Western Digital 1TB WD Green Internal PC SSD Solid State Drive - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 550 MB/s - WDS100T2G0A

I purchased in 2021 and this little drive is fast and still going strong. Highly recommend.

I bought this 1TB WD Green SSD to replace a very old HDD on my dinosaur Windows 7 desktop. I used the free Acronis download from WD clone the old system drive. Acronis make this so easy. Cloning and startup went flawlessly.Pro:Lowest price per GB I could find anywhereUS based, name-brand, industry-leading companyFast enough for my very old PCFree Acronis download made installation EASYWin-7 Boot time increased TEN FOLDSO QUIET !!ConNot quite as fast as higher-priced mainstream drivesI spent HOURS of Black Friday research and stress to select this specific drive. I was torn between Seagate and WD, as both are industry leaders and US based. I have lost Seagate drives in the past, I've never lost a WD drive, so I went with WD. I went with WD Green(slow) instead of WD Blue (Fast) because green is substantially less money, and, this old system can't really go that fast.I've very happy with this purchase. I only regret not doing this long ago. After the holidays, I will buy another to upgrade the wife's old computer.

I bought 3 of these total and upgraded my work PC, my work laptop and my wife's PC. This was the best upgrade I have made to our computers in years and it was super low cost. Boot times are 100% faster. It's like getting a new computer but better. These were really easy to install and there are plenty of instructional you tube videos but you can be logical and figure it out. I have been running drives for about a month with no issues and best of all no sound.By nature SSD have no moving parts and what's noticeable is the lack of sound or noise coming from my computers now. All in all I would buy more but don't need more.

Purchased this Sep 8, 2021 and unit died Jan 22, 2025. It was used as my secondary SSD for video games. Only unimportant games or less played games on it but the PC wasn't running right so I gave it a reboot and low and behold on reboot the MB stated it had a SMART failure AND I am out of the warranty by 5 months of course.

It seems to be a decent drive. If all you are looking for is a SSD this will do fine. My big complaint is sustained write speeds. The DRAM cache is pretty small and fills after a few GB. While writing to the cache the speeds are between 250 and 300 MB sec. once it’s full, the speeds jump all over the place. Write speeds drop as low as 1 MB sec and back up to around 150 MB sec. Read speeds are decent and in line with other SATA drives I have used. It’s a pretty good value drive.

A couple years ago I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop (I3) processor with the intention of using it as a spare. The PC suffered from lousy boot times-as much as 35 minutes. I couldn't fix that in task manager. I tried replacing the standard 1tb HD with a WD Green 1tb hard drive. Boot time is <1 minute (ca 30 seconds). The computer has fast snappy response.Installation took 2.5-3 hrs. I used Acronis to clone the HD. It spent a very long time preparing the source disk. Maybe 30 minutes writing to the WD SSD target. It took 15 minutes to swap the drives. 10 of that 15 minutes was looking for a screw that fell out, hit the table and bounced into some unknown dimension.Initial boot up with the SSD was without problem and took less than a minute. The laptop has performed flawlessly and blazingly fast compared to the original drive.I read the reviews on Blue VS Green ssd drives. If I were going to use this laptop for high i/o, intensive use, I probably wouldn't have bought the Green. But then this laptop wouldn't be Dell with an I3 processor. The estimated life expectancy of the green is up to 1.0 million hours. that's just under 115 years. The blue would last just under 200 years. I may be sorry in 2135. This is the 3rd laptop I've replaced the original drive with an SSD. I've had one failure. It was up and running within a couple of hours of getting the replacement drive.The bottom line is this SSD made this laptop usable.

Day one first impressions.Extremely lightweight! Easy to install, just followed Sony's guides and made sure the SSD was positioned the same was as the HDD was.I have two PS4 Pros, one with the OG HDD and another with this SSD. I compared them using Bloodborne. Caviat is that the HDD PS4 is in use with many games already installed while the SSD is a clean slate since I just got it.Tests. The times below are how long the "Bloodborne" loading screen stayed up:1. Using the disc, both PS4s copied over the game very quickly basically just a few seconds.2. After the first death at the start of the game, loading the dream area cutscene took ~11sec on the SSD and ~14sec on the HDD.3. Loading the first area on the first tombstone took ~23seconds on the SSD and ~37sec on the HDD

First of all this is a quality SSD and is really fast. I have been using in a professional recording studio environment for 3 months now wit zero issues. My Windows 10 PC fully booted and ready to go in 18 seconds! Love it. For all those one star reviews its very obvious you don't know what your doing when you were installing. There is nothing automatic about installing a new drive. Learn before you get in over your head. You cant go wrong with this drive its super fast and reliable, and for 100$ you cant beat it. Thanks Western Digital!