Western Digital Green 240 GB Internal SSD M.2 SATA, Green-Performance

Great bit of kit at a great price.

Installed in a Dell Netbook (cheap low-powered laptop). I found the netbook was struggling performance wise with a standard hard drive, so purchased this SSD and the difference is staggering. The netbook is now more responsive and boot up is literally 5 secs- this has made the netbook more useable again. People spend hundreds on new processors and memory for pcs in the search for speed gains, however as an IT engineer for the last 20yrs, I can assure you that the best bang-for-bucks upgrade you can do for your system is replace the hard drive with an SSD. The Western Digital brand is a solid, reliable make which is backed up with a decent 3yr replacement warranty for piece of mind. Easy to install on most systems, this upgrade will improve your system and bootup time. Highly recommend and probably the cheapest/quickest upgrade you can make to any current PC system.

For me this WD 2Tb SSD was a fantastic option, as an upgrade for my Laptop and worth the money. Even though I bought and installed the WD GREEN SSD's for what I needed this SSD for, mainly gaming and fight simulators. Then adding this SSD into my Lenovo IdealPad 500-15ISK laptop gave me fantastic performance increase. Where games took 5 - 7 minutes to load, on a aging HDD. This same software loads and is playable, within 1 -2 minutes. Which is better measure of performance, rather that 200/300Mbps read/write times. Also added benefits swapping to this SSD gives me, Upgrading or applying software on my laptop, is much a faster, backing up my disk contents is faster, remote or network access to disk contents, much faster.I just wish I had done this upgrade a few years ago. If you are currently on the fence around purchasing this product.......then don't be, it is worth it. Trust me when it comes to every-day performance, then WD Green is a good as, WD Blue and will give your old Laptop or PC a new lease of life

Bought this device to bring back life to an 8 year old HP DV2 laptop that was struggling with Windows 10.The device arrived in a standard retail box with a few instruction on the packaging but no software or any USB to SATA connection cable to facilitate the transfer of data and operating system. If you don't already have such a cable or facility then you may want to find a SSD which comes with this cable and software included.The recommened software to facilitate the transfer of OS/data to the SSD is AOMEI and is available online. The standard (Free) version is sufficient to transfer the OS and data and will allow, if required, the current main disk content to be transfered to a smaller SSD.The SSD itself comes out of the box in an unformatted state and therefore requires an initial formating process to be performed. This needs to be done using the "Disk Management" page facilities of windows 10. NTFS is the recommended format but others are available if required. SSD's can usually be sucessfully formatted using the Quick format method.Once the disk is formatted the AOMEI software is used to transfer the os and data. This can take over an hour depending upon the amount of data to transfer. Once complete the current main disk needs to be removed and the SSD put into its place. The PC should then boot up on the SSD and work as before.On my aging DV2 boot up and general running of programmes was greatly improved. The computer also stopped using a memory card used for readyboost as it stated that the computer was fast enough not to require it.Overall I was very pleased with the result. The PC now runs at an acceptable level for general domestic use.Other things you may want to consider. The SSD described here is a Western Digital Green. Western Digital also do a blue version. The difference is in the way and speed that data is written to the internal chips. The green version is not as fast at writing big files as the blue version is. Also both the Green and Blue version have a SATA version 3 interface. Old PC's like my DV2 have a SATA Version 2 interface (compatable with V3) that runs at half the speed of V3. As such fitting a blue to my PC would be of little benefit.SSD's have a life (number of writes) associated with them. For most domestic use PC's this should not be an issue. If the PC is heavily used (ie high graphics video mastering,CAD, etc.) it might also be worth increasing your computers memory (if possible) to reduce the workload on the SSD. Most SDD manufacturers produce software that examines their SDD's and can determine their health/remaining life. This software can usually be downloaded free from the manufactures sites.

I'm going to start off by saying I'm exceptionally pleased with this product. A fair few reviews moan about the speed of the drive, and to be fair there are faster drives out there for a bit more money but at this price point, it offered a significant update on the SATA 5400 RPM HDD, in my ageing system.In fact, it's worlds apart!My computer boots up and is ready to go in less than 25 seconds (including logging in) which is long way off the minutes it used to take. If you have to have the absolute fastest, spend a bit more and go for that but this drive is not slow by any means.The only real negative I could find was that there is no guidance on installation/troubleshooting, not a problem for me, I know my way around a pc, but it could be daunting for the less experienced.Have to say that installing the drive, clean installing Windows 10 on it and booting up went really smoothly. It's a godsend now I'm working at home, setting up for the day takes no time at all.

Fast delivery and a good price for these WD green new models. WD is a respectable brand one of the oldest in the market, so I trust it! Also, I never had issues with WD.