SP 1TB SSD 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost SATA III 2.5 7mm (0.28) Internal Solid State Drive (SP001TBSS3A55S25)

So I just purchased two more of these drives which are used in laptops around the house. The one that I purchased 4 years ago died at exactly 3.5 years. If you use these for anything more than light storage, the drives themselves will just stop responding to anything after the warranty expires. No complaints on the actual drive during use, and they seem very stable until they crash hard.

One was to upgrade an older MacBook Pro, paired with a memory upgrade. Simple clone and standard install went without problems. Great performance boost for an older machine. The second was for a Windows 10 hand-me-down kids game machine that had a very slow bulk storage drive as the system disk. This was a bit trickier install. I had to do some fiddling to shrink the original drive, and used Macrium Reflect to clone the EFI, System Restore, and main partitions, then remapped the old drive for video and photo storage, along with some large game files. While it took longer than expected (not helped by Windows upgrading - twice - in the middle of the process) and had a few speed bumps along the way I finally prevailed. The system boots much (4-5X) faster, and the UI is pretty snappy (for Win10 on an older, but premium in its day, computer).

Bought this to clone a laptops HDD (5400rmp). Cloning went of without a hitch and I easily rebooted the laptop with the clone. The laptop is very fast now and the user couldnt be happier.

So far it works well

Use this Silicon Power SSD as a NAS back up drive even though I know it it not designed for NAS storage. But with the price this low I prefer the Silicon Power SSD over a mechanical drive. Anyway, the Silicon Power SSD and the NAS has been on 24 7 non stop for three months straight and the SSD has been working fine and there is 99% life remaining as it is shown on the drive analysis after three months of non stop usage. Overall good SSD, recommended.

Silicon Power is LITERALLY the ONLY brand I buy. Why? When I used to work at my last Computer Repair Shop, I would see LOTS of Hard Drives coming in for upgrade/cloning over to SSD. What I also saw was that there were a lot of these off-brand SSDs that customers would buy from who knows where, and sure enough, they typically failed at about an 80% fail rate of at least the first attempt of cloning/migrating over the OS from the HD to the SSD. What brand, didnt fail? The only brand I ever had not to fail on the first migration/cloning attempt was Silicon Power (SP). The cool thing about SP is that they have great deals usually, so the price is never a concern when Im shopping for another SSD. Also, they hook you with FREE software to take care of your cloning/data transfer needs. Just register the SSD drive on their website located on the back of the packaging. Enter the code they ask you for and boom! You get the download link. I would Highly Recommend Silicon Power. Hope this helps someone make up their mind that may be shopping for a new SSD drive, whether you are upgrading or just adding to your setup....Go With Silicon Power!

So I bought this to replace an spinning disk drive in my gaming laptop. (Im still not sure why companies even bother putting spinning disks in gaming laptops anymore its such a performance limiter and provides unnecessary heat) I bought the 2 TB model and so far its been great. The performance is just not even remotely close its so much better for my larger games like Ark, Conan, Red Dead. Now there is a downside. Once you get through the Cache on the device the write does slow down a ways. Its not terrible but as others have noticed it happens. Still better than a spinning disk though so that is a bonus. Still overall very happy with the price verse size of the drive I can finally bring my gaming laptop wherever I go and not have to much of a performance hit compared to my desktop.

I chose this SSD for a home security camera recordings, to keep the computer as quiet as possible and lower the power consumption on a 24-hour device. At this price point and with a 1000 TBW, there is no reason to worry about wearing it out with recording overwrites, by the time it dies I will either need a new PC, or another storage technology will be available. It is very fast for the intended use, scrolling through video recordings is instantaneous and smooth. Highly recommend.

Not a fan of Chinese brands but this brand proves it’s worth/value

Have had this drive Since December 9th of 2022 (It is now April 2nd 2023) and so far it is still going ok. The storage is as advertised at the full 2TB, Which for the price was what sold me. Even with the neutral to negative reviews that I had seen. However, The average response time is worse that the 2TB Seagate HDD. Im seeing an average response time of over 500ms on average with occasional spikes to 900ms. The HDD averages around 3.2 to 12ms. The only reason that I have not really noticed the delay is im not running the highest graphics in games that require the fast response. Just simply needed more storage. Not a terrible SSD, but not responsive enough for fast random read/writes. Good for bulk storage. (Longevity is still in question).