Review on Western Digital WD Blue SATA 500GB SATA WDS500G2B0A Solid State Drive by Micha Dobrzyski ᠌

Name: Western Digital WD Blue SATA 500GB SATA WDS500G2B0A Solid State Drive
Item: Western Digital WD Blue SATA 500GB SATA WDS500G2B0A Solid State Drive
Rating: 5

May 13, 2023

Valuable purchase, nothing but pluses!

After upgrading from Windows 7 to 10. Booting the system and launching applications (especially right after booting up the OS) was excruciatingly slow. Because it was not really my pain (wife's computer), then I saved money for a long time and did not buy an SSD. But he's matured. I didn’t look for any special performance, I looked more at the brand and at survivability (I also didn’t bother too much, I saw that this disk had three times more parrots than some other one and calmed down). Well, to pay for SAMSUNG 20% more - the toad strangled. In general, the light came together like a wedge on this SSD. I've been using it for probably over a month, but not much more. The disk also does not experience any special load. However, the task was successfully solved: the brakes of Windows are gone. While satisfied.

Pros

1) Connected - works; 2) From the WD website you can download Acronis True Image (a special edition that only works if there is a disk from WD), with which I transferred Windows to a new disk without any problems.

Cons

It doesn’t pull on full-fledged shortcomings, rather nit-picking: 1) At first it seemed that the loading of the OS and the launch of applications were not very accelerated (for the sake of which everything was started), but then, it seemed, it became normal. 2) Note not to the disk itself, but to the process of transferring the OS to it. I had such a case: there are two partitions on the old HDD (except for some service ones, about which I don’t really understand). The first partition is the system partition and is smaller than the new SSD. Those. Theoretically, you can move the system to an SSD. I made a backup of the system partition using Acronis (while saving the data on the second partition), and then restored the data from this backup to the SSD. The program from Acronis correctly guessed what I wanted: made the disk bootable, created service partitions, created a system partition of the right size, and copied data to it, maybe something else I don’t know about. But I only found out about all this after the fact (when I tried to boot from a new disk and everything worked). And so it was absolutely not clear to me whether it would take off or not take off, and this made me nervous. If the program immediately wrote: "Yeah, I understand what you want, yes, I can do that, for this I will not just restore the data, but I will also do this, this and this. OK?", then I would be completely satisfied.