WD Green SN3000 500 GB vs WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN 500 GB

Short answer: which is best?

WD Green SN3000 500 GB is 119 % stronger than WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN 500 GB. WD Green SN3000 500 GB ranks #5 of 134 measured system drives at WhatFPS (16,530 Drive score in its best run — best of 2 rigs, 3 verified runs). WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN 500 GB ranks #89 of 134 measured system drives at WhatFPS (7,549 Drive score in its best run — 1 rig, 1 verified run). Each part is shown at its best run, picked from 4 verified WhatFPS runs — measured, not estimated, not self-reported.

Measured comparison

MetricWD Green SN3000 500 GBWDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN 500 GB
Drive score, best run (the drive's own performance: sequential read + 4K IOPS)16,5307,549
Best rig (GAMING — whole PC)9,1781,849
Sequential read4,129 MB/s1,973 MB/s
4K IOPS23,22710,137
4K latency, median (lower is better)38 µs88 µs
TypeNVMe SSDNVMe SSD
Size500 GB500 GB

What the numbers mean

The headline score is the part's best measured run, and the measurements under it come from that same run. It shows what the part has been proven to do — not what an average rig gets out of it. The drive score is the system drive's measured performance in the rigs it sat in — sequential read and 4K IOPS, unbuffered. PCIe generation, fill level and driver affect it. GAMING is the whole rig's score. We show both and never mix them.

All numbers come from our benchmark suite, the same test on every PC, written in Rust with no middleware. The methodology is open at https://whatfps.com/metodik

All measurements for WD Green SN3000 500 GB · All measurements for WDBRPG5000ANC-WRSN 500 GB