Western Digital 1TB 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 recently replaced the original hard disk drive (HDD) in my Xbox One X with the Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD, and the results have been nothing short of phenomenal. This upgrade has completely transformed my console, making it feel faster and more responsive in every aspect.The most noticeable improvement is in the boot and game loading times. Games that used to take what felt like an eternity to load now start up in a fraction of the time. This has drastically reduced the friction of jumping into a gaming session. Beyond just games, the entire Xbox home dashboard feels far more fluid and responsive. Navigating through menus, browsing the store, and switching between apps is now incredibly quick, eliminating the sluggishness I had grown accustomed to with the old HDD.While the installation process for an internal drive can be a bit more involved than simply plugging in an external one, the performance benefits are well worth the effort. The WD Blue SA510 is an excellent choice for this kind of project, offering a significant speed boost at a reasonable price point. I highly recommend this drive to any Xbox One X owner looking to breathe new life into their console and gain a massive performance advantage. It's a simple, effective, and impactful upgrade that will change how you use your console.

Arrived on time. Works well. Placed in an old star wars laptop and it has increased the speed of all operations greatly. Added the max of 16 gigs of RAM and it still was pretty slow with the old HD, but not with this one. Handles opening up multiple software and windows at the same time and was a decent price.

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 have bought multiples of this item. These WD drives are rock solid and make a computer work like its brand new. I like matching the size of the original drive and I have a device that does quick clones. That combination makes for a quick fix for many laptops and a few desktop computers. The shipping was quick over night and arrived by 7am. I finished my fix for a friend that day and got his computer returned. He was pleased at how well it worked. As needed I will buy more of these.

You can't go wrong with Western Digital. The 250GB SSD I had was reliable, fast, and durable. Upgrading to the 500GB version, the performance is just as good. Recommended if you are looking for a new hard drive. The delivery was fast and packaging was decent.

This WD drive was a replacement for a competitor's drive which went dead immediate after starting a format in Windows. This drive hooked up, formatted, and was usable immediately. There was a firmware update available which I applied, also straightforward.Now about the "but...". I received this Dec 3rd and it is Dec 29th now. I use an app named Drive Snapshot for backing up my drives and today I noticed 2 warnings:2 sectors need more than 200ms to read28 sectors need more than 100ms to readOn mechanical drives, this is a sign the drive is nearing the end of its life. For an SSD I assume this is a bad sign as well although WD's SSD Dashboard does not report any issue in its diagnostics.If I see this worsening on future backups, or if the drive fails, I will update this review. If price is not a consideration, maybe go with another brand. I've had a Samsung EVO 860 for a few years now no issues.Update 2023-11-17: Drive died, CRC errors, could not format or clean. Not even a year of occasional use. I purchased 2 of these, went to use the second one not yet opened and also dead. Had to restore my backup to an old Samsung 860 Evo I previously used in another computer.I'll avoid WD SSDs now, since I never got to use the other drive I bought for backup. Seems just age of a year is enough for them to die, in use or not.