Reliability Mechanical Vs Solid State Hard Drives

I am IT guy who replaces mechanical hard drives with solid state hard drives approximately once per week. This is a great brand, with a good product at a great price. If you want to compare SSDs, look for the highest number of Input / Output Per Second (IOPs) to best judge performance. Read/write speed is not a good indicator. I would rate the drive as a B+, which is more great for most uses.

I've always found Western Digital products to be trustworthy, from old school mechanical drives to solid state, and this SSD is no exception. Great capacity and good performance at this price point, all from a known, quality manufacturer.

Compared to old Hard drive which was not solid state, the new drive respond time is noticeable. Did not want to change drives because thought I was wasting money $243. but after changing drives glad I did. Ron I

I have been using WD hard drives for many years always rock solid reliability and decent quality drives

I used this drive to clone a laptop hard drive to a solid state drive. Worked well.

The best mechanical hard drive I had ever used.

Cost effective cable for migrating my old hard drive to new solid state drive.

Check to see if your use case can use the bandwidth before investing. Mechanical hard drives can't operate at 10Gbps even at higher read rate in RAID configuration. Synology should of include a 2.5Gbps port on their NAD in the first place as it's perfect for home use cases, but they required this purchase to unlocked higher performance, a bit cheap imo, but I knew this going in. Otherwise the card is as Plug and Play as PNP going to get. It just works.

I bought three of these SSD's as Crucial MX500 is a good SSD. I use them to replace existing mechanical Hard Drives, to make the access faster and a HHD is only good for 5 to 6 years - your data is important. Delivery to Canada was timely.

As a PC builder and a hard core data archiver. I have purchased several of these WD blue 2.5 SSD drives over the last 5 years. Never had any issues with them. I purchased 2 of these 4TB ones to replace slower mechanical drives in my desktop as well as a 2tb one to add to my laptop. These are not the fastest SSD drives out there of course, but they are a HUGE step up over any 7200rpm mechanical drive. These are plenty fast for most of your regular tasks or even 4k video playback/editing. We use them in multi tracking sessions with a Digital Audio Work station where we record several uncompressed WAV files at a time, and the drive never breaks a sweat. Great mid grade SSDs for anyone looking to upgrade their mechanical drives HDDs.