine for monument 2, sata 3 (not nvme) m.2 storage. -1 star for value for money vs. nvme m.2

Cost a bit but it works

Its slower than the newer drives so you can get OSs to load on it that you have trouble getting to load on some PCs. I an going to load it with what I want then try copping it to a newer faster V-NAND drive. I have a few PCc I can use it with so one of then will get an upgrade when I am done with my current use for it.

good

I bought this SSD to install into my SSD USB holder to convert it into a USB 1T drive for travel use. So far it has held up wonderfully and I can bring just about every file I need without dealing with multiple USB drives or DVDs for software and documents. Id highly recommend this drive for anyone looking to carry more capacity but fewer USB drives, as this can replace 4 x 256 GB USB drives.

Lo estoy usando como disco de cache para edicion en 4k y funciona perfectamente lo recomiendo 100%