CasualGamer91
Forerunner
Wd blue are lower quality ones.. i dont prefer them too. Only acceptable SSDs from them are the black ones. Similar thing happened with me with crucial sata SSD. It was not a boot drive, but when it got affected pc always gets into automatic repair until i unplugged it. Thankfully nothing important was there. But also that SSD ran over 5 years without problem. Crystal disk was at 80% before it failed without warning. My old wd blue spinning HDD drive outlived it..I agree
But WD slammed me once on my face.
I had 1 x nvme for windows and apps, and 1tb hdd for data (continuing since 5yrs).
The HDD had all my personal files, business stuff, content assets, everything, literally everything, which if lost, i'd lose everything that i am currently doing.
Hence I decided to upgrade to a SSD.
I bought a WD BLUE 1tb SATA SSD, and replaced the HDD
And guess what, the next month, the ssd failed.
Tried every form of data recovery, but the drive showed no files on it.
Problem was that it suddenly got terribly slow, and then crashed the PC. Now the pc wont turn on at all, super slow, spinning at the windows logo. I tried to connect it via external enclosure, and as soon as connected, the PC would get anciently slow.
Later, by luck, after approval of RMA, i gave it a shot by connecting it to my phone via the enclosure + OTG connector, and guess what, it showed up! All files intact, except for a few folders. I managed to copy out all my 500gb of data, by batches of 32gb (i copied stuff from ssd to sd card, moved sd card to pc, stored the data, again put sd card on phone and started the next batch.)
Though I got it RMAed and got a new one, but it randomly failed. Which still leaves me with trust issues.
Lesson that I learnt : If it is important enough to be stored for ages, then it is def important enough to be backed up.