Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A

I finally upgraded my Raspberry Pis external drive to an SSD. The speed and the extra capacity on this thing are great, but they come with a price... 1.6A power draw! What??? The old spinning drive it replaced required 0.6A. The Raspberry Pi 4 can supply 1.2A. I had to purchase an externally powered SATA-to-USB3 adapter to get it to work with the Pi. Other than that debacle, its a nice upgrade in storage.

Noticeably fast than my older drive. I need more more next raid build!

WD Reds are made for Network Array Storage solutions (in other words, ones that plug into your wireless router), so they are meant to be specifically fast under high loads. This is an interesting form factor as the M2 emphasizes compactness over mass use. There are a couple of routers out there that accept M2s natively (almost all introduced in the last year), but there are easy M2 to SATA adapters out there. Using one, I hooked this drive up to my router and then made it a media center with multiple devices accessing the drive for media transmission over the wireless. Because this is manufactured to be in a NAS, this drive takes parallel reading thread load very well, and I could stream data for four devices at 4k stream loads without any degradation from the wireless or extensive caching on my devices. The read and writes were at 90% of the advertised features if parallel, in opposition (so one device reads and another one writes), this drops to 40% of the read theoretical maximum and 50% of the write maximum, so there is still some work that can be done on these drives for queue efficiency, but I think this is more a firmware concern than a hardware limitation. While you can use this directly in your devices, this would be overkill and the Blue or Green would probably be better for most systems at better pricing. As a standard drive though, this is more comparable to WDs Black series in terms of throughput. I highly recommend this drive if you do have an M2 native NAS device or if you are willing to put in the SATA adapter. This drive will perform very well under major thread load.

Excelente producto muy rápido buena calidad y capacidad de almacenamiento

Good product

Exactly what you would expect from a WD nvme drive. Hoping the red line has great always on longevity as this is now the OS drive in a home server.

This was really easy to install. Yes, I am an IT guy and used other 3rd-party software to clone the smaller SSD to this larger, 1TB version. Took less than 30 minutes to do this! Gotta love living in 2020! :-D

I have this running 24-7 in my NAS server as a cache drive and have not had a single issue for the last 2 months I’ve owned it. Recommended for server use

As you might know, wd color codes their drives for the use case they are designed for. Reds are for network attached storage devices like drobo and professional gear, green for power efficiency, black for raw performance, and blue for lower-cost all-around everyday use. That is the market that this device is geared toward, and if you are upgrading from a standard spinning disk, building a new office computer, upgrading a laptop, or setting up a lower cost gaming rig, this is a perfect storage device for you.This drive features the m.2 connector which is a card edge style connection that many laptops and some desktop motherboards have. You should carefully examine your owner?€™s manual to verify that this is compatible. This particular drive uses the sata interface just like standard hard drives do, unlike the faster pci-e interface that the pricier drives will have. M.2 cards are keyed in a definite way to ensure that the proper features are available on the laptop or motherboard you are connecting to. This one has both the b and m key which allow it to fit in most m.2 connectors. You can read more here. They as well indicate their width and length in their specifications: this one is a 2280 model which means 22mm ide, and 80mm long. Again, verify your motherboard or laptop support this length.If your particular desktop motherboard doesn?€™t have a m.2 connector, or like mine it is already used, you can add this device by purchasing a low-cost adapter. These merely allow for converting voltage and connectors and do not affect speed. With the adapter, you can connect this drive using standard sata and power connections used on desktop pcs. The one pictured is ngff m.2 ssd to 22-pin sata iii converter adapter and it worked very well for me and came with all the hardware needed for installation (and even a convenient screwdriver), all for less than $10. One of the benefits of doing this as opposed to buying an ssd that already has these connectors is that you can fit the drive in custom spaces in your case. In my system, i was able to add the drive between the drive cage and the case cover since i have no room for extra drives.On the box, this drive promises 560mb read speed, and 530mb write speed. Using crystaldiskmark, which is my go-to drive performance testing tool, you can see that it easily meets its specifications for sequential performance.Compared to a basic spinning disk, i hope you will see the performance difference:if you are used to spinning disks on your pc, you will be astounded. Your system will start fast and programs will load quickly. This is one of the most cost-effective upgrades you can make to a desktop or laptop.This disk doesn?€™t come with any cloning software to get you upgraded, but you can easily use acronis true image to get your existing drive flawlessly copied to your new drive. You just connect the new drive with your old one still in place, start true image, click clone, and follow the easy instructions. Some ssds come with a reduced feature version of acronis or similar to do this cloning, but you?€™ll have to supply your own with this one. Other options include clonezilla, which is completely free, but it has a higher learning curve. Of course, if you are building a computer from scratch or don?€™t mind to reinstall your operating system, this is not a big deal.For the price, this is a great drive. If you are looking to build a high-performance gaming or video editing rig and want the best that state of the art technology can provide, you should consider a pci-e solid state drive, which can easily get 4x or more the performance of one of these drives but will cost you more. However, if you are looking for great performance, a good price, compatibility with laptops and motherboards that only support sata m.2 and not pci-e m.2, this is a winner

I always purchase these WD Red because of the speed and durability.