Western Digital 250GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 550 MB/s - WDS250G2B0A

My OS is windows 7-64, my hardware is HP laptop. I am very pleased with this drive. $55 with prime at the time of this writing. Previously I had purchased another brand here at Amazon that had very high reviews, but the drive was DOA. I am new to ssd's so my first impression was concerning. I never had a bad experience with any hdd's, and my first ssd experience had me second guessing my decision to convert. I figured if I am gonna do this right, I better stick with a major name brand. There are other brands like Samsung and PNY that have great reviews, but WD had never failed me in the past so I went that direction. Packaging never guarantees quality, but I was impressed. WD does have an awesome website, with faq's answers for practically any inquiry you might dream up. for the blue 3d 250 ssd, WD includes a 5 yr warranty. A free Acronis cloning software download is also available with your purchase. I downloaded it but it wasn't quite as easy to use as I felt it should be. I found another free cloning software on the web, "backupper" with great reviews and intuitive user screens. It downloaded quickly, was easy to use, and appears to have made a flawless clone of my then current hdd. I must point out I never pre formatted the new ssd drive, and I never entered bios before or after the ssd clone or install. I don't know if this is due to the software I chose, or the drive, but I am happy it was so effortless. The only noticeable difference of this new ssd and my old hdd is speed. The ssd has brought new life to my laptop, helping me delay the cost of replacement.The increase in speed is nice, and #1 reason I did this, the fact that my original hdd will now serve as my reliable backup, is a bonus.I want to point out that I am not endorsing any particular cloning software, everybody has different likes and needs, but some cloning softwares are easier to use than others, so look around a bit. Remember the K.I.S.S. principle. Do your homework, but definitely give an ssd a try, I think you'll be happy you did.

I have used several of these WD Blue SSD drives in my own system as well as in other system builds I do for my customers. They are reliable, fast, and easy to maintain.There are other drives out there that are faster, of course. The Samsung Evo drives come to mind. However, SSD drives in general are almost always better then standard HDDs, and at the smaller price point, the Western Digital Blue SSD drives are a great option without taking a huge hit in performance.I recently used this 250gb drive in a gaming build I put together for a customer. The Windows 10 boot time is user 35 seconds with 8GB of ram installed on a Ryzen 5 2600 system. The boot times of course will vary depending on the other system specs, but this drive is very fast.I personally use a 2TB M.2 version of this drive, along with a 2TB 2.5 SATA version of this drive on my own build for gaming and video editing. Both of them have been working fantastic. I did have to RMA the 2.5 version at one point, but that was due to the computer's power supply issue. WD's customer service on the RMA was easy to deal with, and I had no issues getting a replacement drive. It did take a couple weeks, but shipping from the east coast the west coast does take some time.I've been a Western Digital user for over 10 years now, and their drives never disappoint. I've used green, red, blue, and black drive models in my own systems, and in system builds I do for my customers, and the drives never give me any issues. Highly recommend them.

Upgraded from a old 1TB HDD, decided not to clone my win 7 home to it, instead I used win 7 pro.Note none of this is the hard drive fault but I spent like 6 hours swapping hard drives and downloading drivers, trying hunting down all my drivers for my USB controller, Video card, Bluetooth/WiFi card, and like 3 hours of that was windows "updates"after its all said and done PC boots in under 10 seconds, Lost all the HP/Win 7 home bloat ware, just a nice bare os, runs incredibly fasttanks 7.9 on windows performance indexIf you computer doesn't have a 2.5" bay you better buy the Inateck ST1002S 2"x2.5" SSD to 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive Mounting Kit Bracket or similar to go with this or you will not have a way to mount it or run power to it, also this drive DOES NOT come with screws, but western digital doesn't say it does so I won't gives them a 1 star review over something this minorHope this helps, If I have any problems Ill update this post, almost want to buy another pair and run raid 0 with them :)

Worked perfectly and no way you will beat the price.Very satisfied!

SSD arrived on time, was easy to install but to program it took me about 3 to 4 hours and had to call Tech Support. No instructions come with the SSD you have to go online and that's not much help either. Had to go to YouTube to figure it out. Works well though and a lot faster than my old hard drive. Tech support will contact you repeatedly for this and that but when you as them a question, no response otherwise I would give it 5 stars. Installed a Samsung SSD a couple years ago and it was a breeze, complete instructions, disk etc and wonderful website. I should have bought another Samsung but this one was in stock and I didn't have to wait a week. Looking back I should have waited the week.