Various Retailers have
1TB Western Digital WD Green Internal SSD Solid State Drive (WDS100T3G0A) on sale for
$59.99.
Shipping is free.
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Specs / Features:
- Max Sequential Read: Up to 545 MBps
- SLC (single-level cell) caching boosts write performance to quickly perform everyday tasks.
- Shock-resistant and WD F.I.T. Lab certified for compatibility and reliability.
- Ultra low power-draw so you can use your laptop PC for longer periods of time.
- Available in 2.5"/7mm cased and M.2 2280 form factors to accommodate most PCs.
- The free, downloadable Western Digital SSD Dashboard lets you easily monitor the status of your drive.
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his OP
rounded up some reviews, the overall consensus appears to be "okay but not great"
https://www.digit.in/reviews/stor...57243.ht
https://tekie.com/blog/hardware/w...-blue-ssd/
https://www.techporn.ph/wd-green-...gb-review/
https://www.gizmotech.i
tom's hardware.. which has never steered me wrong before
https://www.tomshardwar
(scroll down to "21" on this second link)
https://www.tomshardwar
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his OP
rounded up some reviews, the overall consensus appears to be "okay but not great"
https://www.digit.in/reviews/stor...57243.ht
https://tekie.com/blog/hardware/w...-blue-ssd/
https://www.techporn.ph/wd-green-...gb-review/
https://www.gizmotech.i
tom's hardware.. which has never steered me wrong before
https://www.tomshardwar
(scroll down to "21" on this second link)
https://www.tomshardwar
Likely QLC and if I had to guess endurance is 50-100 cycles (basing this guess on WD green SN350 NVME drive).
Fine for media (Write few read lot), Poor for anything else.
I dropped ~100 of these in the 256gb flavor into mobile nursing computers knowing they're glorified thin clients and they worked fine for that task. They were replacing even slower mechanical drives that were beginning to fail on the regular. And all these really needed to do is read data once I had an image loaded on them.
I would hook this up to a Pi (already slow) or maybe toss this in an old computer that's getting repurposed as an appliance of some kind. Suppose it would be OK for bulk storage in a USB case for portability purposes. Maybe as an archived game drive.
They meant to put $19.99, so someone should fix the typos at all the stores...
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On the other hand if it's important the drive works... say it's the drive you installed Windows on or you want to save important files on there .. then see my comment above (post 4) long winded I know
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX...B077SF8KMG
but I would wait for amazon to get them back in stock as far as the "shipped and sold by amazon" option or at least the "shipped by amazon" option to make returns easy in the extremely rare (never happened to me) but possible option you get a bad drive.. that and amazon has a great no hassle return policy.
As far as breaking the bank.. unfortunately even at it's cheapest the 1 TB I've seen go as low as $75 which is $15 more than the $60 this drive is going for but I'd strongly argue it's worth the extra $15.. wait until black friday next week Friday to see if amazon gets them back in stock and it drops to the $75 price again
On the other hand if it's important the drive works... say it's the drive you installed Windows on or you want to save important files on there .. then see my comment above (post 4) long winded I know
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX...B077SF8KMG
but I would wait for amazon to get them back in stock as far as the "shipped and sold by amazon" option or at least the "shipped by amazon" option to make returns easy in the extremely rare (never happened to me) but possible option you get a bad drive.. that and amazon has a great no hassle return policy.
As far as breaking the bank.. unfortunately even at it's cheapest the 1 TB I've seen go as low as $75 which is $15 more than the $60 this drive is going for but I'd strongly argue it's worth the extra $15.. wait until black friday next week Friday to see if amazon gets them back in stock and it drops to the $75 price again
https://slickdeals.net/f/16192864-1tb-solidigm-p41-plus-m-2-80mm-pcie-gen4-x4-3d4-qlc-ssd-59-99-f-s?
https://slickdeals.net/f/16192864-1tb-solidigm-p41-plus-m-2-80mm-pcie-gen4-x4-3d4-qlc-ssd-59-99-f-s?
https://www.tomshardwar
I don't know anything personally about that drive but I'd go with what tom's hardware is saying.. it's performance is "meh" and like the green western digital one I would use it only for stuff where if you lose it it's no great loss, like games for example ...
I guess now that I think about it in theory this or the green WD drive could be used for files too as long as you have a good backup to go along with it... like in my case I save any important files onto a usb thumb drive ... but I would also copy those files onto say google drive ... for $20 a year you can get a ton of google storage , 100 GB of space , to save important files onto. That way in the case of complete disaster (hacker locks all of your drives so you can't access them, entire computer and all parts within get fried) at least you have your important files backed up.
But as far as Windows ,.. your " C " drive... definitely go for something like that crucial MX drive ... if you don't mind me asking are you building a new PC for yourself or adding this drive onto an existing PC build? And would any important files or anything else you wouldn't be happy about losing go onto the drive you plan on buying?
https://www.tomshardwar
I don't know anything personally about that drive but I'd go with what tom's hardware is saying.. it's performance is "meh" and like the green western digital one I would use it only for stuff where if you lose it it's no great loss, like games for example ...
I guess now that I think about it in theory this or the green WD drive could be used for files too as long as you have a good backup to go along with it... like in my case I save any important files onto a usb thumb drive ... but I would also copy those files onto say google drive ... for $20 a year you can get a ton of google storage , 100 GB of space , to save important files onto. That way in the case of complete disaster (hacker locks all of your drives so you can't access them, entire computer and all parts within get fried) at least you have your important files backed up.
But as far as Windows ,.. your " C " drive... definitely go for something like that crucial MX drive ... if you don't mind me asking are you building a new PC for yourself or adding this drive onto an existing PC build? And would any important files or anything else you wouldn't be happy about losing go onto the drive you plan on buying?
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX...7734&psc=1
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https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX...7734&psc=1
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