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

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

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.

So I have had a similar issue and research + experience may apply here... My org bought a bunch of WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD, there is an OEM firmware issue where the drives brick randomly... We installed them in many laptops and some failed overnight, some failed 3 months later, some failed 3 years la

i am on 420000RL. the sandisk support web article says 52020100 fixes an issue with drive not being recognized, released in 2022, and 52046100, fixing the fatal read only state issue. released in 2023. WD dashboard cannot be installed as it's discontinued, and i've tried sandisk. it gets detected bu

If you had an NVME slot, you won't notice any difference with an SSD that fast, a lower end one will work just fine: https://www.pccomponentes.com/disco-duro-wd-green-sn3000-2tb-disco-ssd-5000mb-s-nvme-pcie-40-m2-gen4-qlc-3d-nand But since it doesn't look like your PCP has a NVME slot: https://www.a

It isn't just a pattern of WD product failures, though those are widely reported. It's also a pattern of misleading advertising, terrible customer support, and excessive delays publishing updates/fixes to problems. Here's what others have to say about WD products, judge for yourself. Western Digital