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Review on πŸ’Ύ Western Digital 1TB WD Green SSD - High-Speed SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, 550 MB/s by Bobby Martinez

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Saved my Dell Inspiron from crashing

A few years ago I bought a processor for a Dell Inspiron (I3) laptop with the intention of him as a spare. . The PC suffered from a miserable boot time - up to 35 minutes. I couldn't fix it in task manager. I tried replacing the standard 1TB hard drive with a 1TB WD Green hard drive. Download time <1 minute (about 30 seconds). The computer responds quickly. Installation took 2.5-3 hours. I used Acronis to clone HD. It took a long time to prepare the original CD. Maybe 30 minutes writing to the target WD SSD. The wheel change took 15 minutes. For 10 of those 15 minutes I was looking for a screw that fell out, hit the table and bounced off into an unknown dimension. The first boot from the SSD went smoothly and took less than a minute. The laptop runs flawlessly and is incredibly fast compared to the original drive. I've read reviews of Blue VS Green SSDs. If I was going to use this laptop for heavy use with high I/O speeds, I probably wouldn't have bought the Green. But then this laptop is not Dell with an I3 processor. Estimated lifespan of green is up to 1.0 million hours. that's almost 115 years old. Blue lasts almost 200 years. I may feel sorry for the 2135. This is the third laptop where I have replaced the original drive with an SSD. i had a mistake It was up and running within hours of a hard drive swap. Bottom line, this SSD made this laptop usable.

Pros
  • The free downloadable WD SSD Dashboard makes it easy to keep track of the health of your drive
Cons
  • Expensive