Western Digital WD Blue 1TB SATA 3 6Gb/s, M.2-2280 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive

If you haven't done much research on this form factor of drive and how they work in a computer, you should read this whole review. If you know what you want already, this is a solid performer for the ssd type m. 2 and vastly out performs sata cable drives with a good price point to boot. Western digital is an old school drive maker, and this is a good example of solid hardware.If installing one of these on a desktop is new to you...If this is a new installation in a motherboard or you're switching to a new hard drive make sure you look at your motherboard specs.There are two kinds of M.2 drives that are common right now. Mid range Motherboards handle them in different ways.This drive is an m.2 ssd sata drive, so when you put it in, it uses a sata lane in order to work. This means that it may disable a sata plug on your motherboard. If your operating system (ie windows or Linux) is installed in the sata port you just shut off by installing this your system will fail to boot and you will have to move the plug on the old drive to get the computer to load or to clone your hard drive to this one. You may have to tell your bios what the new load order is.The other kind of common m. 2 drive is a m. 2 pcie ssd. It uses a pcie lane to work. If you have something plugged into a pcie expansion slot it may turn that slot off. Some folks have network cards or video cards plugged into these slots and it could be an inconvenience. These pcie drives are faster, but honestly I doubt most people will see a big difference and the list item I am posting this review on is perfect for most uses.Look at your motherboard book or do a little research before you install one of these if you are new to them so that you know what the install is going to change in your computer.This is a really great drive, it runs well, and I love how small it is... It lost one star from me in the gaming catagory because it does not come with a heatsink. I don't think it necessarily should have one for this price but I bought a cool led one because for that application it needs to have a heat spreader.

Works as expected ,easy to installHas good support although the free version ofAcronis provided on the WD support we site failed to clone my old drive , the image was not bootableI ended up using Ubuntu terminal and the DD command to clone the drive and then after making a a bootable clone I used Aomi partition assistant 9.4 to very easily merge the unallocated space with my boot partitionMy original boot drive had several backup partitions between the boot partition and the unallocated spaceI tried both Acronis and Macrium reflect to clone the drive and to move the partitions also mini tool partition wizard and windows disk managementThey all failed to create a bootable clone image and they all failed to move and resize the boot partitionThey all turned out to. E completely uselessSo if you have trouble I suggest just using the Linux terminal in Ubuntu to clone the drive and rhent using the free version Aomi to merge the unallot space to the boot partition , it was super easy and very fastDo not get aggravated trying to use a ronid and Macrium reflect or mini partition wizard to do this they are overly complicated and do not even workSo many people recommended these to me bitbkt was just a waste of time

Very easy to use and the extra 1TB of space for my PC is very nice. Goes on discount frequently so wait until then and snag it up. Is as easy as plugging it in and going

I bought the 2950x, Corsair 760T chassis, Asus Zenith Extreme, Corsair HX1000I PSU, Thermaltake Floe Riing 360, Corsair LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4 DRAM Memory Kit, Black (CMK32GX4M2B3200C16), SamSung EVO 970 512G NVMe, WD 1TB Blue NVMe, Toshiba HD 6TB x3 from Amazon. The CPU arrived but the chip was loose inside the box. I could not install Windows 10 but was able to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. When I ran Chrome or Firefox under , the CPU kept hanging up. I changed to Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 2133MHz (PC4 17000) C13 Memory Kit - Black, thinking may be memmory compabibil;ity from what I read on Youtube, web. But the problem still occured, can not install windows, kept on hanging when runing Chrome, FireFox under Ubuntu. Changed to G.SKILL Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) AMD X370 Memory Model F4-3200C14D-16GFX. Same problem occrued. I changed the mem clock to from 1600-3200 for 3200 MHZ and 1600-2133 MHZ for 2133 MHZ and 1600-3200 for G.Skill. Same problem. Can not install Windows 10. hung when ran Chrome under Ubuntu. Hung when ran Geekbench when it run under multi core, single core is ok. I ran mem test and it was ok. Thinking the CPU was damage during ship, I ask for replacement and got one. When i installed in the system ansd ran with G.Skill, It was able to boot windows 10, Ubuntu and no problem.I had to upgrade the BIOS to 1402 for the Asus Zenith to boot with 2950x.Now it works very smoothly. It run fast!!!!,Very happy with the unit.