Western Digital1TB WD Blue SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T3B0A

I never got a chance to use this product as it arrived damaged and unuseable.

I wanted to add a second SSD to my system as my original Samsung SSD is almost 10 years old. Black Friday sealed the deal. As my home build only had two bays and they were both in use, I bought the Corsair Dual SSD Mounting Bracket which allowed me to put the old SSD and new SSD in the same bay (they stack on top of each other). I also planned to clone the new drive as a boot drive. When I ran the Arconis program (that you download off the WD website) and waited two hours I got a warning from Windows (when I tried to boot) that the new drive was corrupted when I tried to boot from it. I made two attempts. It just wouldn't work. A YouTuber had recommended the trial version of Macrium Reflect cloning software. I downloaded that and followed along on the provided video on their website. Super easy. I did have to go into the BIOS to change the boot order as I left the Samsung in place as a backup drive. Overall the WD drive works perfect but I recommend using Macrium to clone the drive.

I recently upgraded my PC with the Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SA510 SSD, and the performance boost has been incredible. Boot times are nearly instant, programs launch in seconds, and overall system responsiveness has dramatically improved, it’s a huge upgrade from any traditional hard drive.Installation was simple thanks to its 2.5"/7mm form factor, very small, fits anywhere inside the PC.Whether you're upgrading an older machine or adding fast storage to your setup, this SSD is a fantastic value. Highly recommend!

I purchased this Western Digital Blue SSD (WD SSD) to replace a 500GB Seagate hard disk drive in my Dell Latitude 3460 laptop running Windows 10. The motivation was to improve I/O disk storage performance. Installation was a snap. The included (via download) Acronis disk duplicator software was helpful, but not flawless. The WD SSD dramatically improved computer performance, which was highly desirable. While I wasn't noticing any specific errors accessing my data on the SSD, I did see that the Western Digital SSD monitoring software stopped working after about one year and then the Dell Support Assist software also stopped working. I didn't think anything of it and just kept on using my laptop as usual.Sadly, when I opened my laptop on the morning of May 27th, 2025, the BIOS screen displayed with an error reporting no hard disk drive found. I was not able to recover from this error using typical troubleshooting techniques including reseating the SATA cable at both ends, etc. Fortunately, I still had my old Seagate disk drive, which had been removed 30 months earlier and not touched since, and reinstalled it. My laptop started right up with the hard disk and so began the ordeal of 30 months' worth of Windows and other software updates. Fortunately, I had been using Windows File History to back up my data and was able to recover my data and avoid any noteworthy data loss.Using the Sabrent external hard drive enclosure I originally purchased to facilitate the hard disk to SSD migration, I attempted to access the WD SSD by connecting it to a USB port through the Sabrent device. The SSD was not detected by my laptop and therefore no longer accessible.I'm not sure I will purchase another SSD and try this migration again. While I was able to avoid data loss, the effort to recover from the mess amounted to an enormous inconvenience. I have read in articles and seen on YouTube good things about Crucial SSD so if I try this again, that would be the next brand I try. I am not likely to purchase another Western Digital product.My suggestion is to avoid this specific product and, if you do decide to go the SSD route, make sure you have a daily backup strategy in place to minimize the risk of data loss. I do not recommend Windows File History though. It did ultimately save my data, but it was not flawless and I had to manually restore my files little-by-little because the Windows File History restore facility would not restore my files to a different hard drive. Now, I am using Free File Sync with a custom script to back up my data to an NAS.Thank you for reading my remarks.

I bought this awhile back and it hasn't failed yet so I'd say it has good lifespan. Speed and storage capacity is what I expected. Haven't had any heat issues. Good value for the money!

I've bought and installed several of these over the last few years, and had great results. I use them to replace the old spinning hard-drives in older laptops, and it cuts boot time dramatically, and really breathes new life into old laptops.No cables or screws included, but that's not an issue when I'm cloning and swapping out the old hard-drive.It's not NVME, but it helps get a couple / few more years out of a laptop by making the system much more responsive.I've only had one ever die, and that was because the laptop motherboard fried and took the RAM and SSD with it. So not an issue with the SSD, just an issue with the old HP laptop.Highly recommended. :)