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title: "Western Digital WDS500G2B0B WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD M.2 SATA, 500 GB - Black"
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# 560MB/s read speed 25% lower power draw 1.75M hours MTTF reliability Western Digital WDS500G2B0B WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD M.2 SATA, 500 GB - Black

**Brand:** western digital
**Price:** $473.02
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚡ Upgrade your speed, save your power, and secure your data like a pro!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Western Digital WDS500G2B0B WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD M.2 SATA, 500 GB - Black by western digital
- **How much does it cost?** $473.02 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## 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

- • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Built with 3D NAND tech and error correction for up to 1.75 million hours MTTF and 600 TBW endurance.
- • **Smart Drive Monitoring:** Stay in control with WD SSD Dashboard for real-time health, temperature, and capacity insights.
- • **Power-Efficient Performance:** Work longer unplugged thanks to 25% reduced active power consumption compared to previous generations.
- • **Seamless Upgrade Experience:** Plug-and-play M.2 SATA form factor designed for easy installation in desktops and laptops alike.
- • **Blazing Fast Boot & Load Times:** Experience lightning-quick system startups and app launches with up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write speeds.

## Overview

The Western Digital WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 SATA SSD delivers a perfect balance of speed, efficiency, and reliability for professional and creative users. Featuring 3D NAND technology, it offers up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write speeds, 25% lower power consumption, and robust endurance with 1.75 million hours MTTF. Ideal for high-end computing, gaming, and media tasks, this sleek internal SSD ensures faster boot times, quick app responses, and long-term data protection.

## Description

From the manufacturer Enhanced reliability 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. You can confidently upgrade your system to the WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD. Performance for high-end computing Western Digital 3D NAND technology helps enable sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s for fast boot-ups, quick application responses and rapid transfer speeds. Performance for high-end computing Western Digital 3D NAND technology helps enable sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s for fast boot-ups, quick application responses and rapid transfer speeds. High capacity 3D NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 4TB High capacity 3D NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 4TB Reliability With 1.75M hours MTTF (mean time to failure), up to 600 TBW (terabytes written), and several error correction technologies, WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSDs can help guard data for years to come. Reliability With 1.75M hours MTTF (mean time to failure), up to 600 TBW (terabytes written), and several error correction technologies, WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSDs can help guard data for years to come. Step Up Beyond SATA WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD with Heatsink Western Digital is setting the pace by providing a range of performance NVMe SSDs. You get the quality and confidence of the Western Digital brand plus the cutting-edge speed of today’s NVMe. Step up performance three times over our high-end SATA SSDs with a superior NVMe solution for high-performance and mainstream PCs. The WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD will give your system the boost you need. The WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD delivers top-tier performance for gaming. With speeds up to 3,470MB/s, the WD_BLACK SSD rivals some of the best performing drives to help give gamers a competitive edge. The WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD with heatsink is designed to help keep your drive running at peak performance for longer periods. Its sleek design helps your drive maintain optimal levels of performance. WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD See our family of portable SSDs My Passport Go MY Passport SSD WD has a portable SSD for every need. With an integrated cable, My Passport Go is the drive built to travel. Or transfer files at blazing fast speeds with My Passport SSD. The My Passport Go portable drive fits right into your on-the-go life. Small and light with a built-in cable for convenience, this durable SSD fits in your pocket for wherever you go next. With My Passport SSD, you get the best of both worlds. It’s incredibly small. But it holds up to 2TB. It’s blazingly fast. Up to 540 MB/s. Yet with a sleek, shock-proof design.

Review: Upgrading a system disk was very easy with a bit of know-how - I have a HP Envy X360 15XXXX which came with a 128 M.2 SATA SSD (C:) with the system drive on and a standard 1TB 2.5" SATA drive (D:). I initially configured it so that the bulk of installed app files went to D: drive with only the essential ones going to C: drive. However, two and a half years on and C: was quite full. I decided to go for I purchased the 500GB M.2 version of this drive, along with a Sabrant M.2 SSD 2.5inch SATA III Aluminium enclosure adapter (EC-M25A). I already had a WAV Link dual bay SATA III disk cloner which will also act an external drive bay. I downloaded a free version of AOMEI Backupper for copying. For managing the disk, I used two built in utilities - Windows Powershell - needed to remove partitions. Windows Disk Management (Found under computer management in Control Panel). This is used firstly to mount the new disk and give it a drive letter. I suspect some who reported the disk DOA failed to do this. Also for managing the partition sizes. I proceeded as follows: 1. Having created recovery disks, the recovery partition was obsolete as it is a one-time deal creating the media. I used HP recovery manager to delete the partition - except it doesn't, it just deletes the data. 2. I used Powershell to delete the partition and there are instructions here if you don't know how to do it https://www.windowscentral.com/how-delete-drive-partition-windows-10 3. I inserted the new drive into the Sabrant adaptor, placed it in a bay of the WAV Link SATA bays and connected it to the USB 3 port. (There us a USB-C version of the adaptor to connect directly to a USB C port if you don't have a dive bay) 4. The drive is not detected in Windows until it has been mounted, so I opened Disk Management > Storage and found the unmounted drive. I right clicked and used the wizard to do a basic mount and assign it F: Drive. 5. I opened AOMEI Backupper and selected the clone option from the left-hand side. I selected the Disk Clone option from the bottom row. 6. On the next screen, I selected Disk 0 - the one with Windows on - as the source disk. 7. On the next screen, I selected Disk 2 - the new disk and the destination. Hit OK and it took less than 10 minutes to clone. 8. I then opened Disk Management and found the cloned volume at 118GB with around 350 GB of unallocated disk. 9. I right clicked on the cloned windows partition and selected 'Extend Volume' and allocated the maximum available space and the new window volume increased to 465GB. I removed it from the adaptor. 10. I turned of the Laptop, removed the rear cover and disconnected the battery by removing all the screws and lifting out. 11. I then located the current disk, removed the screw and replaced it with the cloned disk. 12. I reconnected the battery, replaced the cover and booted up the machine. There was a pause and a message as the BIOS had detected the hardware change. It then rebooted through to windows and everything looked hunky-dory. 13. The I ran all major applications and everything was sweet. It was as if I had done nothing, except the was an appreciable increase in speed, especially on boot up. and Windows hello was working great every time - it had started to hang and drop to PIN access. The disk has been sweet since Monday (now Thursday) and I am considering up grading the D: to an SSD as well. So far - very happy. I am of course keeping the Old disk safe . . . . just in case!
Review: WD Blue 500Gb M.2 quick review. - Bought this SSD (500Gb M.2 Blue) to upgrade a new laptop I had bought, a HP Gaming 15 which only came with a 1tb mechanical drive and was sluggish in Windows, but otherwise the specs were great for a low end gaming laptop. (I5 8300h, 16gb Ram, GTX1050Ti £600 US to UK import). Installation was a breeze, and after booting to the drive and installing the OS the machines responsiveness has increased exponentially. The machine went from 1m15s boot time to around 8s. Windows and apps now open instantly where as from the 1tb mechanical drive it could sometimes take 3-5 seconds to open certain windows or apps. This drive series (Blue) is a great mid range, mid price product designed more towards faster random read/write performance than the WD Green series which is more designed towards power saving and efficiency. Both have similar large file transfer speeds but the Blue edition have much quicker random read/write speeds which is more beneficial in an OS environment. If you need balls to the wall performance then the Black series is the one to go for, albeit with an increased price tag. These current series of blue M.2 drives have also just been replaced with newer quicker line of products carrying the same product names, but again at an increased cost. For price / performance these Blue series drives hit the sweet spot especially for boot drives where you'll be storing your operating system.

## Features

- Uses 3D NAND technology not only for higher capacities (up to 2TB) than the previous generation WD Blue SSDs, but also to help reduce cell-to-cell interference for enhanced reliability.
- Offering improved endurance, a WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD features an active power draw up to 25% lower2 than previous generations of WD Blue SSDs
- For high-end computing applications like gaming, HD media playback, or creative software
- An SSD is designed with no moving parts to help protect against data loss if it is accidentally bumped or dropped
- Monitor your drive’s available capacity, operating temperatures, SMART attributes and more with the WD SSD Dashboard. Acronis True Image WD Edition software

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B073SBX6TY |
| Best Sellers Rank | 38,151 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 190 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Box Contents | WD WDS500G2B0B 500GB Blue 3D M.2 2280 SATA III SSD |
| Brand | Western Digital |
| Brand Name | Western Digital |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 2 |
| Color | Blue - High Performance |
| Compatible Devices | Desktop |
| Connectivity technology | SATA |
| Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 21,637 Reviews |
| Data Transfer Rate | 750 Megabits Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 500 GB |
| Digital storage capacity | 500 GB |
| EU Spare Part Availability Duration | 2 Years |
| Enclosure Material | polyimide |
| Form Factor | M.2 |
| Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 1 RPM |
| Hard disk form factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard disk interface | Serial ATA |
| Hard-Drive Size | 500 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Item Type Name | Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD, 500GB |
| Item Weight | 0.39 Ounces |
| Manufacturer | Western Digital |
| Manufacturer Part Number | WDS500G2B0B |
| Media Speed | 530MB/s |
| Model Name | WDS500G2B0B WD BLUE 3D NAND SATA SSD |
| Model Number | WDS500G2B0B |
| Network Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Product Features | Portable |
| Product Warranty | 3 year limited warranty |
| Read Speed | 560 Megabytes Per Second |
| Special feature | Portable |
| Specific Uses For Product | Gaming |
| UPC | 718037856292 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 count |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Western Digital
- **Colour:** Blue - High Performance
- **Compatible devices:** Desktop
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 1 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard disk form factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** Shock Resistant

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## Available Options

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Can this be used to replace a liton cv8-8e 256 drive currently in a huawei matebook d model number kpl-w0x**
A: Don’t think so, the western digital has a 2280 form factor, that is 22mm wide by 80mm long. I suggest you input your details into crucial.com and they will suggest a compatible alternative.

**Q: How is this fitted? I have a minix pc with m2 ssd support (it says on the box), but where does it plug in?**
A: If your motherboard support it, there should be a short slot on the board that is the height of the WD M.2 card. There should also be a small screw on the motherboard that is the distance of the cards length for the slot. You need to undo the screw and then plug the card into the slot, finally put the screw back to stop the card from potentially falling out.

**Q: Will this work with a Macbook Air 2017 and if so what adaptor does it need?**
A: Only if your MacBook has an M.2 slot - this is different from the standard SATA slot for 2.5" SSD.  Check your manual to see if it has a M.2 slot.  I don't know Apple MacBooks but I suspect it doesn't.

**Q: will this fir in a lenovo legion7i 2020 model?**
A: There's no reason why not.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Upgrading a system disk was very easy with a bit of know-how
*by R***E on 4 March 2021*

I have a HP Envy X360 15XXXX which came with a 128 M.2 SATA SSD (C:) with the system drive on and a standard 1TB 2.5" SATA drive (D:). I initially configured it so that the bulk of installed app files went to D: drive with only the essential ones going to C: drive. However, two and a half years on and C: was quite full. I decided to go for I purchased the 500GB M.2 version of this drive, along with a Sabrant M.2 SSD 2.5inch SATA III Aluminium enclosure adapter (EC-M25A). I already had a WAV Link dual bay SATA III disk cloner which will also act an external drive bay. I downloaded a free version of AOMEI Backupper for copying. For managing the disk, I used two built in utilities - Windows Powershell - needed to remove partitions. Windows Disk Management (Found under computer management in Control Panel). This is used firstly to mount the new disk and give it a drive letter. I suspect some who reported the disk DOA failed to do this. Also for managing the partition sizes. I proceeded as follows: 1. Having created recovery disks, the recovery partition was obsolete as it is a one-time deal creating the media. I used HP recovery manager to delete the partition - except it doesn't, it just deletes the data. 2. I used Powershell to delete the partition and there are instructions here if you don't know how to do it https://www.windowscentral.com/how-delete-drive-partition-windows-10 3. I inserted the new drive into the Sabrant adaptor, placed it in a bay of the WAV Link SATA bays and connected it to the USB 3 port. (There us a USB-C version of the adaptor to connect directly to a USB C port if you don't have a dive bay) 4. The drive is not detected in Windows until it has been mounted, so I opened Disk Management > Storage and found the unmounted drive. I right clicked and used the wizard to do a basic mount and assign it F: Drive. 5. I opened AOMEI Backupper and selected the clone option from the left-hand side. I selected the Disk Clone option from the bottom row. 6. On the next screen, I selected Disk 0 - the one with Windows on - as the source disk. 7. On the next screen, I selected Disk 2 - the new disk and the destination. Hit OK and it took less than 10 minutes to clone. 8. I then opened Disk Management and found the cloned volume at 118GB with around 350 GB of unallocated disk. 9. I right clicked on the cloned windows partition and selected 'Extend Volume' and allocated the maximum available space and the new window volume increased to 465GB. I removed it from the adaptor. 10. I turned of the Laptop, removed the rear cover and disconnected the battery by removing all the screws and lifting out. 11. I then located the current disk, removed the screw and replaced it with the cloned disk. 12. I reconnected the battery, replaced the cover and booted up the machine. There was a pause and a message as the BIOS had detected the hardware change. It then rebooted through to windows and everything looked hunky-dory. 13. The I ran all major applications and everything was sweet. It was as if I had done nothing, except the was an appreciable increase in speed, especially on boot up. and Windows hello was working great every time - it had started to hang and drop to PIN access. The disk has been sweet since Monday (now Thursday) and I am considering up grading the D: to an SSD as well. So far - very happy. I am of course keeping the Old disk safe . . . . just in case!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WD Blue 500Gb M.2 quick review.
*by C***R on 19 April 2019*

Bought this SSD (500Gb M.2 Blue) to upgrade a new laptop I had bought, a HP Gaming 15 which only came with a 1tb mechanical drive and was sluggish in Windows, but otherwise the specs were great for a low end gaming laptop. (I5 8300h, 16gb Ram, GTX1050Ti £600 US to UK import). Installation was a breeze, and after booting to the drive and installing the OS the machines responsiveness has increased exponentially. The machine went from 1m15s boot time to around 8s. Windows and apps now open instantly where as from the 1tb mechanical drive it could sometimes take 3-5 seconds to open certain windows or apps. This drive series (Blue) is a great mid range, mid price product designed more towards faster random read/write performance than the WD Green series which is more designed towards power saving and efficiency. Both have similar large file transfer speeds but the Blue edition have much quicker random read/write speeds which is more beneficial in an OS environment. If you need balls to the wall performance then the Black series is the one to go for, albeit with an increased price tag. These current series of blue M.2 drives have also just been replaced with newer quicker line of products carrying the same product names, but again at an increased cost. For price / performance these Blue series drives hit the sweet spot especially for boot drives where you'll be storing your operating system.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works well in Argon One M.2 Raspberry Pi case
*by S***G on 15 January 2021*

These M.2 SATA 2280 drives are going out of fashion in favour of the M.2 NVMe. Alas the Raspberry Pi Argon One M.2 case needs SATA - and this one works fine. Carefully seat the drive into the case mounting. I decided to connect the base via USB A to USB A cable, format drive on Pi then use the copy memory stick to disk utility (under accessories). Then modified the boot options, shutdown, take uSD card out, reboot and now have 330MB/s speed. Slightly faster to boot relative to Samsung EVO uSD but everything feels snappier. Transferred video and stills to disk. Will.be using the Pi to render videos - cheap and acceptable performance for what I want. The card works out at 10Gb per £1 in 2021. I bought a SCSI 2 drive at work in 1991 £2000 for 2Gb. Quite an amazing bang for the buck nowadays! It does get hot but so I doubt you can use this for long in a normal Pi4 case - especially given I overclock the CPU and GPU. The M.2 case is neat BUT it does seriously degrade WiFi performance - probably a USB linked SSD might be a better option BUT careful as you may need powered USB - the Pi4 power supply doesn't supply a lot of current to USB bus and what little it does is shared. Bottom line - this M.2 SATA is working well

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