Silicon Power 256GB SSD 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive SU256GBSS3A55S25AH

With the ridiculous prices of memory right now this was still a good buy. It’s not huge, but def gets the job done. No issue with installing/mounting.

Works great and is much faster than the previous drive in my laptop computer it had a disc drive. It was a simple upgrade for a fairly cheap price. My computer boots up really fast now and I have a ton more storage. This drive is also silent unlike the old disc drive

This is big bang for the buck. It works as promised. There were no issues. I had it running in 30 mins. Flawless. Pros: 1. Works as promised. 2. Comes with free Software called ECHO 3. You can download this software from SP website. The key for this is printed on a sticker on the back of the SSD device. People have used it successfully. I have no idea how it is. I used Macrium Reflect to clone. Just wanted to document here that it comes with a free software for cloning. 3. Results are fantastic. I moved from 85/63 to 510/467 MBPS ! Well most most SSDs give that. Just documenting here that it delivered advertised speed. It could give more may be, but I have a small capacity machine. 4. Look and feel is solid. It is of no value anyway. 5. Price point is excellent. I got 512GB for $57. You would get Samsung 256GB for this price as of Jan/2019. Cons: None so far. Reliability - I have to wait and watch. Other thoughts: 1. SSD Management software is available for free download. But my antivirus stopped it saying unsafe. Read on reviews that it contains TROJAN. So I would not recommend it. You can install something free like Crystal Disk Mark but it would not monitor SMART and other things. It is better to be safe than sorry. However I appreciate them offering something for this price range. 2. I had tried Samsung Data Migration and Macrium Reflect earlier on a Samsug EVO SSD 256GB. It never worked, I had to return it. This one was very easy, it was a breeze. And costs 1/2 the money you would pay for Samsung brand. I think Samsung is just brand marketing. There is nothing much. 3. I need 2TB-4TB SSDs for NAS. I would wait for sometime for prices to fall. I would recommend this product.

I bought two of these years ago and have had no issues with them. Just upgraded my sons board to a Gigabyte Z790 EAGLE AX. His existing Samsung 2TB SSD would not be recognized by the board or Windows 11. I tried my backup SSD also a Samsung, nothing. So, I bought him one of these and had no issues.

I bought this Silicon Power solid state hard drive to use in an old HP TouchSmart 600 all-in-one that I bought back in 2011. The short story is that I was able to get it work. However, it was not a straightforward as will other brands. As I mentioned, I bought this computer in 2011. It had Windows 7 on it. In 2021, the hard drive was about to die, so I replaced it with a modern solid state hard drive (Samsung brand). Because the newer drives are smaller than the one that came with the computer, I used a 2.5" to 3.5" caddy to hold it. I installed Windows 10. I just followed the install wizard and everything went smoothly. Last week, the power went out and my computer wouldn't boot up. Everything (including the hard drive) passed the checks, but it was super, super slow. I tried to run restores from USB and DVD. They would kind of run, but so so slow, I was unable to troubleshoot. I also tried to install Windows again, but it failed each time. I decided to buy the same Samsung HDD thinking it would be cheaper now (3 years later) but it was actually $10 more. There was a suggestion for the Silicon Power brand (same size and everything) and it was half the price. I have 5 or 6 USB sticks from Silicon Power and I like them, so I bought this one instead. It was just as easy to install into the computer, but the Windows installation did not work. The wizard would not allow me to choose any partition. They were all GPT (and needed to be MBR). I googled and read about some fixes and then watched a couple videos. Basically I had to pull up the command prompt (shift F10) then enter disk partition mode (diskpart), list, then select the disk, clean it, and then convert to mbr. Once this was done, then I refreshed the wizard and it allowed me to choose a partition. And then Windows 10 installed without an issue. I did not have to do any of this when installing Windows 10 on the Samsung hard drive (same computer) three years ago. The issue for this Silicon Power hard drive is that it came as GPT (not MBR) and it was already partitioned (4 partitions). I don't know if this is how all of them come. Maybe this was a used hard drive, returned, and then resold (without reformatting it). I am not sure. But it seems odd that it would come with 4 partitions. The drive is working fine. I am typing this on that computer right now. So I would give the hard drive 5 stars, if not for the way it came (which required extra time to research and stuff). I believe that could be an issue for many people. note: I wrote this review a long time ago, but it appear I never clicked the submit button, so submitting it now.

First of all, I have owned and operated a computer business for over 20 years, so I have seen the good and the bad, and, probably just like the rest of you, I read the reviews of items before I buy them. For me as a business owner, I have to be careful what we buy for and sell to our customers, and this drive was just such item we ordered for a customer that needed a new hard drive as theirs had crashed. I ordered it one day and it arrived the following day. Packaging was nothing special and was what was to be expected. Going from a traditional, mechanical drive to an SSD was already a given that it was going to be an improvement, but what we did not expect was just how much of an improvement it would have been for this system. Keep in mind, the system itself was nothing special, decent processor and 8GB of memory. We installed this drive fairly quickly, used a flash drive to install Windows 10 on the system and the installation was rather quick, which caused us a little hesitation at first thinking that something went wrong since most times installation takes considerably longer, but this was done in roughly 10 minutes, if not less? We let things run as they should and the installation was perfect, however, what truly impressed us was the boot time of the system from cold start to full on Windows ready, which was roughly 10 seconds! We thought that might be a fluke, so we shut it down and restarted it from cold start, and the results were the same. Now, as a comparison, we used a similar sized traditional hard drive and performed the same installation on the same computer so that there was no room for error or saying that system A has this processor and system B had this much more memory. Installation took roughly 24 minutes on the traditional drive and boot time was about a minute and a half before you could do anything without the little circle basically telling you to wait. Let me say this, I could care less what the reviews others may provide here are, perhaps they got a bad drive, which happens, or something else happened, I do not know, but, when we see install times cut down to less than half the time and a 10 second boot time, that is impressive, period. Will this drive be perfect for EVERY installation and provide the same results EVERY time? Of course not, conditions vary, experience and skill level of the installer will vary from person to person, and if there is one thing that we have come to realize over the years in this business is that people are far more willing to blame a device than their own user error because that is far easier to explain. If we are at fault and did something that would cause an issue, we own up to it, and yes, we know that devices can fail during installation or you get a bad batch or device, it happens. But, for some people, before blaming the device for a failure, consider looking at the conditions before blaming the device, as there might be a good chance that the failure was due to user error before device error. Would we recommend this drive to others? Absolutely. Will we continue to use and install these drives in other systems? Absolutely. Are these the "magic sauce" that is going to put your system over the top and make everything perfect? No, but these drives will do the job and make you happy you bought them!

Excellent

I tried one of these about a month ago to back up multi-cam video projects via a usb3 docking bay and got so-so performance of around 85 mM/sec. But just got another one and connected it directly to the mobo this time and what a difference. Copying to about 2/3 of the 512mb capacity had peak times over 400mB/sec till about half way through then got lots of wild fluctuations so I timed an average from start to finish and it clocked at about 230 mB/sec. A little slower but substantially cheaper than equivalent usb3 capacity Samsung T3 and T5 units I usually use which average around 275 mB/sec doing the same thing. Just ordered a Kingwin trayless hot-swap mobile SATA rack, which is kind of like a docking bay that mounts in a drive slot that connects with Sata3. I've been doing my video work right on this guy internally mounted for now and don't notice any perceptible performance difference compared to editing on the internal SSD work drive I usually use. Seems to be a better way to work. When I get the Kingwin bay, the plan is to just pull drives out and file them away when I'm done with a project and pick up a new one for the next... without a copy operation or cracking open the box each time. UPDATE: latest version I received of this looks more rugged with a metal shell but doesn't seem to auto-detect as a spare drive on boot-up on my Win10 ASUS mobo. Not a show stopper for me because I bring it to the front panel and it detects when I hot plug it after boot up. Would be a problem if mounted internally. Firmware flash tool doesn't detect it at all even though their drive health tool does. Older versions (plastic shell) and Pioneer SSD work just fine.

All is ok

Excelente ssd, aún despues de 7 años lo tengo y funciona de maravilla.

Have had this for a few years now working very hard & is still working well would buy this again

it's a mess - it keeps disconnecting whenever I am editing a video on my computer. I have another ssd drive and no problem at all. it's written 3 years warranty: hope it's true..trying to contact seller now

Silicon Power is a good SSD no matter what some of the other comments here say. Its not the same say as Samsung but its close enough in terms of quality and speed, the two most important factors when deciding on a SSD. Hey if you really wanted a Samsung then you should go out, pay the fancy price and buy it. Yes I agree that Samsung reliability would be 100% but this ain't too bad either. I already own a Samsung SSD drive and wanted something budget friendly this time. Their Velox series is more for people who are exploring SSD's for the first time. This model Ace A55 is budget friendly mid range SSD which is good for laptops. The best part is that it is smaller in thickness and hence really low on weight. But it may lead to heating in the future as the thicker ones usually have better chip design and cooling built into them. I will know this summer. If installing in a laptop it will make a difference even if you already have other SSD's installed like the M.2 PCIe Gen 3 and have replaced your laptop DVD writer also with an Samsung SSD drive like me. Coming to the speed, a user here has already written an important and very helpful comment, you need to align the SSD partitions and sectors correctly if you want it to perform especially when cloning your old HDD and Windows partitions to it. I suggest the same thing and recommend using Mini Tool Partition to align the partitions to 1MB by default. I didn't need to do all this as its not the primary SSD in my laptop and not going to be the last one either but yes for my primary SSD I did need to. Where this SSD really boosts up speed is on a Macbook. Trust me when I say this but booting up MacOS using a SSD is going to feel supersonic as compared to booting up a HP Pavillion Windows 10. But yes die hard Windows fans a SSD is going to improve your loading and waiting times immensely. Its damn irritating waiting for all the tray icons to load even if you have 16 GB of RAM. For the geeks out there plenty of tests are available to check out the speed of this SSD and I think Silicon Power does not do too poorly in most of them for a mid range SSD. You can also download their ToolBox to test your drives health from time to time. They even provide a licensed cloning software if you dont have Acronis or Mini Tool. As with all my reviews I must post a little caveat, most low to medium priced SSD's including this one require some amount of system RAM to function correctly. So if you buy a SSD like this one 512 GB then be prepared to sacrifice at least 1 GB of RAM to the SSD for its caching tasks etc. That can make a difference on an old 4 GB RAM system especially if you share RAM with the inbuilt Graphics card as well. Therefore first upgrade the RAM on your old PC or laptop and then buy a SSD especially if you intend to use it for high processing power work later and really breathe life into your old system. On older systems a SSD does make a difference but where it really shines would be on a system with adequate processing power and RAM. Also please note 512 GB does not mean it will effectively show up as 512 GB for use on a Windows laptop. Its the way to do with the way the file system reports the effective space on Microsoft based systems when formatted for Windows use. On a Mac it will show up correctly as 512 GB as they have changed their operating system to report the space/size correctly. But its there on both systems as the effective size provided by the manufacturer SP has not gone anywhere. All in all go for this SSD if you want to bump your old Desktop or laptop by a notch when working or gaming by spending a little. If you want to know specifics suggest you visit the manufacturers website and look for Ace A55 which is the model number for this SSD. Its the starting model in their Ace series. For those looking to buy something more pocket friendly I suggest getting this. I am not going to explain 3D NAND etc as it does not matter to most users here but lets just say this does the job in the price you paid.