Western Digital 2TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS200T2B0A, Solid State Hard Drive

Replaced a 2013 HP Envy C: HDD with a WD Blue SSD. Result was amazing: start, shutdown, application startup and general operation are very much faster perhaps up to 3X faster. It is truly amazing. BUT, cloning took three frustrating days to sort out and online searches for cloning tips were unhelpful. After much trial and error, this is the easiest, safest, and least costly way to clone a C: HDD to an SSD: 1) Buy a SSD the same size as the HDD to be cloned. (Other sizes are possible but too much trouble to clone.) 2) Get 2 USB 3.0 (2.0 works too) to SATA adapters. One must has a 12v pwr supply for the HDD. (The SSD is powered through USB.) 3) Use a separate PC (I used a laptop) from the clone source. VERY IMPORTANT KEY TO SUCCESS! 4) Load the free SSD vendor cloning SW (Acronis True Image for WD Edition for a Western Digital SSD.) 5) With the separate PC up and running, connect the target (SSD) and source (HDD) using the USB adapters 6) Run DISKMGMT.msc to activate the target SSD. Do not partition it or assign it a drive letter. 7) Backup the source HDD using the Acronis backup tool. (Just in case.) 8) Run the cloning software and follow the cloning instructions to pick the target and source drives and then start cloning. This will take quite a while, be patient. 9) Wait for cloning to complete (an hour or more - go have lunch). 10) Remove the USB adapter cables from separate PC. Under no circumstances restart separate PC with source or target drive attached, it my corrupt all of the drives including the separate PC's C: drive. 11) Physically install the now cloned SSD into the source PC. Your will need a 2.5 to 3.5 adapter. 12) Keep the old source HDD until you are sure the new target SSD and your source PC get along then properly dispose of it. That's it! Depending on drive sizes and separate PC speed this should take no more than 2 to 4 hours with no hassle or frustration and the results are truly amazing.

For the money, I wanted something as tank-solid as my Intel SSD's I have. This thing feels like the packaging would weigh more. I was put off by this but after awhile, I have come to respect it. I mean, the light-weight is perfect if used in a laptop and would help to keep it lighter. Or maybe an IOT project. I guess I feel like it had to be heavy, or large, for the money, like that feeling you get spending $100 on a large-capacity SDCARD. Fact is, this thing is not only cool, and has NEVER felt hot to the touch, like my older Intel SSD's, but it's fast! Even when using a USB3 to SATA3 adapter, I am getting 250+MB/s. OK, so that is 2gbps and not even optimal, but for a USB plug-in high-capacity drive, that's insane compared to what I have seen with my older SSD's. I have had no issues with it although I have only had it a couple of months. I wish the warranty was still 5 years and not 3, but it is definitely serving my system WELL with the speed, weight, and also cool-running. We will see how it keeps up. If I run into issues with it, I'll post back here. As it stands though, I'll get a few more.

Great product, still using it today.

My 6-year old HP Pavilion laptop with a Core i7 - 7th Gen - was a race horse when I purchased it - it came with a 1TB mechanical drive. Recently it's been slowing down to a crawl, and taking multiple reboots to start up (especially after those monthly Windows updates), and just plain old bogging down and freezing when I've been making it think too much or gobble too many web pages at one time -- despite all my best efforts to keep it defrag'ed and CCclean'ed, etc - but it's probably my fault because I eventually filled the hard drive to 87% capacity with my "student study notes" WORD document files and .pdf's and video files (not apps or programs). I needed more capacity and more speed. That's why I purchased this WG Blue 2TB SSD. My friend who is a computer tech, told me THIS particular model WD Blue SA510 WDS200T2B0A SSD drive is the one he recommends. WD customers get free use of Acronis True Image for cloning. I'm a tech level "barely novice", but I'm able to follow instructions and to take educated guesses when I reach a fork in the road with no instructions about which way to go. WD's website has a page "Steps to Clone an Operating System Drive with Acronis True Image for Western Digital". I printed it out and studied it, and I watched a few YouTube videos showing me how to open the laptop and replace the hard drive -- one of the videos showed how to use Acronis for WD -- and then I started following the steps of the process. The Acronis True Image cloning instructions are not nearly as complete as I would have liked -- maybe not updated, and some of the "next step/next screen view" that actually happened, were not as the instruction said would happen -- so I had to make some guesses during the 11-page, step-by-step process -- I wouldn't rate those cloning INSTRUCTIONS as 5 stars, maybe only 3 at best -- but I got lucky, because I finally ended up at the actual cloning process -- and from there, it only took 2-1/2 hours to complete the cloning, and then when I restarted (JAN 20, 2024), my laptop is lightning fast again and has been running great, and I'm VERY HAPPY. Now I'll just have to wait and see how reliable the new drive is. I'll update this review if anything changes; so if it's not updated, then all is well.

Ho acquistato questo SSD WD blue da 2 Tb per il mio MacBook Pro mid 2012. Risultato: molto soddisfatto sia per la velocità di avvio del mio pc, sia per la garanzia sul prodotto, pur riscontrando 2 problemi che comunque ho risolto. Il primo problema, riguardante il processo di clonazione del disco: il software gratuito in dotazione (Acronis True Image per WD) non è idoneo per la clonazione di disco con partizione bootcamp (dual boot MacOs e Windows), in quanto dopo il processo di clonazione la partizione Windows non era più avviabile. Ho risolto utilizzando il software Paragon Hard Disk Manager su ambiente MacOs, creando una chiavetta di avvio per la clonazione del disco. Il secondo problema ha riguardato il ciclo di vita residuo del SSD rilevabile dal Dashboard della Western Digital: dopo pochissimi giorni di utilizzo il valore è sceso subito prima al 99%, poi al 98%... al 96%... fino al 95%, per cui ho deciso di effettuare il reso Amazon con sostituzione! Tutto Ok! Il processo di reso e sostituzione di Amazon è stato efficientissimo! Ho ricevuto un secondo SSD perfettamente funzionante.... dopo quasi 1 mese di utilizzo, il valore residuo è al 100%, come ci si dovrebbe aspettare!

muito bom

I wanted to upgrade my mid-2012 MacBook Pro non-retina with a 2TB SSD. It seemed as if the WD 2TB SSD should work, although checking with both WD & Apple, neither would guarantee it. So I went ahead, clone my existing 2TB 5400 HD onto the SSD using SuperDuper!, and swapped the SSD into the MacBook Pro. Rebooted, and voilá - opened with no dramas (other than having to re-validate 2012 MSOffice). Ran some speed tests - system boots 500% faster, LibreOffice for Mac opens 8x faster (previously very slow), and Handbrake, burning DVDs and all apps open & operate way quicker! Works perfectly via wireless with Time Machine on an 8TB WD MyCloud device, and I now use the old HD 2TB drive as an extra backup via SuperDuper! Couldn’t be happier with the unit, and can thoroughly recommend it to any one wanting to extend the mid-2012 (or earlier) MacBook or Pro for a few more years.

I've now had this WD SATA SSD as my main OS for several years & it is going strong (as it should, being WD with a very good warranty). Fit for purpose. I would definitely buy another should the need arise.

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