Western Digital SSD Reviews & Insights

Score8.8 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Western Digital SSD are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Fast Data Access: Many users have praised the Western Digital SSD for its fast access to data, both in terms of reading and writing. This has been particularly beneficial for users who frequently transfer or retrieve large files, as it significantly reduces waiting times and improves overall efficiency.

Easy Setup: Reviewers appreciate that the Western Digital SSD is easy to connect without requiring additional software overhead. This saves users time and effort when setting up the SSD, allowing them to quickly start using their storage device without any complications.

Reliable Backup: The fast backup feature of the Western Digital SSD has received high praise from users. This ensures that important data can be securely backed up in a timely manner, providing peace of mind in case of data loss or system failures.

Reviews

6 Reviews

Western Digital SSD - cost effective upgrade for your workstation or laptop

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Western Digital SSDs (Solid-state drives) have many advantages over hard disk drives (HDDs), including faster speeds, lower energy consumption, and greater durability.

By upgrading our workstations with Western Digital SSD it has increased the performance without having to upgrade the computer itself.

Pros

Faster read / write times
More durable, no moving components
Better battery life with laptops due to the decrease in power consumption over a HDD

Cons

Price point. The prices are coming down but still more expensive than HDD
More Storage space would be nice.

Likelihood to Recommend

They are great for workstatsion and laptops. However, I don't know if I would use the drives in a NAS, or in some servers.

Derek Beutler

Attorney in Legal at Beutler Law P.C. (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

DON'T BUY PRODUCTS FROM WESTERN DIGITAL

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I bought their new SanDisk Extreme 1TB Portable NVMe SSD, USB-C, up to 1050MB/s Read and 1000MB/s Write Speed from amazon for over £130. In the beginning it worked but was slower than was supposed to be. I used it 2 or 3 times. Now after months of not using it it is not detected by two different PCs, laptop, surface tablets and galaxy phone. I've tried many cables including provided by amazon. Contacted WD but they make everything very difficult. No wonder they have so many negative reviews. How can you make a disk that works only few times?!!! Will try to return/replace and continue this review asap.

Cons

speed
durability
honesty

Likelihood to Recommend

Slawomir Gromadzki

NPD in Product Management at HealthAid (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Western Digital SSD Connects Seamlessly Across OS (Windows/MAC)

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SSD is helpful to get better performance and with Western Digital, it has better performance in IOPS comparing other vendors. Moreover, it gives more features from the driver's point of view as it helps to create backup partitions properly and works for both Windows/MAC environments parallelly.

Pros

Helps to work in both Windows/MAC environment
Have tool that helps to use the hard disk as backup recovery points
Drivers for WD gives better control than other vendors
Not much of heating issues

Cons

Not much
Pricing can be reduced ;)

Likelihood to Recommend

For use in both Windows and Mac OS, it was well suited by default. Other hardware doesn't really allow multi os file system access.

Verified User

Contributor in Research & Development (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Reliable and Very Fast SSD.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several Western Digital SSD drives used internally in our ERP and database servers. The SSD proved to be very fast, reliable, and with excellent durability. The performance has improved a lot compared to other HDDs we have used.

Pros

Improved response time of complex, high-load systems.
Optimized write speed
Reliable and market leading brand SSD and high durability and less chance of failure.

Cons

It's more expensive than an HDD, but it's worth it by a lot.
There is less chance of data recovery.

Likelihood to Recommend

Western Digital SSD has provided more security, performance, scalability, speed of backup, restoration, and synchronization of data from our systems. It has efficient technical support and a very good customer service time with hardware replacement. I would recommend them to all people, from smaller to larger companies to be replace other HDD or SSD on the market.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Western Digital SSD a good option for your storage

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 18, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have replaced all the traditional disks to SSD disks. The main problem that we had was the traditional disks after some years presents some problems and with this problem the servers and computers of the users were affected causing down times in the operation, impacting directly to the business core of the company.

Pros

Fast I/O
Secure
No support needed
Long live

Cons

Disks of user's computers
Servers
External Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

We started saving the information of the user's computers on external storage SSD (portable), we found the solution with the computers changing the original disks to SSD, then we checked that the new disks never fail and bought a simple n traditional NAS of Western Digital with SSD disks, we achieved no problems with the data, and then we made the decision of invest on change the disks of the servers.

Miguel Maldonado

Presales in Sales at CiberC (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Excellent product for quick, easy, transportable storage

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Western Digital SSD is used as a fast and easy-to-use storage medium for large amounts of data that is rarely accessed. Minimal configuration is required. Stability is high and transportability is painless. Read and write access is fairly quick. Data corruption issues are rare but are also easily fixed with minimal downtime.

Pros

Fast access to data (read and write).
Easy to connect without much extra software (overhead).

Cons

Speed could be improved.
Online corruption checking and correction during read/write could be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

Anytime large amounts of data are needed for very quick access and standup, (no need to configure any new infrastructure like servers) a western digital SSD fits the bill. If guaranteed uptime with zero corruption is required, Western Digital SSD might not be the best fit. While corruption is very rare, it does happen and will take a little bit of time to correct.

Maurice Samuels

DBA in Information Technology at Duquesne Light Company (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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