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alaTest has collected and analyzed 13 reviews of Western Digital WDS500G1B0B. The average rating for this product is 4.5/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. People are impressed by the reliability. The size also gets good feedback, but there are some mixed comments about the price.
usability, size, reliability
We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Western Digital WDS500G1B0B is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 94/100 = Excellent quality.
Expert review by : Sean Webster (tomshardware.co.uk)
Big bulky SSDs are headed to a NAS near you
High-capacity, up to 4TB ; Power efficient ; Robust endurance ; Competitive performance ; 5-year warranty
SSD price-per-GB is high compared to HDD for NAS usage
WD’s Red SA500 NAS SSD is a direct response to Seagate’s IronWolf 110, but with its lower cost-per-GB, it is a much better value for those who don’t need extreme write endurance. WD’s Red SA500 is robust enough for most users and is significantly...
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Coming from traditional hard disk to solid state transformed my system. From boot time to accessing applications, the whole experience is much faster.
Would have been nice if the drive came with the spacer which goes underneath the drive once its screwed into place.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Painless install,quick format and ready to go. Fast,and does exactly what it says on the tin :)
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
No instruction
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Very speedy. Benchmarked this device compared to two Kingston 250Gb SATA SSDs on a RAID 0. Although the Kingstons outperformed this drive on sequential RW operations, this drive was twice as fast at random R/W operations
Not the drives fault, but computer BIOS can be confusing to set up. Just need to remember that this is a SATA drive, not an NVMe drive.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Faster boot, and better case airflow. Also very easy to install.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Outstanding value, and good performance.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Small and fast.
Still expensive storage.
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
fiddly to fit laptop didn't recognise it initially - required some manipulation
Consumer review (reevoo.com)
Works perfectly, good quality
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