Silicon Power SSD 1TB 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost 2.5 inch SATA III 7mm (0.28") Internal Solid State Drive

Replaced a traditional hard drive in a HP laptop and it has transformed it, it is now a fast laptop running windows 11 far better than it ran windows 10. No more waiting for boot up, really pleased.

This 500GB SSD offers excellent performance for the price. Boot time is significantly faster, applications load quickly, and overall system responsiveness has improved noticeably.Installation is simple, even for those with minimal tech experience. It's a perfect upgrade for anyone looking to boost their system speed without breaking the bank.Reliable, affordable, and does exactly what it's supposed to — highly recommended.

We have a couple of these drives now for use as secondary storage for game installs on gaming laptops. The first one was bought a couple of years ago, the second recently, and overall they offer very good value for money as secondary storage.They're a QLC NAND based DRAM-less SSD. That means write speeds are dependent on whether or not you fill the SLC cache in a copy operation, which in turn depends on the remaining capacity as it treats some of the unused QLC as SLC.Using Macrium Reflect to copy the partition from the old HDD was a bit slow, around 50Mb/s for the 123Gb of data. However, copying 2 large datasets of 50Gb and then immediately another 80Gb ran at 200-400Mb/s for the most part for the large files in each, with occasional drops below 100Mb/s. This is more than acceptably quick given the low price.I wouldn't use cheaper QLC as a main boot drive, but as secondary storage for large game installs there's nothing wrong with it. Once installed most games have lots of reads and relatively few and small writes.My only gripe is the screw fittings. I had to use a Dremel to shorten the old HDD mounting screws by 1-2mm to get the tray to slide into the laptop mounting bay. For some reason when using the side mounting holes the screws catch and jam on the underside mounting threads, which as the photo shows wasn't the case with the older HDD. I only had this issue with 1 laptop and drive, it was annoying but doable.

I used this SSD to upgrade an 11 year old laptop which was almost too slow to use sensibly. I had a few problems getting it to work but these do not reflect on the product itself. Physical installation was dead easy, but there were some software issues. It seems that if you are replacing an old-style HDD with a SSD, then the SSD needs to have much more capacity(or at least the same) as the unit it is replacing. My HDD was 256Gb and so is the SSD, so I had to reduce partition size on the HDD before backing it up to later restore to the SSD. I still had some problems, and ended up doing a complete re-install of Win10 from the web, then pulling back my personal files from backup. Anyway, I've now got a very old laptop, which although only having 4|Gb of memory, runs like a dream. It only takes a couple of minutes to boot up, and programs now launch 5-10 times faster than they did before. This type of upgrade is well worth considering if you have similar problems, and is a very affordable option.

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.

Used for around 2 years before I upgraded, does the job, good budget ssd

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.