WD Green 1TB Internal SSD 2.5" SATA

For me this WD 2Tb SSD was a fantastic option, as an upgrade for my Laptop and worth the money. Even though I bought and installed the WD GREEN SSD's for what I needed this SSD for, mainly gaming and fight simulators. Then adding this SSD into my Lenovo IdealPad 500-15ISK laptop gave me fantastic performance increase. Where games took 5 - 7 minutes to load, on a aging HDD. This same software loads and is playable, within 1 -2 minutes. Which is better measure of performance, rather that 200/300Mbps read/write times. Also added benefits swapping to this SSD gives me, Upgrading or applying software on my laptop, is much a faster, backing up my disk contents is faster, remote or network access to disk contents, much faster. I just wish I had done this upgrade a few years ago. If you are currently on the fence around purchasing this product.......then don't be, it is worth it. Trust me when it comes to every-day performance, then WD Green is a good as, WD Blue and will give your old Laptop or PC a new lease of life

I'm going to start off by saying I'm exceptionally pleased with this product. A fair few reviews moan about the speed of the drive, and to be fair there are faster drives out there for a bit more money but at this price point, it offered a significant update on the SATA 5400 RPM HDD, in my ageing system. In fact, it's worlds apart! My computer boots up and is ready to go in less than 25 seconds (including logging in) which is long way off the minutes it used to take. If you have to have the absolute fastest, spend a bit more and go for that but this drive is not slow by any means. The only real negative I could find was that there is no guidance on installation/troubleshooting, not a problem for me, I know my way around a pc, but it could be daunting for the less experienced. Have to say that installing the drive, clean installing Windows 10 on it and booting up went really smoothly. It's a godsend now I'm working at home, setting up for the day takes no time at all.

Installed in a Dell Netbook (cheap low-powered laptop). I found the netbook was struggling performance wise with a standard hard drive, so purchased this SSD and the difference is staggering. The netbook is now more responsive and boot up is literally 5 secs- this has made the netbook more useable again. People spend hundreds on new processors and memory for pcs in the search for speed gains, however as an IT engineer for the last 20yrs, I can assure you that the best bang-for-bucks upgrade you can do for your system is replace the hard drive with an SSD. The Western Digital brand is a solid, reliable make which is backed up with a decent 3yr replacement warranty for piece of mind. Easy to install on most systems, this upgrade will improve your system and bootup time. Highly recommend and probably the cheapest/quickest upgrade you can make to any current PC system.

UPDATE 4.1.19 (knock 1 star off) Since using this as a scratch disk and recording, I've noticed any footage I record on OBS becomes corrupted and shows significant packet loss and stuttering in game. The SSD is now solely used for editing videos as I suspect that heavy timeline scrubbing may have caused this issue. Note: still a good SSD for every other purpose. EDITED 8.9.18 REVIEW While most people would get this to put their operating system and core programs, I use this solely for the purpose of editing (scratch disk). Essentially, I'm going to put this SSD through its paces. I hate editing on a hard drive since I am bottlenecked by the read speeds, using an SSD as a scratch disk should alleviate stuttering and playback issues. Since WDs offering is basically a sandisk SSD, I knew that the performance is what I expected. If you are going to get this to put windows or whatever, then I highly recommend this size if you just need something cheap and cheerful, but more importantly reliable. You won't be disappointed by the boot times either.

First off if you wish to boot your OS off this SSD go and get the WD Blue SSD for a few pounds more. Basic simple SSD here, I boot my OS off it but it lacks its own built in RAM which would normally contain a map of where your data is saved. Instead it's saves on the SSD itself so it just takes that slight bit longer to load up my OS than a WD blue. Regardless it came and I banged it straight in no messing. Had to move to sata port 4-6 as 1-3 were for disk drives, once I did that it ran at full read/wright speed. Ive had it in about 2 months now with no issues what so ever and it is significantly faster than my old HDD, I bought it in a pinch and it is well worth the money but I will get a Blue in future for reliability and that little bit more speed. I never knew this before I bought mine so maybe you should know just so one day in years time your wd green doesn't eventually end up as non degradable waste.

I've been using this product since April and has never had any issues with. For what I've been using it, which is mining, it has performed well and 120gb is more then adequatefor it's purpose. It is small, lightweight, narrow and thin, silent and above all fast! I can say that I've been using WD products for a very long time and has never let me down nor did it cause any issues even if minor. Product arrived well packed and in time agreed when making the purchase, price is very suitable if you don't have a big budget yet you still hope to get a good performance out of it. I am personally very pleased with this product and would recommend it as a standalone or an addition to other drives.

Does what it's suppose to do. And does it well. Now, already passed the test of time, too

I bought 3 of these to pep up the performance of some older Dell Core Duo USFF machines, the extra speed on start up made the users very happy, they felt like they'd got new machines. I also put one in an i3 laptop and the stretch in battery life was noticeable too. 240Gb is plenty of space unless you're storing lots of video I used Macrium reflect to do the cloning, it's free, reliable and easy to use. TIP 1: Before cloning remove programs you don't use and delete downloads you don't need, particularly for programs you've installed. Then remember to empty the recycle bin, No point in wasting time cloning junk! TIP 2: If you've time, and this can take hours, do a hard drive cleanup, including Windows updates, this can free up a surprising amount of space and speed up your machine too.