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1TB WD Green SATA III 2.5mm Internal Solid State Drive

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Various Retailers have 1TB Western Digital 1TB WD Green SATA III 2.5mm Internal Solid State Drive (WDS100T3G0A) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.

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Available Retailers: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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Various Retailers have 1TB Western Digital 1TB WD Green SATA III 2.5mm Internal Solid State Drive (WDS100T3G0A) on sale for $49.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member phoinix for sharing this deal.

Available Retailers: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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Nov 24, 2022
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beyond_bath
Nov 24, 2022
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I suppose it's DRAM-less?
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Nov 24, 2022
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SplendidShop857
Nov 24, 2022
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Quote from beyond_bath :
I suppose it's DRAM-less?
"SLC (single-level cell) caching boosts write performance to quickly perform everyday tasks."
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Quote from beyond_bath :
I suppose it's DRAM-less?
Yep. Green is the lowest end model. Blue has DRAM.
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MWink
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Quote from justye :
Yep. Green is the lowest end model. Blue has DRAM.
Are we sure the Blue still has DRAM? The Blue 3D seems to have been replaced by the Blue SA510. WD's specs on the SA510 are worse than the old Blue 3D. I have not been able to find a single source that claims the new version still has DRAM (and one source claiming that it does not). The (user) reviews I've seen tend to indicate that the new version is much slower and less reliable than the older Blue 3D. Until I find some compelling evidence to the contrary, I'm personally considering the Blue SA510 a low end drive.
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MistaClean
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Quote from MWink :
Are we sure the Blue still has DRAM? The Blue 3D seems to have been replaced by the Blue SA510. WD's specs on the SA510 are worse than the old Blue 3D. I have not been able to find a single source that claims the new version still has DRAM (and one source claiming that it does not). The (user) reviews I've seen tend to indicate that the new version is much slower and less reliable than the older Blue 3D. Until I find some compelling evidence to the contrary, I'm personally considering the Blue SA510 a low end drive.
The WD Blue you're talking about does NOT have dram. I was surprised too when I was checking it out the other day.
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Gb1908
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Without cache how low would low woulf it go? Hdd speed?
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Quote from Gb1908 :
Without cache how low would low woulf it go? Hdd speed?
DRAMless SSD still faster and solid upgrade from a HDD.

SSDs with DRAM provide overall better performance compared to DRAMless, but will cost more.
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Quote from Gb1908 :
Without cache how low would low woulf it go? Hdd speed?
worst than hdd, I am not using high end harddisk but I can get 80MB/s in write speed. For this ssd, around 30MB/s only because no dram......
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Deadpoole
Nov 26, 2022
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I always went with the green HDD's when performance wasn't a thing, but check out the warranty and tbw on green SSD's vs the blues. The TBW on the green nvme SSD's is unbelievably low, and with just a three year warranty western digital shows how much they think this drive will last.

A blue SSD will have a 75% longer life span. Since I saw the low green nvme specs, they're off my list. Fine for something that you aren't going to use too much.

Has an SLC cache for those worried about that, but ssd caches are limited and mostly just make benchmarks look better. Unless you're doing a rather small amount of reads/writes and have very small amount of RAM, your OS will do the caching for you.

An extra 8GB of system ram will do a lot for overall system drive caches.
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evident
Nov 26, 2022
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Never get a dram less ssd. Awful experience
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ScarletMask778
Nov 26, 2022
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Never have any problem with dram-less drive for my daily use.
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snydertalon
Nov 26, 2022
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Quote from NeatShop7155 :
worst than hdd, I am not using high end harddisk but I can get 80MB/s in write speed. For this ssd, around 30MB/s only because no dram......
I cannot speak to your experience, but the team at Techspot had a different experiences WRT DRAM vs DRAM-less Drives (https://www.techspot.com/review/2...e-loading/)

The WD SN550 is DRAMless but the Intel 665P has DRAM. The WD (DRAM-less) is faster, sequentially than the Intel...as well as in random read/write. For loading games, I cannot draw any meaningful conclusions. The authors talk about a 15% gain...but they are also talking about 14.5 vs 16.6 seconds from fastest to slowest. They, in fact say....

bulb bulb bulbWhat has become blatantly clear from this test is that it doesn't matter what sort of SSD you have for gaming, so long as it's an SSD of some sort. bulb bulb bulb

I concede the point that they did not test this specific drive, but they did test a DRAM-less WD drive 2 years ago. But I also have a bias. I am running a, I don't know, 45 year old SanDisk 128 SSD as my cache drive for my media editing. I have moved it through many computers over the years (primary, wife's, server, external, sitting in a drawer) before putting it back into my main rig. It is absurdly faster than my WD Red 14 TBs in RAID (using onboard controller so that could be a bottle neck). I don't care about TBW for it because I don't edit that much, and it was released in 2013...I've gotten my money's worth out of it. I find it difficult to believe that you get 30MB/s out of a 1 TB drive when I get 335 read / 250 write out of a 10 year old 128 GB drive (I just transferred files from it to my NVMe drive so that the old drive would be the bottle neck)

I am open to reviews you can find that show that this 1TB drive only gets 30MB for sustained write.
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snydertalon
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Quote from MagentaScene2481 :
I always went with the green HDD's when performance wasn't a thing, but check out the warranty and tbw on green SSD's vs the blues. The TBW on the green nvme SSD's is unbelievably low, and with just a three year warranty western digital shows how much they think this drive will last.

A blue SSD will have a 75% longer life span. Since I saw the low green nvme specs, they're off my list. Fine for something that you aren't going to use too much.

Has an SLC cache for those worried about that, but ssd caches are limited and mostly just make benchmarks look better. Unless you're doing a rather small amount of reads/writes and have very small amount of RAM, your OS will do the caching for you.

An extra 8GB of system ram will do a lot for overall system drive caches.
Thank you! I find this...shared understanding that a slow SSD will not load a text document until the heat death of the universe to be...odd at best. TBW and reliability absolutely make sense as factors for concern. Its why I do the 'dumb' thing and have all of my files on a mirrored HDD RAID (to include my desktop, downloads, etc). Sure...I only get 150MBs, but I have grown accustomed to those "slow" speeds.

Of note, I am curious if the reason for the shorter warranty is what I think you're saying. When I read your comment, I read that you think that WD thinks that the drive will just die super early. https://insights.samsung.com/2021...after-all/ - Samsung says the main reason for the shorter warranty is that without the DRAM, there are more writes to the drive, eating into the life of it. Which makes sense to me.
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spideyrider
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Stating the obvious, this isn't a "2.5mm Internal Solid State Drive"

It's a 2.5" SATA III drive. Two point five inches, not millimeters. Which refers to the form factor (though, for the truly pedantic, it's closer to 2.75" wide, which is typical for a 2.5" SATA drive).

It's 7mm tall.
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