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This WD Green SATA SSD was new and I put it in an older PC that has am3 which I use mainly for Netflix and learning java. My kids have used it for Roblox as it can run simple games but it's very lightly used. I think the disk might even be under warranty, but I'm curious as to whether this report is real or some sort of glitch. Hope someone more knowledgeable can weigh in. Thanks!
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Hi, I was thinking of backing up my 4TB storage drive (WD Green 5400RPM). Before I made any purchases for backups I decided to check the health of the drive itself and got this concerning result. I've never used crystal disk before and a few google searches turned up nothing more than a recommendation to replace the drive. Does anyone know what it means exactly and if there's anything I can do short of replacing the drive? Thanks
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So I only have these 3 options in my area. I just want a 240GB one to install windows and maybe some games which take a long time to load. So which one will be better? -
From the album: Skylake Desktop Build 2015
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From the album: Skylake Desktop Build 2015
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I'm curious to know how my WD Green performs, but I'm not sure what settings to use. I'd also like to see benchmarks from anyone who feels like testing their HDD.
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I have a WD green 1TB HDD in my computer I had almost 200 GB of space free after uninstallING some games CHECKed and saw that I had 2.04% fragemation, so I defragmented it and scanned again and saw I was at 1.94 %fragmentation The reason I defragmented was because it was starting to get slower in load times Is it time to give up on this hard drive
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I have WD Green 2TB, and it has raw read error rate but it's write OK on Smart table, it has very low speed (50mb), after WD Dlg Surface test OK, the speed up to 120 The question is if I need to change it in store? I have 2 month for end of 2 year warranty.
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So I have bought 2 WD Green M.2 SSDs for my unRAID NAS and being the idiot I am not realising that I cannot run a SATA III SSD in an NVMe port as it fits, but will not pick up. Is there any way I can rectify this, as the point was to buy a couple SSDs for a redundant cache on my server. Thanks. The motherboard is a Asrock B450M Pro4 with 2 M.2 ports, 1 is SATA and the other NMVe.
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Hello. I have a 13” MacBook Air (Early 2015) model which I bought during my college days which has only 128 GB internal storage. 128 GB was less and I didn’t want to spend as much money for the 256 GB upgrade, so since then I was using a Samsung Evo Plus 128 GB microSDXC card. I want to learn Photoshop now and when I installed the software, Photoshop kept saying that there isn’t space for caching. I cleared storage on my Mac but there was only so much that I could delete. I am also trying to learn Final Cut Pro X, so I installed the trial 2 days ago, and when I was trying to use it, I quickly ran out of space on the internal SSD. So I deleted the rendered files and the cache, and tried putting it on the 128 GB microSDXC card since I get a write of around 85 MB/s and read of 90-100 MB/s on it. That didn’t work for Photoshop and that only made the entire FCPX experience a lot slower. So I looked around a bit and found people suggesting to get an external SSD. I wanted to get the T5 from Samsung but that was way too expensive for my budget at the moment. I had an old Transcend 2.5” internal HDD/SSD enclosure casing. So I decided to buy an internal SSD and use the Transcend enclosure. Now, I want to keep the cost as low as possible, so I am considering only the cheapest SSDs out there right now. My choices currently are the WD Green 240 GB (SATA 3 Interface one), Kingston A400 240 GB and Crucial BX500 240 GB 3D NAND SATA. I looked at their spec-sheet but couldn’t make much out of it because the terms look very similar. Of the three, which do you think will offer the best performance in my particular case scenario? TL;DR: I need to buy a 2.5” SSD that I can use with my Transcend internal HDD/SSD enclosure and choices are the WD Green 240 GB (SATA 3 Interface one), Kingston A400 240 GB and Crucial BX500 240 GB 3D NAND SATA due to their low cost. I intend to use the drive to store Photoshop cache files and Final Cut Pro X render files. Which one would you suggest? Thanks for the help.
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I know, I know, 860 Evo is obviously quite faster than wd green but the price is around double for the same capacity. My main concern is how much of a difference will I see in real life. Programs I use are Microsoft Office products, Multiple browsers with lots of extensions and tabs, photoshop, illustrator, Zotero and occasional SolidWorks. These are the applications I could come up from the top of my head. Usually, my windows setup has lots of applications which I rarely use but I like to keep it that way. So, I want to know the difference I will notice and where I will notice if I go with WD Green. Links: WD Green ssd ~ 39$ 860 Evo ~ 68$
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*WARNING THIS PC IS PURELY A PROJECT DO NOT SUGGEST "UPGRADE TO A NEW PLATFORM" YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME AND MINE* Mk G'day guys sorry for the long back story but its somewhat important. i recently started a project i call the "TrasHP". The TrasHP was originally a HP of some form i found beaten in and not posting at the local transfer station. I took it home messed around with the Ram and got it posting with its i3 540 and 4gb of ram. afterwards i found an old dead mobo also at the same place with an i5 750 that shockingly posted despite being very faded along with 10gb of mismatch ram. After that all it needed was a GPU, so i turned to Gumtree and got a $20 (AUD) HD 6870 ref model and used it in pair with the old 475w Dell PSU originally out of my main rig. Now that's all well n good and the PC runs like a champ with the 6870 overclocked 950mhz on core and 1150mhz on memory BUT there's a problem, i'm getting FPS lower than i should in some games for instance GTA V, Spintires and CSGO especially which ive seen seperate benchmarks on youtube of both the 6870 and the i5 750 in CSGO and in both tests they were capable of keeping a playable and quite nice fps but with my pairing they struggle to keep 60fps without stutter. As for GTA V well my other project pc which had a Q6600@2.9GHZ/GTX550ti combo it ran GTA V rather well along with Spin Tires. Now specifically in GTA V the CPU usage is basically always at 99%-100% load which ok yeah its an old CPU that makes sense BUT i5 750 is a stronger CHIP than the Q6600 no question about it so it should run better and it doesn't seem like its an ordinary CPU bottleneck as changing settings to try and put load on the GPU (to test for bottlenecks) does nothing to effect the FPS so my thought is HDD. Now for a HDD i took the first HDD i saw on my shelf which was a WD Green 2TB which i do not deny is a shit drive, WD Green's always have been but i thought bugger it that should do its only temporary and the system is decently responsive in ordinary tasks but i feel like that's whats causing the high CPU usage in games some how, maybes it's me mis-remembering but I'm sure i read a few years back that slow drives can cause higher CPU usage some how. So after all that, any idea's? Cheers Guys
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I wanted to install my wd green m.2 SATA SSD into my new ASUS S510, but the SSD is not showing up on the BIOS or the device manager. Is there a way to check whether the SSD is at fault ? or am I doing something wrong ?
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Hello, I wanted to build my first PC... With a budget of around 50,000 Rupees ~ 700 USD Here's my problem : My motherboard is MSI Pro series B450M PRO-VDH for the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G.. It says that it has Turbo M.2 Slot... In some pictures (about m.2 SSDs) that I found in the internet have the pins split into two groups. But some have pins split into three groups... I don't know which one I have to buy for my PC... Check the images.... PC Specs: Motherboard : MSI Pro Series B450M PRO-VDH Processor : AMD Ryzen 5 2400G RAM : G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 16GB (8GB X 2) @ 3200 MHz SSD : Problem... PSU : Corsair VS450 I don't want to spend money cause its hard to return the order... And I am ordering this Amazon If you guys know which one fits my Motherboard, please reply me...
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please help my WD10EARS-00Y5B1 ATA Device isn't detected in the bios its a 3.5 inch wd green drive , i have 2 of the same exact drive i tried to make one for the data and the other for the os and as a backup for it i used windows installer for windows 7 to re-partition them so at one point i made one partition "logical" and the other one ( the one im currently using ) i didnt do anything to it i shut down my computer , unplugged the sata cable from it and went back to the installer to partition the other drive but now everytime i plug it it doesnt show up in the bios i tried other sata cables and sata power leads but unfortunately nothing happens i just want to get my data back at least thanks my mobo: intel dg41w
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So I was downloading something to my WD green drive (2TB) today. My download speed peaks at 6MB/s. Then when I tried to access movie files on my hard drive, (without the torrent downloading program closed), my windows freezes. Windows explorer forced itself to restart. Everything on the desktop disappeared, then after a few minutes hang, I forced it to shut down. Then I restarted my com, opened the video file on my WD drive, (without opening download software) , it was unplayable. Like you get those jumpy video shots, the whole thing looks like a powerpoint.. So I transferred that video file from my HDD to my system SSD, boom. It is playable now. Everything works fine now. Is all this a signal that my HDD starts to slow down and maybe starts to fail??? I did back up most of the important file on it. So if I lose it now, it does not matter. I am just wondering.
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I've been reading about the WD Green drives and supposedly efficient and quiet they are. I'm considering a HDD sometime this year since my NAS is starting to fill up (mostly porn and backup files). Thinking about maybe 3 or 4 TB. This drive would be inside my PC tower and I prioritize acoustics and energy efficiency. How much of a trade off would I make in speed if I go with the Green drive compared to Blue? They cost about the same. Are the Greens any less or more reliable? Is there another brand out there that would do better for my use case? I don't want seagate, they have failed on me before, never again! -
Hi all. I'm having an issue with my newly built computer, which doesn't occur in any other game, only CS:GO. Basically what happens is when I play CS, there is a brief freeze occasionally (10-15min) of 0.5 seconds and below (a really short freeze), and it's not the audio channel problem, the audio is fine. The sound doesn't loop and there isn't any error message in the console. This only happens to CS:GO, and not my other games like Battlefield 4, Black Ops 3, Crysis 3. They all run butter smooth without any freezing. The interesting thing is that when I get the freeze, this happens: http://imgur.com/un4BxVZ. The core clock and the core voltage both drop slightly during the freeze. Another interesting thing is that when I was scanning my WD Green 2TB drive for bad sectors using HDTune (150 MB/S), there were no freezes for about 40 mins after which I went to sleep. My specs: Intel Core i7-4790k @4.00 GHZ Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1 Corsair H110i GTX Liquid Cooling Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 MHz 2x8GB CL11 Gigabyte/Nvidia GTX 980 Ti G1-Gaming Corsair HX750i PSU Samsung 850 Evo (Boot Drive) WD 2TB Green 64MB (Gaming Drive) <------ CS:GO and other games are here Samsung 24x DVD/RW Write/Read EDIT: I'm on 355.60 Win 10 WHQL Drivers by Nvidia without GF Experience installed.
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Does anyone know which sata cable slot (1, 2, or 3) in my PSU I should plug my WD Green hard drive into and can I hook up my SATA III SSD with the same cable if the answer is SATA III? This is the drive I'm using: http://www.amazon.com/Green-2TB-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B008YAHW6I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1438894667&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+green+2tb
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Hi, I've bought a 3TB Green drive, and I wanted to find out how to short stroke it. Yes I have watched the NCIX video on short stroking using the HD Tune Pro free 15 day trial, but the problem is that I downloaded and used the trial 6 months ago to short stroke my old hard drive. So I wanted to find out if there was another (free) application I could use (since I don't want to spend $40 on something I'll use once) or if I could even do it in windows 8.1.
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Oh my god this is like being forces to type with only one hand! I recently finished tuning up an old machine to use for storage, everything was going swimmingly. Fantastic new case, OS cloned to an SSD and went from power on to desktop in 28 seconds I've now installed my main storage drive which is a 4TB WD green and my PC is definitely doing something with that drive on startup, power on to desktop now takes anywhere between 78 and 114 seconds despite being set to only boot from the SSD in the bios :angry: Anyone have any ideas what is causing this? The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-EG41MF-US2H. This is one of those things that's making me feel really stupid and seriously pissing me off. I would really appreciate any help -
I have been planning to build my first computer for a LOOONG time, and it finally seems like it's happening for real. these are the parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/TsLFqs Everything that says purchased has actually been purchased but I havent bought 4 parts (the frustraion is real) (Motherboard, Case, RAM and Power Suply) but i am about to, should buy those tho? Any last sugestions... (I will buy verything from amazon) thanks
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okay so like any reasonable person, I want to get the most bang from my (upcoming) system, so in terms of storage solutions here's what I've come up with. I'm gonna get a 512gb MX100 and a WD Green (not sure how many tb yet) what I'll do is that I'll install main (like I'll be using constantly) software stuff in MX100 like OS, video editor, etc. and store games and files like videos and photos in the WD Green, then just temporarily transfer files to the MX100 when I'll be using them (like if I'm gonna play games I'll just transfer them and put them back after playing, and transfer videos or photos for when I'll be editing them. not sure about watching thought, will there be any difference from watching movies from an SSD and an HDD?) so yeah that's basically the plan, hoping to get the most bang for my buck is all it is, would you guys give this a thumbs up? if not what other strategies would you guys recommend?
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Hello!, Can anyone advise what configuration of RAID would be best for a reliable and fast workstation memory? I'm not sure which of the following options would be best for this: a total of four 2 TB WD Green drives in RAID 10 configuration ($280 tot. on amazon) vs. two 2 Tb WD Black drive in raid 1. ($250 total on amazon). Any pros and cons I haven't mentioned would be greatly appreciated since I only have experience using a single HDD drive at a time. The computer will also have an SSD strictly for programs and the OS. Thanks for any advice! -PH -
So, my housemate has a WD Green Drive (Internal not an external hiding in a shell), and he had a little board to covert the SATA connection to USB. This was so he could connect it to his laptop. That little board recently went kaput and stopped outputting a USB signal. Do you have any recommendations for SATA to USB Adapters to replace it? It'll need both SATA data and power.
