WDS500G1B0A — Western Digital 500GB Blue 2.5 inch TLC 6Gb/s SATA SSD
MPN: WDS500G1B0A|By: Western Digital
In Stockships worldwide
- Condition:
- New — authorized channel
- Warranty:
- Full manufacturer warranty
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Product overview
This is the Western Digital 500GB blue 2.5 inch TLC 6Gb/s SATA SSD, order code WDS500G1B0A. Mixing drive models inside one array leaves the group running at the slowest member's latency, and this is a SATA device. Tell us what is already in the shelf and we will match it rather than merely fit it.
No price is published here because the market for this part moves week to week; ask and we will give you a current one rather than a stale one.
Featuring
- Capacity
- 500GB
- Manufacturer
- Western Digital
Interfaces / Ports
- Drive Interface
- SATA
- Interface Standard
- 6Gb/s SATA
Physical characteristics
- Form Factor
- 2.5 inch
- Product Type
- Enterprise SSD
- Expedited shipping options are available — rates confirmed with your quote.
- Purchase orders accepted from qualified institutions.
- Compatibility is validated against your server platform before dispatch. Send us the model and we will confirm support.
The table below is what the enterprise SSD is documented as, not what we have inferred from the part number. If the figure you need is missing, ask and we will source it from the manufacturer.
Where the Western Digital WDS500G1B0A is deployed
- Sourcing WDS500G1B0A against a build sheet that names it explicitly
- Building a write-intensive volume for a database or log workload
- Adding a flash tier to an array already in production
Who this part is for
- Integrators building to a customer storage specification
- Teams holding matched spares for a production flash array
- Database and virtualisation admins sizing a write-intensive volume
What you get ordering this from us
Ordered by part number
Quoted and supplied against WDS500G1B0A specifically, so what arrives is what your build sheet asks for.
Endurance matched to the workload
We ask what the drive is being written to before quoting, because a read-intensive part on a write-heavy volume is a warranty claim waiting to happen.
Answered by a human
A quote comes back with the reasoning attached, including the cases where we think you should buy something else.
Questions buyers ask about this part
- Is WDS500G1B0A genuine and is the warranty intact?
- Yes — new and sealed, with the Western Digital warranty and the firmware update path intact. We do not sell refurbished stock as new, and we do not source grey-market units.
- Will WDS500G1B0A work in my server?
- Send the server or array model and the controller behind it. We check the carrier, the firmware family and whether the drive is on the platform's supported list — mechanical fit is the easy part.
- Do you accept purchase orders and quote at volume?
- Yes — POs from qualified organisations, net terms on approval, and banded pricing once the quantity is worth banding. Send the number and we will price it properly.
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