WD Blue SA510

From GOTA(Twitter) Landmine Pattern 1: DRAM-less NVMe relying on HMBIn 24H2, the HMB allocation jumped from 64 MB to 200 MB → DMA fault → Controller went silent → OS detected "Surprise Removal" and SMART could no longer be read. 2. Old Phison FWThe E12 generation is prone to timeouts when rewriting

The biggest performance upgrade IMO is replacing the HDD with a SSD. Watch out for cheap SSDs though, they likely will not have a DRAM cache, the unbranded or obscure branded ones particulary. Personally I'd always go for a known performance brand with a DRAM cache, e.g. Samsung 870 EVO or WD Blue S

Depends on the workload; we don't have a lot of workloads left that call for 2.5" SATA, but (as a business) we'll pay extra now for Kingston DC600 and Solidigm (Intel) D3-series. For actual consumer, WD Blue SA510 is generally okay unless we stumble on an infrequent sale with the WD RED SA500.

These WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD are STILL dying as of July 2025. Mine died overnight for literally NO REASON. I had just been using it before going to bed, in the morning it was completely bricked. To anyone who finds this post in the future: NEVER BUY A WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE SA510 SATA SSD!!! 250GB to

Yes, then this is the relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNIrmMgE5s You can see on 2:10 to 2:14 that the drive is removed. You need to buy a larger M.2 SATA drive and replace it. One like this: https://www.amazon.com/Red-SA500-NAS-NAND-Internal/dp/B07YFGXPQ2 . It needs to be SATA, not

If you know that that specific upgrade affects your specific drive and that a firmware upgrade solves the problem, then do so. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. Ask Woody is a good resource for this. It mentions that upgrade, but only that it affects WD Blue SA510 2TB SATA drives. And it only seems to b

There's a table at the end of this article with brands that were tested. https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/ NG Lv. 2 is the one you really don't want to have (drive broken) and it looks like that hits the WD Blue SA510.

Saját tapasztalat: 2,5 éve vettem 2 db 1TB-s WD Blue SA510-et. Akciós volt. Nem, nem az emagon, hanem az Aqua-ban :) Az egyik 1 év múlva bedöglött, gariban kicserélték. Azóta megy napi szinten. A másikkal semmi gond nem volt. Mennek rendesen, a HD Sentinel szerint mind a kettő 100% állapotú.1 dolog

WD Blue SA510 2 and 4 TB have DDR3. One of the last dinosaurs...

kinda been down this road. i ran raid 5 for a while but the seek times for random episodes drove me nuts. what helped me was grabbing a Samsung T7 Shield for my current series and leaving the archive on spinning rust. if your whole library fits on a 2tb drive the WD Blue SA510 is cheap and handles d