Easy to fit and is working well very fast boot up with plenty of space for my programsGone from 90 seconds boot up to 15 seconds boot up well please with the product

Easy upgrade to make - replaced a smaller NVMe drive. WD cloning software worked well. Only time will tell whether the WD Green drive is reliable in the long term.

AMAZING SSD

Don't let the other people in this comment section fool you! The amount of speed that I have been getting with the 2tb model is up to specifications and is way faster compared to a standard 7200 RPM HDD.

Conflicting Specifications Make This SSD Bad

This is a very slow Gen 2 SSD. The spec sheet on WD.com says it's 3200 read and 2900 write but it's actually 2400 MB/S read and 900 MB/S write. The latter is stated on one web page and the faster speed is stated on the spec sheet. You can buy a faster 2TB Gen 3 SSD for $20 more at Micro Center or at Amazon under the label Inland Platinum. Due to misleading advertising I sent mine back for a refund.

Good entry level

I usually stay away from green because it's usually not that much more to purchase blue, but I think at the time it was a big enough difference to justify. I paired it with an Intel J4125, so benchmarks will be meaningless, but they were faster than SATA and well under the advertised speeds. I didn't check it in a more capable system, however, it did make the mini-pc powered by the J4125 snappy and responsive. They are built to a cost,but also built well. If you owned a Samsung, WD Black, or other premium NVME, you'll notice the difference in build quality. Also, the sticker doesn't cover the chips, for anyone that want's to put a heatsink on. I was able to use two Raspberry Pi heatsinks on the only two chips it has (480 GB model). On a laptop, if it's a choice ... MoreI usually stay away from green because it's usually not that much more to purchase blue, but I think at the time it was a big enough difference to justify. I paired it with an Intel J4125, so benchmarks will be meaningless, but they were faster than SATA and well under the advertised speeds. I didn't check it in a more capable system, however, it did make the mini-pc powered by the J4125 snappy and responsive. They are built to a cost,but also built well. If you owned a Samsung, WD Black, or other premium NVME, you'll notice the difference in build quality. Also, the sticker doesn't cover the chips, for anyone that want's to put a heatsink on. I was able to use two Raspberry Pi heatsinks on the only two chips it has (480 GB model). On a laptop, if it's a choice between this a a SATA M.2, I'd go with this. I also do recommend price shopping, and checking things like length of warranty (because sometimes there is no price difference between devices with similar specifications).

Good product. Works as intended.

Recommended to other people. Hopefully the drive lasts quite a while. Make sure before you buy a drive like this with a fast rated speed your motherboard can support it. I made the mistake of buying a pci-e x4 nvme card & quickly found out my motherboard doesn't have any of those slots, just 1 pci-e x16 slot (gpu already using this) & 2 pci-e x1 slots. So had to buy a pci-e x 1 nvme card instead which works but now only getting 25% of the fastest speed this drive is capable of. Still faster than a sata ssd but not by much. My bad.

Great NVMe SSD! It's FAST!

Don't let other comments here bout speed not being as advertised sway your decision. Just because the reviewer didn't achieve those speeds doesn't mean the listed speeds are incorrect. It just means their system isn't capable of those speeds or isn't configured properly. It all depends on your system chipset and settings. Quite a few variables to say the least. For me, I just popped it in and formatted it and I'm getting 3240MB/s read & 2560MB/s write. Tested with crystaldiskmark using 1GB file size. It's not as fast as the newest gen 4's but it's the quarter of the price. You must have a new new system with pcie gen 4 in order to get faster. If you do have new system see if it's pcie gen 4 and if so, and want faster check out western digitals gen 4 drives. My ... MoreDon't let other comments here bout speed not being as advertised sway your decision. Just because the reviewer didn't achieve those speeds doesn't mean the listed speeds are incorrect. It just means their system isn't capable of those speeds or isn't configured properly. It all depends on your system chipset and settings. Quite a few variables to say the least. For me, I just popped it in and formatted it and I'm getting 3240MB/s read & 2560MB/s write. Tested with crystaldiskmark using 1GB file size. It's not as fast as the newest gen 4's but it's the quarter of the price. You must have a new new system with pcie gen 4 in order to get faster. If you do have new system see if it's pcie gen 4 and if so, and want faster check out western digitals gen 4 drives. My operating system drive is a 1TB WD Black with the WD heat sync and RGB lighting. My speeds on that one are 7026/5141 Which is more than double the speed of my storage WD green. Honestly either drive is a thousand percent better than traditional spinning hard drives which range from 50-200MB/s read & write. 50-75 is the norm with 200 being the absolute perfect setup with the best drives available. Don't think twice, buy WD SSD's and you won't go wrong.

Great little budget M.2 WD Green

This M.2 is tiny and seems to be working great for my family room Ryzen 2200G htpc. No problems with it so far. I want to buy another cause the price is so great for such a compact form factor drive. If cables are a problem in your sff/itx pc build this little budget M.2 is great.

Product and Delivery

I decided to build a New computer, all Components were sound and delivery was here (Tasmania) within 7 days.However, EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED with the amount of plastic that came with the delivery, mind you i understand the components and you guys getting them in is one thing, However, the endless amount of black plastic wrap on the outside, and unnecessary use for example, my keyboard came in a plastic slip, that loose it did nothing, but also a cupboard box.... Why the need of the plastic slip?

The best budget NVMe drive

For less than $80 the WD Green nvme was a great deal. I'm getting the full read speed around 3100+ Mbps. Moving files around a Gb or two, it doesn't even let the file transfer window show up, it's going too fast lolI noticed a decent difference in load times in games like RDR2 and Cyberpunk over my 7200rpm drive. A couple seconds faster to enter the game and no wait for the texture and shadows to load. So for the most part the drive passes my tests.As long as the drive has a decent lifespan I'll say this was a wonderful purchase!