I love this drive and find new and interesting tidbits about it all the time. I give it a five for performance and value.
However, I had my first drive for a week and couldn't figure out why the Western Digital SSD Dashboard was saying the remaining life of my drive was 95%. My testing/benchmarking had been limited and nothing strange occurred during the setup/configuration of it.
Prime Member's Day occurred 5 days after I bought the 1tb version. The savings was $70 so I called Amazon and they wouldn't budge on giving me credit but the CS rep recommended I just return the old one and buy a new one, especially after I said something didn't seem right with the life remaining of the drive. The new drive was very low in reads/writes and the dashboard says it has 100% life left.
So I presume someone returned my first drive and Amazon restocked it then sent it to me; bad on Amazon for restocking a SSD drive. The cummulative data written and read was showing 32TB. I was researching the first drive after install and thought it was strange but watched it as I was testing and noticed it wasn't dramatically increasing when I was running benchmarks. I thought it was just part of initial factory burn in.
Upon receiving this new drive, the total Read/Writes were in the low GB range indicating that the first drive was seriously used when I got it. The prior owner must have been running benchmarks for days to get to 32TB reads/writes on the drive. TBW is rated at 600TB so I wasn't too concerned, but still.
So beware when you get your drive. I used HWINFO64 to find the total reads/writes for my drive. It's a great tool to have anyway and free so please check yours and give Amazon hell if you find you've got a used one. I don't blame WD at all for this issue.
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