I have been looking for a cheap ssd to revive my old laptop. This price is cheaper than the fake 20% off ebay price jack sales if you have an MSY store nearby.
NOTE Price is for pick up.
WD Green WDS120G2G0A 120GB SATAIII SSD Solid State Drive - $36 Pick Up @ MSY
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I'm not a computer wiz. Are these things hard to install?
No, pretty straightforward.
depends if its a laptop (then it depends which model)
or if its a pc (again depends on setup)
usually no.
what you trying to install it in ? would be able to tell you then.
I've done a couple of desktop and laptop installs. Desktops are generally quite simple to install (you just open up and replace old with new).
Laptops can be a bit of a hit and miss, some are quite simple, others are a little more complicated.
If you're unfamiliar with the process, I would suggest seeing if there is a youtube guide for replacing the drive for your particular model of laptop. That will give you an idea of what to expect. Also, some laptops have specific dimensions of drives it can take, so do be mindful of that.
As mentioned by someone else, if you can tell us what you're looking to install it in, that will get you more help :)
now the ssd getting much cheaper than before. Anyone know why?
English word called Progress? There has been report that the yield are good that there is currently an oversupply of NAND in production.
Supposedly NAND prices are decreasing rapidly as their manufacturing has increased finally and theres no longer such a squeeze on supply.
Everyday price. Been this price for 3 weeks at least. At one stage it was even $33.
Some reviews note these are not much faster than a regular HDD. I find that hard to believe? Maybe someone in the know can comment?
Not the best ssd on the market but definitely faster than traditional spinning hdd. These are OK to get a few more years out of an older laptop/pc but anything else I would look at Samsung etc.
I chucked one in my PC a while back (paid much more than this), boots up in a fraction of the time it used to. More expensive, faster ones are probably better, but for my use case it worked very well.
I replaced a spinning disk in a laptop I was about to turf due to it being unusable slow with a wd green recently - this machine is now fine for web browsing and basic tasks. It also boots win10 in about 20 seconds vs minutes previously.
Any SSD will be faster than HDD for a boot drive. The most important metrics are not sequential speeds, but seek times and random writes. Even the cheapest SSD will blow even the best HDDs out of the water on these metrics.
awesome.
We should JACK you up
throw this into a USB enclosure and you have a 120GB portable flash drive, at very cheap price
Don’t buy !! Read / write speeds are terrible on these !!!!!
For an SSD or compared to a HDD? The tests above seem to indicate otherwise.
It’s a $36 hard drive…
Scofffy drives a hard bargain
The speed is adequate in comparison to my 1.44mb Floppy Disk storage array.
This low-end SSD is still going to be 5 to 50 times faster than your spinning rust hard drive.
I got one of these for less than $30 a few months ago. Put it as the boot drive in my media server, works fine; it boots way faster, and Kodi doesn't lag loading thumbnails anymore. I can't complain.
I'd recommend the Kingston instead for $35.
https://www.umart.com.au/Kingston-AS400SSD-120G--2-5inch-7mm…
I agree. These WD greens are only better if they're <$30 including delivery.
Just picked up the Kingston SSD. Thanks!
About the same as 10% sitw wide though
$36