The WD Green 120GB 545MB/s SATA 2.5" SSD is able to improve your performance for everyday computing, with 120GB of storage, up to 545MB/s sequential read and 3 years limited manufacturer warranty. The lightweight and shock resistant WD Green is able to provide solid state reliability.
Thanks OP, shipping kills the deal
Wish people who would make such critical comments would at least substantiate their statement a little.
Perhaps you have information that would be greatly appreciated!!!
What happened in your case if I may ask?
These are awful…The colour clashes with my outfit?
I did get a good chuckle out of that comment!
Relevant sarcasm and humorous at the same time!
i heard kingston a400/v400 or sandisk ssd plus which were also within this price range during last sale, both are much faster in real benchmark
the quoted speed on this green wd don't live up to it's claim from benchmark results
source ? google yourself
Sure. Apart from sequential reads (which is the sexy max read speed that goes into the marketing material), these are barely any better than a HDD, and in some situations worse. Sandisk/Kingston options mentioned above are substantially better.
THAT has some real useful substance to it!
Thank you for elaborating.
That is nonsense.
Sure, the write speed isn't as high as the read speed but these are a LOT better than mechanical for a system drive.
I don't use cheap solid state in any of my primary PCs but one of these will greatly improve the performance of a PC from the last 5-8 years which has a decent CPU and amount of RAM but feels like a slug due to a mechanical boot drive.
@O15: Hi O15 and thanks for your enquiry. My point is that this is a particularly shit SSD, even compared to other budget SSDs. It's the 4K and random reads/writes that make an SSD feel "snappy".
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Green-120GB-2018-vs-…
@theHMASfriendship: Yeah, that's great. Neither your attempt at wit or your link reinforce your statement about this drive being barely better than a mechanical drive.
I don't have any Green SSDs on hand to bench however, I do have a 4TB WD Black (HDD) which, without going to enterprise hardware, is about the best case scenario for a mechanical drive. I can tell you that the read/write performance (across the board) of this drive is nothing compared to a WD Green SSD.
Even my RAID 5 Reds can only compete in sequential performance.
I have one of these in my media server as a boot drive, works absolutely perfectly.
Same, awesome performance boost for biotup and just general responsiveness on a 5 year old HP microserver.
WD Green - 490/380
A400 - 470/360
MX500 - 510/470
860 Evo - 520/490
5400rpm Laptop HDD - 80/80
Read/Write speeds in MB/s from userbenchmark.com
I’ve got one and paid $50-60 a year ago - was previously on a mechanical drive and the difference is night and day! Worth it if you have an old laptop that you only use for internet!
According to someone who can't keep track of their socks they're "little better than a hard drive".
But what difference are we comparing between "night and day"? Duration? Brightness? Temperature? Number of letters used to spell the word? Some differences are less than others!
Some people dont need to measure the ms i/o's with ultimate precision.
Shove a ssd in any machine that was using a mechanical drive and just enjoy the new found speed.
Simple as that… no BS.
$9 for shipping FYI
must be location dependant. Mine was quoted at $10.88 for WA Metro
$36 at MSY. Still a good deal for delivered if you don't have a MSY close.
Also check out the Kingston A400 240GB 500MB/s SATA 2.5" SSD for $50+GST. https://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/kingston-a400-240gb-5…
thanks, copped one
Thanks for that! too late for me. I already purchased one of those from their ebay store yesterday for $67 with discounts. This works out $10~ cheaper even with website postage to my area. I've still gotten a good deal as its just going in a family PC.
Can this be used as an external usb drive in some easy economical way?
The price is great if I can do that.
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