WD GREEN 480GB SLOW?

[Alan GE]

Hi.

 

I had Kingston ssd 120gb and i upgraded to wd green 480GB.

 

I had no issues with the Kingston in terms of speed .. 

 

now the wd green is acting weird ..if I ran any installer on the wd green for a game the whole pc lags .

 

even when i boot up the pc .. i have to wait a minute or two so the pc becomes usable (all the apps on startup are disabled)

 

I did a test with CDM

i tried installing windows 11.. thought maybe its from windows 10 .. it's not usable at all  

 

 

Any idea whats going on here?

[YoungBlade]

Have you made sure that TRIM has been run recently?

 

In Windows you can go to "Defragment and Optimize Drives" to see how long ago TRIM was run. If it hasn't been run in a few months, click on the drive, then click "Optimize" to run it.

[Alan GE]

5 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Have you made sure that TRIM has been run recently?

 

In Windows you can go to "Defragment and Optimize Drives" to see how long ago TRIM was run. If it hasn't been run in a few months, click on the drive, then click "Optimize" to run it.

13 days since last retrim

[Alan GE]

17 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Have you made sure that TRIM has been run recently?

 

In Windows you can go to "Defragment and Optimize Drives" to see how long ago TRIM was run. If it hasn't been run in a few months, click on the drive, then click "Optimize" to run it.

feels a little bit better. after optimizing 

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Alan GE said:

What's with the 16% life remaining?  Is this a used drive someone did storage-based mining on?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, oofki said:

I don’t think greens have cache. Their blues and blacks do 

Nope, they don't. Hence why they're WD's lowest tier of drives.

[BondiBlue]

It would help to see a report from CrystalDiskInfo. That drive health doesn't look right unless the drive has been used a ton. I've got drives that are over a decade old that are nowhere near that worn out, and even for a low end drive like a Green I wouldn't expect that much wear from normal use. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

It would help to see a report from CrystalDiskInfo. That drive health doesn't look right unless the drive has been used a ton. I've got drives that are over a decade old that are nowhere near that worn out, and even for a low end drive like a Green I wouldn't expect that much wear from normal use. 

I think they are already using Western Digital Dashboard.  If true I would trust that over anything else as vendors often use SMART records in a none-standard way.

[Whatisthis]

If there is 16% life remaining, it means a lot of the NAND cells have gone bad. You are on the verge of data loss. Return the drive to wherever you got it from and don’t trust that seller. You have a damaged or severely worn out drive on your hands.

[Alan GE]

11 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

What's with the 16% life remaining?  Is this a used drive someone did storage-based mining on?

I have been using it for  2 months or so ... even my kingston ssd had like 80% after 4 years of usage  ... also  had one nvme green from wd it broke also .. idk 

[Alan GE]

11 hours ago, Caroline said:

16% life left that drive is TOAST man.

 

What does Crystal disk info report? even my oldest drive has 98% left...

 

[Alan GE]

submitted RMA on Westren digital website .. luckily they gonna replace it .