Brand new 120gb WD Green SSD slow asf!

Shou Miko · Nov 10, 2018

@Lionheart

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread but your ASRock 990FX got 2 SATA controller 6 of them from the AMD SB950 chipset and 2 of them from a Marvell SE9120 have you tried to update the drivers to the latest for Windows 10?

If so is it possible to test this out with another controller that's not AMD or Marvell?

AMD Released a new chipset driver 9/4/2018 Link: https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-9-series-chipsets/990fx
DL: https://www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-chipset-drivers_18.10_0830.exe

The driver for the Marvell controller is a bit old but the newest I can find.

Marvel SE9120 Dec 26th, 2016: https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/M...roller-Driver-1-2-0-1049-for-Windows-10.shtml

Try it, it's free could also just be controller in the WD Green that doesn't like the AMD SB950 and Marvel SE9120 controllers.

R0H1T · Nov 10, 2018

This looks a classic case of bait & switch, simple as that.

Gorstak · Nov 10, 2018

I'd suggest ADATA 128GB SU800 if you're looking for a budget drive...

rtwjunkie · Nov 10, 2018

TheLostSwede said:
It's not you, it's the drive. WD has gone and change things around and the WD Green should be avoided at all cost from now on, if this review is anything to go by - https://www.nordichardware.se/test/test-wd-green-med-3d-nand-samre-an-forut.html?/inledning (apologies for it being in Swedish, but some Google translate and looking at the graphs should help).
It's technically a USB 3.0 drive with a SATA interface. It's one of the slowest SSDs they've ever tested, which speaks volume for how good it is. The summary calls the performance "lousy".

Totally agree. In the SSD era there is no reason to settle for something this slow. If it’s power savings, that’s ridiculous. There are a lot of really decent drives that use hardly any power. And if it’s cost, there are cheaper drives that outperform it.

Just get a WD Blue 3D. They are great and very affordable. I use one as my Server OS drive.

Splinterdog · Nov 10, 2018

Spotted somewhere else:
"I’m currently dealing with a simple RMA of a failed WD Red drive.. I would not wish this for my worst enemy. Satan is heading WD’s customer service. "

MIRTAZAPINE · Nov 10, 2018

Looking at the sequential write it not right. Can't be that slow. The 4k random io speed is pretty pathetic in this era of ssd drive. Even ssd from 2013 and before is faster, even my samsung 256GB
ssd in my macbook 2011 is faster than that wd green! Got to be one of the crappiest ssd I have ever seen.

I do agree SSD controller and type of Nand play a huge impact on speed, bigger capacity may not compensate well. I miss my Crucial MX100 although I am currently running on an Sandisk plus 480GB ssd it is still slower than my Crucial Mx100 in responsiveness.

rtwjunkie · Nov 10, 2018

MIRTAZAPINE said:
Sandisk plus

There is another very decent affordable line. Of course owned by WD now, and is basically what their Blue drives are.

Lionheart · Nov 10, 2018

puma99dk| said:
@Lionheart

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread but your ASRock 990FX got 2 SATA controller 6 of them from the AMD SB950 chipset and 2 of them from a Marvell SE9120 have you tried to update the drivers to the latest for Windows 10?

If so is it possible to test this out with another controller that's not AMD or Marvell?

AMD Released a new chipset driver 9/4/2018 Link: https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-9-series-chipsets/990fx
DL: https://www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-chipset-drivers_18.10_0830.exe

The driver for the Marvell controller is a bit old but the newest I can find.

Marvel SE9120 Dec 26th, 2016: https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/M...roller-Driver-1-2-0-1049-for-Windows-10.shtml

Try it, it's free could also just be controller in the WD Green that doesn't like the AMD SB950 and Marvel SE9120 controllers.

Thanks dude, appreciate it, will give it a shot. :toast:

Shou Miko · Nov 10, 2018

Lionheart said:
Thanks dude, appreciate it, will give it a shot.

I want to try to help. Make a restore point in Windows 10 before updating the chipset driver and Marvell sata driver.

I hope myself it will help and not a weird quirk with the WD Green SSD and the old AMD/Marvel SATA Controller.

Vario · Nov 10, 2018

Lionheart said:
Jesus christ that bad aye. Yeah I think I've learnt my lesson, get a blue WD or stick with the quality samsung evo/pro drives

lol it's all good. Yeah I need to actually read up reviews next time when purchasing an SSD, instead of assuming they're all naturally fast.

Always research the specific model number, in case they bait and switch by renaming the Green SSD to be "Blue" like they did the HDD.

suraswami · Nov 10, 2018

My Samsung SSD on my server has similar issue, I have to go and enable write-caching every time I have to reboot the server. Some kind of Driver issue, still haven't figured it out. It is only my home server OS drive on a AM1 platform, so didn't care about it, I will have to rebuild it as some point.

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