Customer Ratings & Reviews

Yeah, the SSDs are still more expensive than traditional HDDs. There are plenty of times when that can be advantageous though. I picked this up while it was on sale which put it even below $150 which was a great deal for 500GB. The drive was even *lighter* (in weight) than I expected; when I pulled it from the package it seemed to weigh almost nothing at all. I'm using it in a small home system that I built specifically to be quiet and power-efficient; this fits the bill very well.

Had no problem copying the old hard drive to here. Once I did and installed in the PC everything worked out fine!

This has been a great SSD upgrade for my laptop, really pleased with the speed and responsiveness of this SSD.

My computer was broken before, and now it is super fast, and I have absolutely no probs with it!

Not a bad SSD. Not top of the line, not top of the price neither.

Love the fast start up with the new hard drive, much better than the old disc drive.

replaced bad hard drive with new HD Solid State Hard Drive. Performance increased.

I installed this in a new PC for a domain workstation. Very fast

Western Digital makes good products...this one is a great drive.

Typical WD material, good price, easy to install, no issues.

Performance as expected. Brought my old laptop to life!

Performs great and has so far proven to be reliable

I replaced a 7200 HITACHI laptop HDD. Now windows boots under 30 seconds. I cloned the disk using Acronis downloaded from WD site.

I cloned my Hard disk using WD software. Works great with my 7 year old Lenovo T430

WD hard drives have always performed for years. I've used Seagate, Quantum, and others Western Digital has had better lifespan.

Purchased as a gift for my father. He loves the Hard Drive and was able to utilize it on his desktop

This ssd made my computer run and start up so much faster and it is awesome!

It's to early to say... but as of now it's really nice

This product is very good and I recommend everyone

I installed this in my sluggish Sony after cloning the existing 5400rpm drive using FREE Macrium Reflect software. (You can also go to the WD website to download Acronis WD version for cloning and the WD SSD dashboard software.) . The drive ships with no spacer, screws, software or instructions for installation and you will need a USB 3.0 to SATA cable or enclosure to clone your existing drive to the SSD. Speed estimates up to 550mb/s are optimistic. I was able to get in the 450-480 range though for read/write. For the price, this is a good drive. It made my old laptop 'new' again without any boost in memory or other adjustments. I now have a i5, 1.6Ghz, 8GB memory with a SSD running Windows 8.1 that boots in less than 20 seconds and speeds through everything from opening programs to streaming video from Kodi. Overall, I'm pleased with this drive. It's great for an upgrade on a budget, and general computing use. Those who have never used a SSD drive before will be blown away by what a vast improvement it is over the traditional hard drives. FYI... SSDs do not need to be defragmented. In fact, that will reduce the drive's lifespan so don't do it.