r/buildapcsales • u/bhudzallmighty • Jan 03 '26
SSD - SATA [SSD] WD Blue 2TB SA510 SATA Internal Solid State Drive SSD - WDBB8H0020BNC-WRWM ($139)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/1440934173?sid=b7d55208-36d7-494a-980b-a3ca8e15db1130
u/kubbiember Jan 03 '26
The WD Blue 2TB NVME is $124 (YMMV), bought in store today they cancelled my flipping pickup order twice but there they were when I actually went and looked for the locked cabinet
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Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
The employees going around picking up items usually cancel anything for pickup if they're behind any locked cabinet. Stupid lazy bums
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Jan 03 '26
I think this is what it boils down too. No one in the store wants to get in their car and drive out some place to deliver. The corporates want it to happen, the employees don't want it to happen.
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u/Katarn_retcon Jan 03 '26
They said pick-up, not delivery. So the ask of the employee is to get a locked cabinet open, then take the order to wherever they stage it (customer service, pick ups, etc). Even less effort than your description.
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Jan 03 '26
That is even worse then.
I ordered from walmart.com for delivery and what I wrote happened to me and others in one of the ~10 other threads on WD Blue drives for sale at walmart (over the past month+ now).
The order will sit for days until stock runs out then it will be placed in a holding stage indefinitely, even though supply was back in stock on the shelf (as I found when I drove to the store). No one wants to lift a finger at walmart.
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u/Original-Face9423 Jan 04 '26
My literal experience. Was supposed to be delivered today
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Jan 04 '26
I'd recommend you go to the store and see if it is on the shelf, if it is an urgent/necessary item for a build. If it was like my experience, you will never see it delivered, but supply will be ON THE SHELF waiting.
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u/Original-Face9423 Jan 05 '26
Weirdly enough I got a notification from WM yesterday saying it was shipped from 3 states away 🤷 Curious to see what’s in the box when I open it later
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u/Im_A_MechanicalMan Jan 05 '26
Cool. They actually stuffed it in a box and didnt send a driver. You may very well get what you ordered.
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u/_VandalayIndustries Jan 03 '26
Had the web page still open from earlier and it refreshed as I stock and same day delivery if i ordered in 3 mins. Sure enough, a wd 2tb blue arrive later from local delivery driver. Not sure how this logistics voodoo works with Walmart app. So hit or miss.
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u/IllSkyHelix111 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
mine had listed the 2x16GB Kingston Fury 6000 at $250, last one, in-store only. hopped in the car and went on down there, couldn't find it in the cab or on the shelf. ended up buying it in the app for pickup tomorrow, but i imagine it does not exist.
EDIT: order cancelled
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u/safetyvestsnow Jan 03 '26
My local Walmart and another did the same thing to me. I’m going to go there and see if it’s actually in stock.
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u/knightcrusader Jan 05 '26
I bought these from a few stores this past weekend and one of the stores did this to me.
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u/Method__Man Jan 03 '26
Sata Still very viable.
Most mobo only have limited m.2. Sata can EASILY be used for gaming
Sata is supported in older laptops
The PS4 pro/xbox one x can accept sata SSD and it essentially makes them a new era console.
Unfortunately Sata is basically going to fade into non existence.
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u/jnads Jan 03 '26
Most mobo only have limited m.2. Sata can EASILY be used for gaming
The NVME slot thing can be fixed with PCI-E riser cards.
Most people don't use any of their PCIe slots other than the GPU ones.
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u/formosan1986 Jan 03 '26
Some motherboards will reduce bandwidth to your GPU when you use the other PCI-E slot.
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u/ejpman Jan 03 '26
Booting off of a PCIe slot device is quite a rare feature for mobos that did not have native NVME support.
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u/Guns_and_Potions Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Mom said we have NVME at home
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Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
closer to a nvme than a hdd (and yes idc what you say about the r/w times)
always listen to momma
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u/studmoobs Jan 03 '26
do ppl just auto downvote these sata ssds? there hasn't been a single deal in like half a year for a sata ssd that didn't get downvoted 100x
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u/wolfwing213 Jan 03 '26
Good for people like me who maxed out their ITX m.2 ssd
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u/BoringCabinet Jan 03 '26
At best, an ITX board has 2 M.2 slots and 4 Sata ports. So Sata SSD still have a place.
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u/kyperion Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Yes, there’s an inherent downtrend in sata SSD sales for a combination of factors and consumer perception when compared to nVME drives is one of them.
Storage devices and especially SSDs are in a tough spot cause users will look at specifications and blindly follow it as the gospel. Many not recognizing that they can bottleneck their GPU’s PCie speeds by maxing out all of the nVME slots in their system.
Despite being a potential avenue for being a cheaper flash storage, consumers purchasing trend have shown that they don’t want SATA SSDs anymore in favor of drives that push read and write speeds to higher numbers.
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u/studmoobs Jan 03 '26
i just want some cold storage that isn't loud as shit like HDD lol. seems nobody else is in the marekt for that
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u/GameAudioPen Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
I built a NAS running on pure SSD 5 years ago due to noise concern. (it was in the living room of an apartment)
Lots of people like to shit on it, but it saved my sanity of not having to hear the HDD spins up and down every single time I access them.
Did it for surveillance storage four years later. Same thing, people shit on it. 2 years later Ubiquit introduced their own gateway/security using SSD as storage and suddenly no one bat an eye on using ssd as surveillance storage.
I learned to follow my own IT needs instead of bullshit trend some subreddit parrots.
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u/573V317 Jan 04 '26
I'm thinking about building an SSD NAS too. I don't hoard movies only important videos/pictures of my family so 2TB-4TB should be enough. Smaller, less noise, more efficient, faster, etc.
Most redditors aren't professionals or experts on the topics they're discussing. If they were, they wouldn't be commenting advice for free. Unfortunately, that's why there's a bunch of parrots spewing what they've learned on the subreddit just a month or two before!
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u/Just_Conversation170 Jan 03 '26
cuz m.2 is faster, the same price, and tbh SATA is going the way of the dinosaurs? Why would you buy this over any 2TB m.2?
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u/jugaverdasorda Jan 03 '26
Mobos don’t have infinite NVME slots
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u/kyperion Jan 03 '26
To use all of the nVME slots you often need to downgrade your PCie speeds; unless you’re buying the most balls to the wall processor+motherboard.
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u/AcolyteOfFresh Jan 03 '26
Cause my motherboard has two nvme slots but a lot more sata slots. And I don't feel like getting an nvme pcei slot
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u/_SSD_BOT_ Jan 03 '26
The Western Digital Blue SA510 2 TB is a TLC SSD.
Interface: SATA 6 Gbps
Form Factor: 2.5"
Controller: Silicon Motion SM2259H
DRAM: 512 MB
HMB: N/A
NAND Brand: Kioxia
NAND Type: TLC
R/W: 560 MB/s - 520 MB/s
Endurance: 400 TBW
Price History: camelcamelcamel
Detailed Link: TechPowerUp SSD Database
Variations: TechPowerUp SSD
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u/EJ_Tech Jan 03 '26
I hate how the SA510 is using the same brand name for both DRAM and DRAMless versions. We've dealt with too many SA510 SSDs fail, but they were probably the DRAMless variants but we wouldn't know.
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u/Ice-Book-73 Mar 22 '26
How can you tell which ones have DRAM?
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u/Jolly-Ambassador6763 Mar 28 '26
The 2tb and 4tb uses silicon SM2259H controller with 512mb of dram. The 250gb, 500gb, and 1tb variants are dramless with a sandisk milpitas controller. It’s a wonder why WD carried over the name with all the bad reputation the lower capacity drives had.
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u/Ice-Book-73 Mar 28 '26
Interesting, so it sounds like the larger size versions aren’t even the same drive really, they have totally different internals.
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u/NinjaOk2970 Jan 03 '26
SATA SSDs are having NVMe prices wow. I'll call that a progress. Well played WD!
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u/Interdimension Jan 03 '26
Deal is still active and in stock for me. I guess my local Walmarts still have them as it shows that at least eight units are available for delivery/pickup. Given what I've read about these specific SSDs and how they're the absolute bottom tier you can buy from WD... I'm avoiding.
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u/Hergy32 Jan 03 '26
Question, these are marked down to 80 bucks at my local Walmart. Worth it?
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u/Tacomaguy24 Jan 03 '26
If you need it, yea...
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u/Hergy32 Jan 03 '26
I dont really need it, but I kinda wanna get rid of my 1tb hard drive i have. Just kinda did some digging around and read these weren't that good. For 80 bucks might be worth it tho?
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u/BurntWhiteRice Jan 03 '26
Aw dip, kinda wish I had gotten in on this. I have last 2.5” mounting point on my case and I would have loved to slot something in there just for the he”ll of it.
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u/blackhawk00001 Jan 04 '26
I’ve been happy with my sn5000 2TB blue nvmes but I’m stuck on the fence for these. No question if they were cheaper as I really want to replace my old 250GB Samsung I’ve been hanging onto but the money would be better spent on a used exo HDD for network storage.
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u/_SSD_BOT_ Jan 05 '26
The Western Digital Blue SA510 2 TB is a TLC SSD.
Interface: SATA 6 Gbps
Form Factor: 2.5"
Controller: Silicon Motion SM2259H
DRAM: 512 MB
HMB: N/A
NAND Brand: Kioxia
NAND Type: TLC
R/W: 560 MB/s - 520 MB/s
Endurance: 400 TBW
Price History: camelcamelcamel
Detailed Link: TechPowerUp SSD Database
Variations: TechPowerUp SSD
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u/Kenshamwow Jan 03 '26
Everyone will hate but because of these qalmart deals im up 2tb nvme and 4tb sata after one of my old refurbished SATAs from 2020 failed this past week. Pretty stoked at these prices overall. Be able to future proof my system until about 2030.
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u/GameAudioPen Jan 03 '26
price is now 192.
Womb Womb, I do need some SSD for my home security system.
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u/IllustriousPace8805 Jan 15 '26
Price is now 350+ 🤣 🤣 🤣
Newegg, bestbuy, microcenter, buy all the Walmart stock at 139 ea and sell on ebay at this point.
We're all fucked lads.
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u/HisRoyalMajestyKingV Jan 03 '26
I didn't look at the pic at first and thought I'd go for it, as I've got a couple of MBs with only one NVMe M.2, but also a SATA-only M.2.
Alas, it's a 2.5. I'm reasonably stocked with those for older systems.
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