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Any Difference between WD10SPZX and MZ-76P1TOBW?
The long story
My wife has a new Laptop (Dell G3 17-3779) that lists two drives under "This Computer". The boot drive which is 100gb, and an empty drive that is 900gb. I concluded it was an SSHD that had two partitions. Instead of just shifting Particition sizes, I decided to replace the drive with a True SSD (Looking online, Ive seen great reviews on SSHDs, but Ive had Horrible experiences myself). I opted for the Samsung 1TB V-NAND SSD 860 Pro (MZ-76P1TOBW). I got it in the mail, opened up the laptop, swapped out the drives, plugged in the Win10 Installation USB I setup ahead of time, and turned the system on. To my surprise, the system booted right back into windows, with user info and programs still intact. Like a dumb donkey, my information was based on assumptions. The two drives were not two partitions, but two completely separate SSDs. I now understand what type of SSD the actual boot drive is, and have a 500gb replacement on the way to have larger capacity.
But here's what I also noticed that leads me to this post:
As I said, I made the assumption that the 1TB drive that came with the laptop was an SSHD, based off hardware IDs I misread in Hardware manager and jumping to conclusions when I got a mere glance of it after opening the LT the first time.
When I got the Samsung and swapped out the drives, I looked up the model number which was
Western Digital - WD10SPZX. It looks like it has all the same specs as the Samsung.
Getting to the point - The Question
Is the Western Digital WD10SPZX a true SSD? and is it the same quality and specs as the Samsung MZ-76P1TOBW?
Last edited by varxtis; 06 Jun 2019 at 11:10.