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product_id: 45518607
title: "500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5\"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0A, Solid State Drive"
brand: "western digital"
price: "963 Lei"
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# Up to 560MB/s read speed 25% lower power draw 1.75M hours MTTF reliability 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0A, Solid State Drive

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** 963 Lei
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Upgrade your workflow with speed and stamina — don’t get left behind!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS500G2B0A, Solid State Drive by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** 963 Lei with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ro](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/45518607-500gb-wd-blue-3d-nand-internal-pc-ssd-sata-iii)

## Best For

- western digital enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted western digital brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Smart Data Management:** Free WD software lets you monitor drive health, clone your old drive, and back up effortlessly.
- • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Industry-leading 1.75 million hours mean time to failure and up to 600TB written for peace of mind.
- • **Seamless Compatibility:** WD F.I.T. Lab certified to work flawlessly with a wide range of laptops and desktops.
- • **Energy-Efficient Design:** Work longer unplugged thanks to 25% lower active power consumption than previous generations.
- • **Blazing Fast Performance:** Experience lightning-quick boot and load times with up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write speeds.

## Overview

The Western Digital 500GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD delivers a powerful SATA III 6 Gb/s interface with sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and write speeds up to 530MB/s. Featuring 3D NAND technology, it offers enhanced reliability with a 1.75 million hour MTTF and up to 600TBW endurance. Its energy-efficient design reduces power draw by up to 25%, extending laptop battery life. Certified by WD F.I.T. Lab for broad compatibility, it includes free software for drive monitoring, cloning, and backup, making it an ideal upgrade for professionals seeking faster, more reliable storage.

## Description

The Western Digital Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD utilizes 3D NAND technology for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. Featuring an active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of Western Digital Blue SSDs, you’re able to work longer before recharging your laptop, while sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s give the speed you want for your most demanding computing applications. Combined with the free. you can confidently upgrade your system to the Western Digital Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. |As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. | Active power draws are up to 25% lower during sequential reads than previous generations of Western Digital Blue SSD at the 500GB capacity point. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.Update operating systems to the most current version before installation of this product.

Review: Excellent SSD, blazing fast, instructions could be better. - Great upgrade for my Win7 Lenovo Thinkpad E530-C, which with a standard 260GB hard drive. It has only 4GB RAM and was glacially slow trying to run Office 2016, backups, Windows updates, etc. First the good news: with SSD installed, I'm seeing the following performance gains: Boot up: <1 minute, down from 3-4 minutes. Shut down: 30 seconds, down from 3-4 minutes, more if Windows updates were installing. Start MS Word: 5 seconds, down from 2 minutes Start MS Excel: 5 seconds, down from 1+ minutes Start MS Access: 5 seconds, down from 2+ minutes Start MS Outlook: 7 seconds + mail server sync, down from 2+ minutes Photos: Instant load of 4-6 MB photo files, 30-150 MB video clips in Windows Live Photo Gallery - using Next/Prev arrow controls is instantaneous also. Stream video from Youtube, desertcart Prime, etc. also load and start noticeably quicker, I assume due to much faster buffering. Windows updates: These download and install in about 20% of the time with the SSD. One day after install, I went to shutdown and it downloaded and started to install 8 Win updates. Both download and install after next startup took only a minute or two. Now the downside: Cloning HDD to the SSD took much longer and was more confusing than it should have been, mostly due to rather sketchy instructions on WD site re the Acronis True Image WD Edition software provide for cloning. For some reason, you can't install the ATI WD version unless you already have a WD or Sandisk storage device attached--otherwise it stops the install. Fortunately I had a blank Sandisk Cruzer USB drive handy -- stuck one in and voila, ATI installed. ATI has two clone modes--automatic (recommended) and manual. Automatic clones all your existing partitions, and if you're installing an SSD with more capacity than your old HDD--I was adding a 500GB SSD vs my old 260GB--the automatic option proportionately increases all HDD partitions when cloning. I did not want my 30 GB Recovery partition blowing up to over 60 GB, so I went back and selected the manual cloning option, which allowed me to specify just enough space for the remaining files. It also let me move the recovery partition to the "end" of the partition sequence on the disk, which allowed the C: partition, where all the files go, to use all the newly available space. My C drive went from about 228 GB to 466 GB with the SSD. Awesome. Time to prep and clone the drive: 3.5 hours to do a total Windows backup to external HDD 1+ hours fiddling with the Acronis install 3.5 hours to clone the drive <1 hour to open PC, remove HDD, install SSD, close PC. Total time: between 8.5 and 9.0 hours, most of it just waiting for stuff to happen. Your time may vary...I'm no pc hardware expert, although I know a bit and can follow instructions. The Acronis software interface is a little light on instructions and status updates both while setting up the clone and while cloning was proceeding. For example, the cloning status screen has a field for estimated time remaining, but it said "Estimating time remaining" when the cloning began, and it never updated with an actual time remaining. From what I've heard from others who've done SSD cloning and installs using other brands, my experience was typical. At least the WD SDD was recognized at the first boot after installation. I was forewarned to have another PC or tablet handy to access the web to get help if there was any incompatibility issue or BIOS problem. Most users would have to clone using a USB-to-SATA cable (I bought this one: https://www.desertcart.com/gp/product/B00HJZJI84/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Most laptops have at least one USB 3 port--be sure to use that to speed the cloning up a bit. SSD is a great way to boost performance in an older laptop. This WD Blue is highly rated both on desertcart and other sites. I'm very pleased with it so far, despite the time involved in setting it up--it's well worth the trouble.
Review: You don't need to buy a new PC. Works with Win7 - You can damn sure install windows 7!!! Don't let anyone fool you!!! You just can't clone. You have to do a fresh install of windows 7 and it works fine. WD SSD's have TRIM support, amungst other things. It pretty much means you can run win 7 off of their SSD's. I've had it installed for over a month and so far so good. Pc used for video and audio editing/recording. Also used for gaming.. I have an hp p-1010 desktop that I bought in 2011 for 800$ brand new. I upgraded to an AMD Phenom X6 1065T six core 2.9ghz, A 2gb EVGA Nvidia GeForce gtx 750 Ti and 4x8gb RAM sticks. It's a great pc, I've rarely had a problem, if at all and if so it was probably my fault. It runs smoothly to this day, Startup time is about 2 minutes and the HDD I have now (500gb WD) runs very slow at only 50 some mgbs read/write. But It runs mostly any game as of 2016 anything newer usually maxes out my system but will still run it. I just don't like maxing out my system for hours while I play a game. Anyway I decided to finally upgrade. Bought the 500gb Solid State Drive to run my OS only. And I bought the 1tb for installating games/programs. I am extremely happy I did! Startup time is now about 10 seconds and my read/write speeds are significantly higher, 250mbps and could be more if my motherboard was 6gb sata. I'm not sure what mine is. Running windows 7 ultimate, the os uses all of my 32gb RAM and runs much more lighter than win 10. 10 runs heavy, at idle its around 15 to 25% while 7 runs around 5% at idle. At first I Installed windows 10 fresh because of everything I read about 7 not being able to run on an ssd. È8i%^+awww 7 ess 6 0îűInstallation of the ssd was very easy. I didn't want to switch to windows 10 but I did. And HATED it!!!! And you can't turn off windows update, which killed me lol so I did more research and found out that you actually can run win 7 on an ssd as long as said ssd supports TRIM. Still, an insane improvement. Almost instant navigation. Programs open in 2 Seconds. And my gaming experience is significantly higher, I can max out my graphics settings while gaming and it looks awesome.

## Features

- 3D NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 4TB with enhanced reliability. | As used for storage capacity, 1 terabyte (TB) = 1 trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.
- Sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s. | As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = 1 million bytes per second and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = 1 billion bits per second
- An industry leading 1.75M hours mean time to failure (MTTF) (1) and up to 600 terabytes written (TBW) (2) for enhanced reliability. | (1) MTTF = Mean Time To Failure based on internal testing using Telcordia stress part testing. (2) TBW (terabytes written) values calculated using JEDEC client workload (JESD219) and vary by product capacity
- WD F.I.T. Lab certification for compatibility with a wide range of computers.
- Free downloadable software to monitor the status of your drive and clone a drive, or backup your data
- An active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSD.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B073SBZ8YH |
| Additional Features | WD FIT Lab certification |
| Best Sellers Rank | #735 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Built-In Media | 1 SSD Drive |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 2 |
| Color | Blue |
| Compatible Devices | Laptop, Desktop, PC |
| Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 35,484 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 6 Gigabits Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 500 GB |
| Enclosure Material | 3D Nand |
| Form Factor | 2.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00718037856308, 10718037856305 |
| Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 3.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | SATA 6 GB/s |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM |
| Hard-Drive Size | 500 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Installation Type | Solid State Drive |
| Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 4"L x 2.8"W x 0.3"Th |
| Item Type Name | WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB PC SSD |
| Item Weight | 1.31 Ounces |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital |
| Media Speed | 530 MB |
| Model Name | WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES |
| Model Number | WDS500G2B0A |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Read Speed | 560 Megabytes Per Second |
| Special Feature | WD FIT Lab certification |
| Specific Uses For Product | personal, gaming, business |
| UPC | 718037856308 |
| Warranty Description | Western Digital ("WD") values your business and always attempts to provide you the very best of service. No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warra… |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Color:** Blue
- **Compatible Devices:** Laptop, Desktop, PC
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 500 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** SATA 6 GB/s
- **Installation Type:** Solid State Drive
- **Special Feature:** WD FIT Lab certification

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: ssd 3d mac early 2011 compatibility**
A: I installed this drive yesterday into Late 2011 MacBook Pro and swapped out the two 2gb RAM sticks with two 4gb RAM sticks. The new speed and performance is amazing. You will need a USB to SATA cable to connect the new SSD to your MacBook to clone the hard drive.  I downloaded freeware called Super Duper to clone drive. Then I removed ten tiny screws to access back of laptop. Four more screws hold hard drive in place and four star drive screws have to be swapped onto new SSD. Download the user guide from Apple for your model for steps and pictures of operation. The memory swap was easy, just plastic tabs holding sticks in place.

**Q: Will this work with win xp sp3?**
A: I have a Western Digital 320GB 10,000 RPM Velociraptor in my old XP machine. I keep it for offline use with the programs that I do not want to upgrade. They work fine, so there is no use in spending money on newer versions. The XP machine is old, but I built it well and it is as fast with XP as most new machines are with bloated 7 and 10. If you can't find a reasonably priced WD Velociraptor, then a WD Blue 7200 RPM drive will put new life into your old XP machine. I will keep mine until lightening, or something as sinister, destroys it, but it doesn't go online anymore.

**Q: What’s in the box drive, wires, etc...?**
A: No wires, just the 500 GB SSD.

**Q: If i use a sata to usb 3.1 cable, will this work on my xbox one s?**
A: You need a USB 3.0 SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable for 2.5 Inch SSD & HDD

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent SSD, blazing fast, instructions could be better.
*by M***. on March 13, 2019*

Great upgrade for my Win7 Lenovo Thinkpad E530-C, which with a standard 260GB hard drive. It has only 4GB RAM and was glacially slow trying to run Office 2016, backups, Windows updates, etc. First the good news: with SSD installed, I'm seeing the following performance gains: Boot up: <1 minute, down from 3-4 minutes. Shut down: 30 seconds, down from 3-4 minutes, more if Windows updates were installing. Start MS Word: 5 seconds, down from 2 minutes Start MS Excel: 5 seconds, down from 1+ minutes Start MS Access: 5 seconds, down from 2+ minutes Start MS Outlook: 7 seconds + mail server sync, down from 2+ minutes Photos: Instant load of 4-6 MB photo files, 30-150 MB video clips in Windows Live Photo Gallery - using Next/Prev arrow controls is instantaneous also. Stream video from Youtube, Amazon Prime, etc. also load and start noticeably quicker, I assume due to much faster buffering. Windows updates: These download and install in about 20% of the time with the SSD. One day after install, I went to shutdown and it downloaded and started to install 8 Win updates. Both download and install after next startup took only a minute or two. Now the downside: Cloning HDD to the SSD took much longer and was more confusing than it should have been, mostly due to rather sketchy instructions on WD site re the Acronis True Image WD Edition software provide for cloning. For some reason, you can't install the ATI WD version unless you already have a WD or Sandisk storage device attached--otherwise it stops the install. Fortunately I had a blank Sandisk Cruzer USB drive handy -- stuck one in and voila, ATI installed. ATI has two clone modes--automatic (recommended) and manual. Automatic clones all your existing partitions, and if you're installing an SSD with more capacity than your old HDD--I was adding a 500GB SSD vs my old 260GB--the automatic option proportionately increases all HDD partitions when cloning. I did not want my 30 GB Recovery partition blowing up to over 60 GB, so I went back and selected the manual cloning option, which allowed me to specify just enough space for the remaining files. It also let me move the recovery partition to the "end" of the partition sequence on the disk, which allowed the C: partition, where all the files go, to use all the newly available space. My C drive went from about 228 GB to 466 GB with the SSD. Awesome. Time to prep and clone the drive: 3.5 hours to do a total Windows backup to external HDD 1+ hours fiddling with the Acronis install 3.5 hours to clone the drive <1 hour to open PC, remove HDD, install SSD, close PC. Total time: between 8.5 and 9.0 hours, most of it just waiting for stuff to happen. Your time may vary...I'm no pc hardware expert, although I know a bit and can follow instructions. The Acronis software interface is a little light on instructions and status updates both while setting up the clone and while cloning was proceeding. For example, the cloning status screen has a field for estimated time remaining, but it said "Estimating time remaining" when the cloning began, and it never updated with an actual time remaining. From what I've heard from others who've done SSD cloning and installs using other brands, my experience was typical. At least the WD SDD was recognized at the first boot after installation. I was forewarned to have another PC or tablet handy to access the web to get help if there was any incompatibility issue or BIOS problem. Most users would have to clone using a USB-to-SATA cable (I bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HJZJI84/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Most laptops have at least one USB 3 port--be sure to use that to speed the cloning up a bit. SSD is a great way to boost performance in an older laptop. This WD Blue is highly rated both on Amazon and other sites. I'm very pleased with it so far, despite the time involved in setting it up--it's well worth the trouble.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You don't need to buy a new PC. Works with Win7
*by C***E on July 16, 2020*

You can damn sure install windows 7!!! Don't let anyone fool you!!! You just can't clone. You have to do a fresh install of windows 7 and it works fine. WD SSD's have TRIM support, amungst other things. It pretty much means you can run win 7 off of their SSD's. I've had it installed for over a month and so far so good. Pc used for video and audio editing/recording. Also used for gaming.. I have an hp p-1010 desktop that I bought in 2011 for 800$ brand new. I upgraded to an AMD Phenom X6 1065T six core 2.9ghz, A 2gb EVGA Nvidia GeForce gtx 750 Ti and 4x8gb RAM sticks. It's a great pc, I've rarely had a problem, if at all and if so it was probably my fault. It runs smoothly to this day, Startup time is about 2 minutes and the HDD I have now (500gb WD) runs very slow at only 50 some mgbs read/write. But It runs mostly any game as of 2016 anything newer usually maxes out my system but will still run it. I just don't like maxing out my system for hours while I play a game. Anyway I decided to finally upgrade. Bought the 500gb Solid State Drive to run my OS only. And I bought the 1tb for installating games/programs. I am extremely happy I did! Startup time is now about 10 seconds and my read/write speeds are significantly higher, 250mbps and could be more if my motherboard was 6gb sata. I'm not sure what mine is. Running windows 7 ultimate, the os uses all of my 32gb RAM and runs much more lighter than win 10. 10 runs heavy, at idle its around 15 to 25% while 7 runs around 5% at idle. At first I Installed windows 10 fresh because of everything I read about 7 not being able to run on an ssd. È8i%^+awww 7 ess 6 0îűInstallation of the ssd was very easy. I didn't want to switch to windows 10 but I did. And HATED it!!!! And you can't turn off windows update, which killed me lol so I did more research and found out that you actually can run win 7 on an ssd as long as said ssd supports TRIM. Still, an insane improvement. Almost instant navigation. Programs open in 2 Seconds. And my gaming experience is significantly higher, I can max out my graphics settings while gaming and it looks awesome.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy and Affordable Upgrade
*by W***O on June 20, 2019*

I opted to convert my 500gb 7200 rpm hard drive in my 5 year old Dell 3647 computer to a SSD drive. The computer was slowing down quite a bit, and I thought I'd take a chance on the drive upgrade first to see if that helped. The install was not that hard. I have a micro case, so only room for 1 hard drive. Thus I had to purchase a SATA to USB cable compatible with 2.5 inch drives. Hooked that up to my USB 3 port. Used Windows Computer Management to initialize the drive. Downloaded the free home version of Macrium Reflect to create a clone of my existing hard drive, which took a couple of hours. Since my computer had a 3.5 hard drive, I did have to buy a tray to put the SSD in. Then swapped out the old hard drive in my case for the new SSD drive, and everything booted as expected. I did combine this with a memory upgrade from 4gb to 8gb at the same time. I have to say, these two upgrades have made my computer feel and act like a new, fast computer. Amazing results. I did some benchmark tests before and after. Bottom line, for about $100, I upgraded my computer's memory and drive to SSD, and now it's amazingly fast. Boots in about 10 seconds, versus 60 seconds before. Programs launch almost instantly. Highly recommended!

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