Western Digital240GB GREEN SSD M.2 SATA III 6GB/S

I've bought many Western Digital Blue SSDs but this is my first green one and I wasn't disappointed. I installed it for my a basic Dynabook to double the size of the SSD. This SSD has improved the performance of the PC and it was easy to install too. The and the disk cloning software made for an easy migration and Western Digital have plenty of support resources online to help answer any questions you might have, so that even a novice like me can upgrade their laptop.

I bought this to use with the Argon40 m.2 case for the Raspberry Pi 4. It works very well as a boot drive for my Pi.

This drive has had plenty of excellent reviews so although I can't give it a 5, it is more than likely better than a 3!There wasn't anything that I disliked about this drive other than it wouldn't fit the intended enclosure it was purchased for (yes, I did order the correct drive / enclosure combination!). The drive seemed to be built to an excellent standard!The problem seemed to be that the enclosure was such a tight fit it was putting undue stress on the drive, and I wouldn't force it to fit! I had also tried another drive from another manufacturer and this had the same issue! The enclosure was returned btw.

This small wafer of an SSD took only a few minutes to install in the expansion bay on my laptop. The laptop's original built-in 32GB SSD couldn't even run Windows 10, so I ditched Windows and installed Ubuntu Mate, which is fast and uses a fraction of the disk space. When I decided to go for more storage I chose the Western Digital Green 250GB SATA SSD, finding it very easy to install physically in the laptop and remarkably straightforward to set up.With the laptop switched off (of course) I opened the expansion cover on the underside (2 small screws) and took out the screw provided for securing the new SSD. The small circuit board easily went into place and was gripped firmly by the connector inside. I restarted the laptop after securing the SSD with the screw provided inside the expansion bay, and replacing the cover.The new unformatted SSD didn't appear on the desktop, so I opened the Ubuntu Settings menu, clicked Hardware/Discs and the new drive showed up immediately on the list. Formatting it (I chose All Systems format) was so fast it looked like nothing had happened, but that was it - formatted. There are other formatting and partitioning options but I chose the basic one - format the whole drive as one.On restart the drive didn't show up on the desktop, so back to Ubuntu Settings/Hardware/Discs, selected the drive from the list and then I clicked on the Settings icon for the drive, chose Edit Mount Option and clicked on Mount on Startup. Restarted, and all good, mounted on desktop, ready to go.Never done this before, guessed most of the steps, all very simple.

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