Review on Upgrade Your Computer with Western Digital WDS120G2G0B WD Green 120GB Solid State Drive - SATA - M.2 2280 by Stanisaw Lewczuk ᠌

1. SPEEDS 1.1. Linear speed (like writing a large file to disk, such as a video or archive) Under the SLC cache with an empty disk, 2.5 gigabytes are allocated, within which it writes about 300 megabits / sec. Then it drops to 75 megabits / sec. Reading stable 500 megabits / sec. A 16.8 gigabyte file was copied to this ssd for about 3 minutes (2 minutes 48 seconds) And from this ssd to NVME 35 seconds. 1.2. A set of chaotic data (such as constantly saving something to a bunch of files, for example, compiling Linux or unpacking a bunch of files) When the disk is empty, the first 17 gigs are written at a speed of 50 megabits / sec, then and to the end the speed decreases to about 25 megabits / sec (average is about 37). Reading starts from 140 and further, apparently when the controller is optimized, it grows to about 180 megabits / sec (average is about 175). 2. TEMPERATURES At idle it was 43 degrees, with an intensive test it didn’t rise above 48 at room temperature about 25. If it’s not under the vidyuhi, then I think it doesn’t need a radiator. Shupal finger - the hottest controller, mikruha just behind the green part of the sticker. 3. SUMMARY In general, it resembles a regular hard drive, but with lightning-fast data access. If there is no need to write to it constantly large files such as rips from the blue-ray or frequent changes of games weighing under a hundred gigs, then it will do. PS. There are no problems with the new chipsets. There may be problems with adapters to IDE (detected but cannot work normally) Tested in the first M2 slot of the Asus Maximus Hero IX motherboard, it allows you to run both SATA and PCIE drives.