WD Blue 3D NAND Internal SSD 2.5 Inch SATA - 1 TB, Blue - High Performance

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Fitted this to an HP AMD A10 Quad core laptop with 8gb of ram. This machine was struggling with windows updates with it's original 1tb HDD fitted. WOW!! What a difference! Like a new machine. Turn it on and Pow! Up and running in a matter of seconds! Was minutes with the HDD. Windows updates took hours with the HDD fitted and when downloading updates, rendered the machine unusable. Not with this drive fitted though. Windows updates downloaded and installed in a matter of minutes.Right.....to the install. I did buy this with the intention of cloning the HDD over but decided to re-install windows 10 and then all my other software. For those who don't know, Microsoft do a setup media creation tool which you can use to download Windows 10. As long as you have a windows licence, you can re-install Windows using a flash drive or DVD. My laptop has a digital licence, so didnt need to enter a key code.I have quite alot of music production software on my machine so it took me a long time to log onto various websites to find out how to re-register licences etc but once I'd done this and re-installed everything, the laptop worked like a dream.This is one of the best tech purchases I've made in a long time. If you're thinking of upgrading to a SSD from a HDD drive, do it. You'll be amazed at the difference it makes.Note: You do need to know your way around a computer though. Just getting into back of the machine itself was a bit fiddly and you have to be careful not to break anything. Once I was into the machine, there was a ribbon cable installed over the top of the HDD, which i had to remove to enable me to change the drives over. I had to be very careful not to damage this when removing the HDD and then re-attaching after installing the SDD. Once the computer is re-assembled, you may possibly need to enter the computer's Bios to change the boot order and also re-install the up to date drivers and software for your machines hardware. HP have a great website where I was able to input my machine's serial number. The website then listed all the drivers and software available for my machine. Tip: Down load and install one thing at a time. This way you can make sure everything works as you install them and avoid glitches. If you're not good with computers, maybe let a local computer guy do it for you.I've put three stars for ease of install due to the fact that computers are not the easiest things to upgrade sometimes. Nothing to do with the SDD itself though.Hope this helps someone thinking of upgrading.

After a couple of years of very noisy hard disk operation on my home workstation I decided to take the plunge and replace the labouring HDD with a large capacity SSD. Prices have now fallen to the level where buying an SSD with enough capacity to comfortably house a complete O/S like Windows 10 is feasible within a limited budget.This SSD from Western Digital was well priced and came with a free copy of Acronis True Image, so that I could quickly clone the O/S and programmes from the old boot disk, without needing to change any settings or lose files (although I do urge you to do a complete backup first, onto an external drive, before starting). My HP workstation did give me a few problems with the recognition of the new drive, cured by taking out the old HDD after some annoying issues with the HP BIOS settings. But this was the HP machine's fault, not the SSD or Acronis True Image. I recommend enlisting the help of a PC savvy friend if you're not confident about all this.Anyway, after the swap of drives I now have a silent PC and one that carries out commands, opens apps, edits photos, etc., much faster than before. If you have a slow PC and can swap the hard disk, then this is the most cost-effective performance improvement you can achieve, before spending money on more memory or a faster graphics card.I did require a drive cage to install this 2.5" drive in a 5.25" bay in my PC, which came with all the screws and cables I needed, so think about that as well - Amazon sell them at low prices. The latest ultra-thin laptops make it impossible to swap storage drives so, if you think you're going to need to upgrade in future, buy one with a swappable drive accessible by the end-user. Older laptop drives are nearly always user-accessible through a small panel on the underside, or under the keyboard (YouTube videos showing how to do this are available for nearly every laptop model as far as I can see).My next job, when budget allows, is to install a similar SSD from WD to move all my apps on to, so as to speed EVERYTHING up!