Western Digital WD Green 1TB SATA III 6Gb/s, 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive

A couple years ago I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop (I3) processor with the intention of using it as a spare. The PC suffered from lousy boot times-as much as 35 minutes. I couldn't fix that in task manager. I tried replacing the standard 1tb HD with a WD Green 1tb hard drive. Boot time is <1 minute (ca 30 seconds). The computer has fast snappy response.Installation took 2.5-3 hrs. I used Acronis to clone the HD. It spent a very long time preparing the source disk. Maybe 30 minutes writing to the WD SSD target. It took 15 minutes to swap the drives. 10 of that 15 minutes was looking for a screw that fell out, hit the table and bounced into some unknown dimension.Initial boot up with the SSD was without problem and took less than a minute. The laptop has performed flawlessly and blazingly fast compared to the original drive.I read the reviews on Blue VS Green ssd drives. If I were going to use this laptop for high i/o, intensive use, I probably wouldn't have bought the Green. But then this laptop wouldn't be Dell with an I3 processor. The estimated life expectancy of the green is up to 1.0 million hours. that's just under 115 years. The blue would last just under 200 years. I may be sorry in 2135. This is the 3rd laptop I've replaced the original drive with an SSD. I've had one failure. It was up and running within a couple of hours of getting the replacement drive.The bottom line is this SSD made this laptop usable.

I bought this 1TB WD Green SSD to replace a very old HDD on my dinosaur Windows 7 desktop. I used the free Acronis download from WD clone the old system drive. Acronis make this so easy. Cloning and startup went flawlessly.Pro:Lowest price per GB I could find anywhereUS based, name-brand, industry-leading companyFast enough for my very old PCFree Acronis download made installation EASYWin-7 Boot time increased TEN FOLDSO QUIET !!ConNot quite as fast as higher-priced mainstream drivesI spent HOURS of Black Friday research and stress to select this specific drive. I was torn between Seagate and WD, as both are industry leaders and US based. I have lost Seagate drives in the past, I've never lost a WD drive, so I went with WD. I went with WD Green(slow) instead of WD Blue (Fast) because green is substantially less money, and, this old system can't really go that fast.I've very happy with this purchase. I only regret not doing this long ago. After the holidays, I will buy another to upgrade the wife's old computer.

I bought 3 of these total and upgraded my work PC, my work laptop and my wife's PC. This was the best upgrade I have made to our computers in years and it was super low cost. Boot times are 100% faster. It's like getting a new computer but better. These were really easy to install and there are plenty of instructional you tube videos but you can be logical and figure it out. I have been running drives for about a month with no issues and best of all no sound.By nature SSD have no moving parts and what's noticeable is the lack of sound or noise coming from my computers now. All in all I would buy more but don't need more.

This SSD hard drive is doing it's job and doing it well. It's silent as compared to my original SATA hard drive. I have noticed a faster loading of software and retrieving of data.I didn't install it myself. My son, the computer expert, did all of the hard work, including transferring all of the data and software from my old hard drive. The installation seemed to be pretty easy, no difficulties arose. The harder part was loading the information from the old drive to the SSD drive. But that's not what this review is about; just the drive itself.I'd recommend this item to anyone considering changing or adding a second drive to their system.