How good are Western Digital's SSDs?

[ThomasMateo]

Just looking for a super-cheap 120GB SSD as a boot drive and this caught my attention:

I’ve a few questions:

1. Are they any fast?
2. Does WD’s SSD’s has a “Samsung Magician” like desktop utility program that lets you monitor your SSD’s health etc and lets you optimize it etc?
3. I’ve an another option https://snaptube.cam/. Its from a company called “Adata” (Never heard of it) and comes with a 20 month warranty, whereas the WD’s comes with just 1 year warranty. Do you think it’s better than WD? What about Kingston SSDs?
4. I live in a hot climate and my CPU/GPU idle at around 45c in summer. Will the high temperatures have an adverse effect on an SSD’s life expectancy? I want it to last at least a few years! Three years at the very minimum!
5. Any other recommendations?

Thanks!

[flhthemi]

1. ANY SSD is going to be faster than your old HDDs ever were.
2. Yes the WD Dashboard
3. I have an Adata seems just as quick as my WD SSDs to me.
4. Shouldn’t be an issue BUT you could always add a small fan to the SSDs case.
5. I’m a WD fan so…I like the ones I have had here on my HTPCs for the past couple years.

My old PC was the first computer I installed an SSD in. It’s a Celeron CPU ~2ghz dual core. It would take Windows 10 about 1+ minute to boot to the desktop. WD 500GB SSD boots it in about 20 seconds. That fast enough for you?

[Cosara]

@ThomasMateo

Any other recommendations?

Why only 120GB ?
Why a WD Green 120GB PC SSD ??
If you noticed the many problems on this forum, you must be lucky to get it working.

Why not choose a Samsung 860 EVO 2,5 inch 250GB ???
Almost for free, and with 5 year warranty, and with Samsung Magician, and with almost no installation problems.

SATA 6 Gb/s Interface, compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s & SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface,
Up to 550 MB/s Sequential Read,
Up to 520 MB/s Sequential Write,
MTBF 1.5 Million Hours Reliability,
5 Years Limited Warranty - which is to say, don’t hit it with a hammer and don’t throw it off your tenth-floor balcony.