Question WD green ssd very slow

[EIitePro]

i have a wd green ssd (WDS240G2G0B) and for some reason its very slow
here are crystal disk mark score with nothing running in the background

is this normal for a ssd to be this slow or am i doing something wrong over here?


system specs
I7 8750h
8GB 2666mhz single channel memory
Gtx 1060
WD green 250 gb ssd main drive

 

[rgd1101]

full system spec?

 

[ElectrO_90]

If this is your main drive, then the stats don't tell the truth because your computer is always doing stuff, which slows down the main drive

 

[EIitePro]

If this is your main drive, then the stats don't tell the truth because your computer is always doing stuff, which slows down the main drive

i have on average 1-2% idle system usage so it cant be my system

 

[mdd1963]

I did not know there even were Green SSDs....

but, I suspect this drive likely has next to no cache for speed, and must slowly write everything...

They are calling it 'green' for some reason....; probably slow on top of everything else....

 

[mdd1963]

I'd make an image to an external USB spinning drive, and clone this image to a Corsairn MX500 and replace the Green SSD....

 

[AllanGH]

Greens are cacheless and pretty-much bottom of the barrel when it comes to SSDs.

Replacing it with a Samsung EVO sounds like a good move.

 

[EIitePro]

Greens are cacheless and pretty-much bottom of the barrel when it comes to SSDs.

Replacing it with a Samsung EVO sounds like a good move.

yes i do understand they greens are very bad but they are the only SSDs i can afford here (everything overprced here) and the speeds i am getting are worse than others users so i wanted to know wat are they doing and i am not

 

[mdd1963]

Lots of folks complaining on the Green SSDs, although the benchmark numbers look good when they are used as simple secondary storage drives, they are rumored to rival the speed of molasses in January when used as an OS drive due to lack of write cache...

I doubt your CrstalDIskMark numbers achieved are really fixable....

 

[mdd1963]

Western Digital has their own testing software (simllar to Samsung's Magician) that might help at least determine if it meets their specs...

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23377

 

[EIitePro]

this a benchmark from another user see how his 4k reads are higher than mine and i am even running only 2gb per test. Yes the green is really bad but mines just seems to be worse

 

[rgd1101]

And your ssd is getting full too.
stop worry about it
laptop on using single channel.

 

[EIitePro]

i wouldn't be worrying about if the task ppl do in 9 mins my ssd did in 45 (installing game ) so yes its definitely a concern for me as i was planning to upgrade my ram now considering instead to upgrade my ssd

 

[rgd1101]

do exact what task that took peopel 9 min vs 45min?
what the size of the game. running anything else on the disk.
like we said the ssd have no cache, and it your own disk, so it share resource with other process.