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.

My laptop was really slow on boot-up but ran fine after a 3-5 minute boot. Watching a YouTube video and removing the back screws, and a few Hard disk screws it was easy to remove and replace with his amazing perfect-fit SSDD. I backed-up the old HDD first, and about 20 minutes I completed the image copy to the (twice the size - 2TB) SSD using a USB 3.X adapter and some free software. Another 20 minutes later I completed the removal and replacement of the HSS with the new SSDD and WOW what a fast boot... like 10 seconds vs 3-5 minutes! All the applications worked and I adjusted the partitions so I have a LOT more "data" storage and a separate partition for recovery software. It took me more time to read all the voter propositions than to complete this entire process. I now do not hesitate to grab my laptop to do a quick search (I used my smartphone before) Great value and recommend doing regular back-up (on any type of storage device)

I used to go through hard drives like water... I don't know if it's my heavy big data usage, or what. But then decided to switch to SSDs (Solid State Drives) and that seems to have made all the difference! - First of all, they do boot much more quickly, if it's for a system drive. - Their operational access time is also quicker, in any application. - They tend to last longer since there are no moving parts to wear out - They run totally SILENT, so that's a real boon for users who don't like the noise, and finally, - They run COOLER than most spinning spindles Add all that together with the fact that this is a TWO TERABYTE SSD drive for under $200... and you can easily see why I've got them in several different devices. I find them RELIABLE, RESPONSIVE, FAST and OPERATIONALLY FLAWLESS. What else can I ask for?

I've bought WD products before, and they have always been reliable. I purchased the 2 TB SSD drive here, and went to install it using Acronis True Image for WD, a piece of software found directly on the WD website. In five install attempts I received the same message--specifically, that one of the products being installed must be WD to use this software. So the WD website features a WD-specific product that doesn't recognize a WD drive. Sad that WD doesn't seem to be monitoring its own website. Sad also that the website administrators are so clueless. Instead I downloaded and used Macrium Reflect Disk Free (trial), which worked fine. Watch an online tutorial before you install. Simply specify the drive to be cloned along with the destination drive, then drag and drop drive partitions--in the order that they appear on the source drive-- to the new SSD. You can even shrink or enlarge partitions as needed to fit the new drive. Now my Asus laptop boots in about 12 seconds, not 2 minutes. This is probably the single best upgrade you can make to any computer. This upgrade can extend the life of older machines until the new i9 core processors become cheaper and more widely available. BTW, I have no monetary interest in Macrium or WD. So I'm subtracting one star from an otherwise strong product for the frustration and hassle of having to search for and find the right install software elsewhere.

I used this drive to upgrade storage on my wife's small form factor PC. The drive itself is fine, not exactly top of the line performance but it's more than fast enough and large enough for everyday computing use. My only gripe is the included western digital cloning and utility software. The cloning software only works if you have the new drive installed as an internal drive. If you try to clone an old hard drive with this new drive attached via USB, the cloning software doesn't recognize the new drive as a Western Digital drive and it will refuse to work. This is a huge limitation that makes the included software completely USELESS for most people. Most people will want to clone the drive before removing the old drive out, since there's no easy way to even run the cloning software from a bare empty WD drive and some computers don't have any way to attach more than one internal drive. So that's a huge fail on Western Digital's part. I own the full version of Acronis so I just used that to clone the old drive. After cloning, this new drive swapped in for the old one without any problems and it has worked great ever since. So yes this is a nice SSD but if you're using it to replace an existing drive you will probably want to find a different cloning solution since Western Digital's software doesn't work if you need to use a USB adapter to attach the new drive while cloning.