Review on Blue NAND 500GB SSD WDS500G2B0A by Brett Tierney

I bought this 1TB WD Blue SSD to replace a hard drive which I thought was the likely cause of some of the data corruption found on a High-end desktop can be seen. I also had to purchase a SATA III cable and 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bracket to fit the desktop bay as they are not included with the drive. The disk didn't come with any helpful instructions, but this procedure worked: 1. Power off2. Leave the original disk as is; Connect the new drive to a power source and an unused SATA connector on the motherboard3. Turn on the power. OK, but the new drive doesn't show up in My Computer4. Start the Acronis software, which is available for free from the WDa website. Select "Clone Disk" and choose automatic mode. It identified the old and the new disk c. It ran about 1.5 hours and cloned the original hard drive including all partitions and 500GB of data. The computer turned off automatically5. Disconnect the power and SATA cables from the old drive6. Connect the new drive to the SATA port on the motherboard where the old drive 7 was. Included. It loaded well. Everything seems fine. Loading and opening programs is about 5 times faster than the original spinning disk drive. I can't judge long-term reliability, but my first impression is excellent.