Silicon Power SSD 512GB 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost 2.5 inch SATA III 7mm (0.28") Internal Solid State Drive

I recently upgraded my computer's storage with the Silicon Power 256GB SSD, and I must say that I'm very impressed with its performance. This SSD is a great choice for anyone who wants to speed up their computer and improve overall efficiency. One of the standout features of this SSD is its impressive read and write speeds. I found that it was able to load applications and files much more quickly than my previous hard drive, making multitasking and other tasks much smoother and faster. Another great feature of the Silicon Power 256GB SSD is its 3D NAND flash technology. This allows for higher density storage and better performance than traditional 2D NAND, which is reflected in the SSD's overall speed and responsiveness. I also appreciated how easy it was to install this SSD. It came with clear instructions and software that made it simple to transfer my files and data from my old hard drive to the new SSD. The SSD is also very lightweight and durable, making it an ideal choice for use in laptops and other portable devices. Overall, I would highly recommend the Silicon Power 256GB SSD to anyone in need of a reliable and high-performance storage solution. It's easy to install, provides excellent read and write speeds, and is a great value for its price point. If you're looking to upgrade your computer's storage, this SSD is definitely worth considering.

Good budget SSD that gets the job done with decent sata speeds as expected. Was easy to install as someone who knows how to already but came with instructions for those less experienced which is always nice.

So if (a couple of years ago) you had told me that a half terabyte SSD would be less than the (then) price of the same size hhd i wouldn't have believed you. Zoom forward to today and often, the even faster m.2 nvme drives are cheaper still on a per gb basis. However for builds such as the updating and speeding up of both my HP enterprize z600/z800 builds which wont easily boot from nvme, and (for the same reasons) my updated Mac Pro a1186 builds for music studios, these are the perfect addition. Faster than any given hdd, and with using it in older sata 2 systems, it will run as fast as the system underneath can chew through data. What i will mention is that, although i was initially nervous as to using a dram cacheless drive after previous issues with older equivalents from other brands, i can confidently report that the tiered nand flash approach that this drive uses is perfectly suited for the application and plenty fast. It uses a smaller and lighting fast single layer nand flash cache, (exactly as a dram cache would be utilised, but in many cases significantly faster than the old and slow ddr3 used) it then moves the data archived onto the still fast but less-so qlc nand which is the size of the drives headline capacity to store. Again at the £44 i paid this is a no brainer. Good quality, great price and no issues and all testing using crystal tools reports at least advertised speed on a fast top end HEDT platform and in some cases its actually run faster than advertised.

Decent cheap ssd no noise pug and play super easy to use made of a weak plastic

Works perfectly. Used to swap out an older HDD that was causing my Laptop to run as slow as a week in the jail! Now everything works well, and given my Lenovo yoga a new lease of life!

I have an old Acer Laptop - 2010 which became too slow to run windows and be of any use, it used to take several minutes to boot up and then took an age to load any application or browser. I installed Linux Mint instead of Windows and then swapped out the old hard drive for this great SSD. What an amazing difference! It boots up in under 30 seconds and applications load as quickly as my new MAC. Browser pages are snappy and responsive - there's life in the old dog yet. For £20 it's a worthwhile investment if you have a use for an old machine.

At first this SSD works passably; the data transfer speed wasn't quite what was advertised but after adding it to an aging laptop to replace a failing spinning HDD it did improve its startup time. I bought the 512 GB model in May 2024, and it spontaneously suffered a total failure in September. The laptop would not start up, and despite plugging it into multiple other machines and even a dedicated drive recovery unit, nothing could even tell it was an SSD. This listing, the product packaging, and the Silicon Power website all mention a 3 year warranty. Attempting to make use of this warranty is a miserable experience. The website's primary phone number is in Taiwan and the alternative has no international code provided but appears to be based in the USA. The product packaging has two more phone numbers in the Netherlands (which I tried calling and did not pick up) and Japan. There is also a website support form, but responses are very delayed and not very helpful. In summary: The options to return this £26 item are to ship it to the Netherlands (costing about £10) or Taiwan (a little more). Moreover, you need to fill out an "RMA application form" first, and they only accept returns with tracking or express delivery services. Apparently shipping costs can be repaid, but the process of applying for that repayment has not been explained. Perhaps most absurd though, I am informed: "Silicon Power will inspect the product and in its sole discretion repair or replace it with a comparable one based on the warranty policy." This implies they may simply claim the product is damaged and refuse to fulfil the warranty at all, probably also refusing to reimburse shipping costs in the process. Even if they do accept the product is faulty, there is no option to refund, only to receive another product which is just as likely to be faulty. Throughout this experience I am left with the impression that the business model is to sell cheaply-produced products that barely last beyond Amazon's standard warranty, while claiming to offer a longer warranty that has so many barricades that few to no customers will ever manage to make use of it. I strongly advise anyone considering these SSDs to reconsider. Rather than the low cost of an SSD, think about the cost of the data you intend to store on it; that is what you will really pay if and when it fails.

very good product

Goed kwaliteit ssd drive doet zijn werk zoals het hoort.

Top qualité ,plusieurs achats de ce modèle et jamais déçu

All is ok

Pack de 2 SSD 128GB 3D NAND : Excellent achat ! Mon ordinateur respire enfin et charge plus rapidement que jamais. Un boost de performance incroyable à un prix abordable. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

tester avec h2testw parfait bien 2Tb