Western Digital 4TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD Solid State Drive - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS400T2R0A

PRICING NOTE: I purchased mine for well under $100 on amazon warehouse and to me, that was about the MAX you should ever pay for a 1tb SSD at the time and I streamline this as true for NVME drives that have now replaced SSD 2.5". Look for the specs of a drive and max speeds that are consistent, before parting with money and of course, research lifespan on average because this is the most important part of your computer - if this fails, you lose all your work.... if the rest of the machine fails, not a problem, you can put this drive in an external box and link it to another computer to rescue your work and lifetime documents and photos and videos etc. within minutes. as far as 2.5" SSD GO ... Western Digital RED and "Crucial MX SERIES" are by far the best, followed by the SANDISK RANGE. For anyone upgrading a really old computer and does not need super duper speed, teamgroup and Silicon power make SOLID drives that seem to work forever. I have hundreds of customers and people I have helped and several years have passed with the above brands and ZERO feedback of failures.I had this originally in a gaming laptop for video work for about 4 months, then I put it in another laptop for a few months whilst I was deciding whether to keep the 2nd laptop... for the last 4 months or so, it has been in my 27" retina 4k Apple Mac late 2015 computer (with an additional 3.5" to 2.5" standard PC bracket cradle) and I set this SSD up in to 2 partitions, so I just power on the mac and hold the ALT key on my keyboard (left of space) and then I get an option to boot the WINDOWS 10 partition or the MAC OS partition - instead of using Macs "bootcamp" I find my way of setting things up a lot FASTER in daily operations and part of that speed is this excellent old Western Digital RED 2.5" SSD.

29 May 2023: A review for two purchased: Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm. I've had them a couple of months. No problems. Got them to replace two Samsung 870EVO's that died in a little less than 2 years. Samsung has some real problems and it took over 3 months to get replacements under warranty from Samsung. Right after they failed, I switched to these Western Digital's because I have used WD drives since 1994 and in my little life in my little home WD drives have been stellar performers. I have to say that all my past experience with WD has been with spinning platters. I hope these solid state drives are also reliable. Breakneck speeds don't impress me much. I just love good performance for a long, long time. So...the "RED" line from WD is supposed to be exactly that--constant running over the long haul in devices. Yep. I hope that is true. WD, do it to me again. I need you.

I replaced my regular hdd's in my NAS with 4 of these 4tb drives. Performance boost was great. Read/write speeds are great and really improved my Plex server movie streaming capabilities. I will be buying more of these.

I decided to switch my old HDD to a more compact SSD (Western Digital Blue) about two years ago. The transition went smoothly but the drive ended up crashing after about 6 month with no way to recover any data. Luckily I maintain full backups. Western Digital honored their replacement warranty and ended up sending me a Red SSD to replace the blue. The Red has been running perfectly ever since. I ended up upgrading several other PCs to Red with no issues so far whereas other Blue have giving me multiple read/write issues and finally crashing.I typically buy the 1TB Red version, but I'm annoyed to find them more difficult to find over the past 6 months and the price almost doubling.

I bought two 4TB SSD WD NAS rated drives for my Synology dual drive NAS. The NAS automatically formatted the drives, and they were usable within a few hours. My NAS went from being disturbingly noisy to very quiet instantly and now I don't even know it there on my desk next to me. It now holds the 1000s of photos that I digitized and all my eDocs and other digital information (ex., digital recordings, videos, movies, eBooks, etc.) that I accumulated, but still need. Everything is available instantly from anywhere, securely. It also allows me to selectively share items on my NAS with family and friends.