I posted one of the earlier and very negative reviews of the SA510 drive. And it was a dog, no mistake. At some point in 2023 WD posted new firmware for the drive. With that firmware installed the drive performs well, as you would expect a middle of the road SATA III SSD to behave.

Was the cheapest 1TB SATA SSD I could find.

Requires a firmware update in order to be stable and not die.

I've had this drive for over 18 months. Original issue was the entire PC would freeze overnight. I took it out of service for a couple of days. PC was stable.Didn't bother putting it back in until I checked for any firmware updates. There was one. I applied it. I haven't had trouble since. PC runs stable 24x7.

Any moment can be died. ALL ssd WD Blue have timer to broken, but it's happened much early... I lost many important data...

Never buy ssd Western Digital

Got 6 of these installed in my pc, 3 are over 4 years old, no issues, 2 are about 1 year old now, no issues, and 1 is less than 6 months old, no issues. About to install 1 in my xbox one to upgrade it, gonna be no issues....

Fast and easy to install.

Used for a very short period of time as a backup drive. Failed within a handful of uses less than 20 hours. Upon research it seems everyone has problems with these drives.

There is no way I could recommend this product.

The box looks nice

I've purchased 8 ~ 10 of these units, and every single one has died within a year. A new and happy Samsung SSD owner was born.

Easy to install and get suckered into placing your data on

We purchased 72 WD Red Pro Nas drives a few years ago for several distributed storage units in multiple sites and had almost every drive suddenly suffer a complete controller failure within 2 months of each other after 3 years + a day of use. It was statistically impossible to have that many random failures across completely separate sites, servicing and environments. We discovered and ultimately joined a class action suit against WD for this problem as it was a global phenomena (Google WD class action) and received a whole $6 in compensation for each $400 drive. Mechanically the units were fine, WD just suddenly had the controllers vaporize all data access and lockout.

This looks like a new SSD version of the same (soon to be class action lawsuit) WD planned obsolescence tactic. Stay away from Western Digital and let them die the organizational death they deserve.

It had nice speed and throughput until....

Like so many other folks here, My drive died one day, out of the blue.

With so many people experiencing this Sudden SSD Death it's probably better to steer clear.

With all the bad reviews I am wondering if mine will fail, but have had zero problems in five months.

Nothing

Failure on 2nd reboot.

I have installed so many of these drives only to have to redo everything, Western Digital will not see me buy anymore SSD drives in the future. The absolute worst drives I have ever come across.