Silicon Power A55 2.5" SATA III 3D NAND SSD

Cant fault it,im not a super gamer or heavy pc user, But I bought this ssd for an older laptop (2years now) that was a retired photo/video editing machine to be a dedicated media hdmi to tv laptop.This thing bought it back to life and to be honest Ive used it every single day for the last year since i bought this drive (along with a external hard drive cloner) and it hasnt let us down at all.Ive run photoshop on it, Gta iv, euro truck sim, media programs and the laptop is quicker now then when i bought it.To be honest I bought two more and put them into friends laptops and they seem to be a pretty solid drive. Backed by a 36month warranty as well.Id honestly not done all the super in depth research I would usually do and just bit the bullet and bought this ... MoreCant fault it,im not a super gamer or heavy pc user, But I bought this ssd for an older laptop (2years now) that was a retired photo/video editing machine to be a dedicated media hdmi to tv laptop.This thing bought it back to life and to be honest Ive used it every single day for the last year since i bought this drive (along with a external hard drive cloner) and it hasnt let us down at all.Ive run photoshop on it, Gta iv, euro truck sim, media programs and the laptop is quicker now then when i bought it.To be honest I bought two more and put them into friends laptops and they seem to be a pretty solid drive. Backed by a 36month warranty as well.Id honestly not done all the super in depth research I would usually do and just bit the bullet and bought this drive, and Im happy I did. All i can say is that I coudlnt personally justify spending big for the other brand names,Maybe if I was still using the laptop commercially Id buy a big name brand for extra peace of mind, but from memory plenty of samsung and other ssd's had problems too and if you have a backup system in place it shouldnt matter anyway.But its been 12months without a hickup and as I said I cant fault it.For the price its well worth trying!

Good Price, but not totally satisfied

Even thought the drive is a good price, I had a hard time loading El Capitan OS on my Mac. I've had no problem using other makes in the past (ex. OWC/Samsung/Crucial). Using an iMac 2011, I would try to update the OS, but it would fail and load a white screen. I was able to load High Sierra with no issues, but still feel a little uneasy with this brand. The reason for the old OS is because of the old software I still use. DVD Studio Pro is one of them. Is it possible to try another one to see if it is just a faulty drive? Thanks!

Great Price and fast SSD, 2nd review 08/25/20

This SSD is at a great price. It is easy to install and super fast. BIOS immediately recognized the SSD and all is good. Could not be simpler.. I highly recommend this SSD if your are upgrading and older Laptop. I upgrade and old Dell E5530 Intel i3 Laptop with 4GB RAM, old mechanical 5400RPM hard drive with 8Gb RAM and new 500Gb SSD with Win10. All I can tell you this runs like a brand new Laptop now. Super fast and I could not be happier!! Thanks NEWEGG for your fast shipping!! Again bought this SSD in 08/2020 and installed in an old Dell i5 CPU 16Gb RAM PC and the PC came alive. This revived an old PC , it was easy and with a new WIN10 install it like a new PC again. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

Great SSD. Used as External drive on Xbox Series X

I needed a new external drive for my Xbox Series X because my 500GB Samsung drive was full. I had an external enclosure that cost less than $10 and then caught this drive on sale. Including the cost of the enclosure, it cost a little less than the 500GB drive, with twice the storage.I knew it should work as an external drive on Xbox, but I saw no reviews about using it as one, so I thought I would give it a shot and share my experience.This SSD Drive works great as an External SSD for my Xbox Series X so I can play my older games that are not optimized for Xbox Series X/S. I put the drive in the enclosure, plugged the drive into the USB port on my Xbox where it quickly recognized it and began the setup process. I transferred my games to it and the Silicone Power ... MoreI needed a new external drive for my Xbox Series X because my 500GB Samsung drive was full. I had an external enclosure that cost less than $10 and then caught this drive on sale. Including the cost of the enclosure, it cost a little less than the 500GB drive, with twice the storage.I knew it should work as an external drive on Xbox, but I saw no reviews about using it as one, so I thought I would give it a shot and share my experience.This SSD Drive works great as an External SSD for my Xbox Series X so I can play my older games that are not optimized for Xbox Series X/S. I put the drive in the enclosure, plugged the drive into the USB port on my Xbox where it quickly recognized it and began the setup process. I transferred my games to it and the Silicone Power 1TB drive has worked great since I installed it a few days ago.The drive is lightweight and is thin. The enclosure I used had my old PS4 HDD in it and is just as thin, if not thinner that the PS4 HDD. So, this drive is thin enough to fit in a PS4 and I believe it should work fine.I also see no performance difference between this drive and my external Samsung SSD, but I have not done any tests to compare read/write times.

Inexpensive. A good performer. Not gonna break any speed records, but that's okay.

If you set your expectations right, this is a good drive. But if you buy this, and go-gaga with benchmarks and tests, you will be disappointed. But under normal day-to-day use where you don't really look all day at your read/write speeds and throughput, it is still very quick. Especially when coming from a Hard Drive. It's inexpensive, yet it comes with a migration software license. Yes I know you can find them free on the internet. But you don't often come across a manufacturer that provides a proper migration software for a budget product. This is running two systems in my home now. An old VAIO laptop which I resurrected benefitted greatly from this. And a budget entry level desktop. No problems whatsoever.

It works better than expected

MY PC is using Windows 10 Pro. I use it for a variety of chores including video and music editing. I created my own security suite with a virus scanner and firewall from different manufacturers. The system has always run solidly but too up to 15 minutes to settle down after a cold start or restart. Some applications were sluggish starting. Using the Silicon Power 1TB SSD, the system is completely up in just over two minutes. This may sound slow to some, but considering what I'm running at startup, it is orders of magnitude better than when my boot device was a 7200 RPM hard disk. I did make some changes to my system configuration. I split off most of the data to a second hard disk. The SSD has the operating system, all the application software, and some data. ... MoreMY PC is using Windows 10 Pro. I use it for a variety of chores including video and music editing. I created my own security suite with a virus scanner and firewall from different manufacturers. The system has always run solidly but too up to 15 minutes to settle down after a cold start or restart. Some applications were sluggish starting. Using the Silicon Power 1TB SSD, the system is completely up in just over two minutes. This may sound slow to some, but considering what I'm running at startup, it is orders of magnitude better than when my boot device was a 7200 RPM hard disk. I did make some changes to my system configuration. I split off most of the data to a second hard disk. The SSD has the operating system, all the application software, and some data. Performance is outstanding. I didn't know anything about Silicone Power and its products. After reading up on the company and sifting through reviews, I decided to give it a shot. I'm very happy I did. My experience has been 100% positive, except for the long time cloning my hard drive. But, since that was a one-time thing I won't take away any eggs. The ACE A-55 is a top notch drive that lives up to its specifications. I would recommend it highly.

Not Recommended

In the last several years, SSD manufacturers engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of quality. SLC NAND and MLC NAND were replaced by TLC, QLC, and now PLC, less and less reliable. I've got two SSDs die within 3 weeks of each other, in two different PCs, both with TLC NAND, one of them being the well reviewed Crucial MX500, less than 2 years old. Folks, if you value your data, don't bother to buy consumer level SSDs. If you must have SSD please buy an expensive enterprise unit, otherwise buy an electro-mechanical HDD, they are much more reliable, some of them are fast enough for almost any application, and before they die they give sufficient signs that will allow you to save most of the data. I have hard drives from 1996 that still work without issues. Don't let ... MoreIn the last several years, SSD manufacturers engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of quality. SLC NAND and MLC NAND were replaced by TLC, QLC, and now PLC, less and less reliable. I've got two SSDs die within 3 weeks of each other, in two different PCs, both with TLC NAND, one of them being the well reviewed Crucial MX500, less than 2 years old. Folks, if you value your data, don't bother to buy consumer level SSDs. If you must have SSD please buy an expensive enterprise unit, otherwise buy an electro-mechanical HDD, they are much more reliable, some of them are fast enough for almost any application, and before they die they give sufficient signs that will allow you to save most of the data. I have hard drives from 1996 that still work without issues. Don't let the SSD manufacturers take you hard earned money in exchange for trash.

Quite surprised by the performance

One of the cheapest DRAM cache SSD drives you can get. And though SP Silicon isn't a household name, they definitely seem to have a pretty big presence in the Taiwanese supply chain. I've had good luck with their microSD cards for Raspberry Pi, so I figured why not. Build quality is typical of cheap SSDs, plastic housing with threaded brass inserts. Feels super light, so I'm guessing it's probably just a half size board inside. Did a crystaldiskmark on my i5-3550 8GB DDR3 Biostar TZ77XE4 motherboard, and the results were quite impressive. Sequential read and writes are what was expected on a SATA 3 6 GB/s connection. Write IOPS of 82,000 were not expected. I'm sure it will slow down on larger transfers when the buffer runs out, but for normal use on older systems, ... MoreOne of the cheapest DRAM cache SSD drives you can get. And though SP Silicon isn't a household name, they definitely seem to have a pretty big presence in the Taiwanese supply chain. I've had good luck with their microSD cards for Raspberry Pi, so I figured why not. Build quality is typical of cheap SSDs, plastic housing with threaded brass inserts. Feels super light, so I'm guessing it's probably just a half size board inside. Did a crystaldiskmark on my i5-3550 8GB DDR3 Biostar TZ77XE4 motherboard, and the results were quite impressive. Sequential read and writes are what was expected on a SATA 3 6 GB/s connection. Write IOPS of 82,000 were not expected. I'm sure it will slow down on larger transfers when the buffer runs out, but for normal use on older systems, this is a great drive.

Very poor performance

Worst performance ever under linux (Ubuntu 18.04). It can't sustain a high speed file transfer. Write speed bursts around 400MB/s then drops to 100MB/s and barely goes any higher. Furthermore, it often causes the SATA port to drop from 6.0 Gbps to 1.5 Gbps. With or without the SATA issue, it still can't sustain a write speed with big files. I have a WD Blue 1TB in the same machine, and it maxes out the transfer without any problems. I updated my BIOS and my OS, to no avail. Also, their firmware utility is useless, it doesn't detect the SSD in windows and doesn't update anything. So it's hard to tell if it's a firmware issue or if the drive is defective. In any case, very disappointing, I'm returning it.