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Silicon power 128gb is much slower than a traditional hard drive. Could not boot at all in safe mode, recovery mode or using a recovery disk. Would be fine for an extra game drive but just step it up to 1tb+ at that point.

These things are junk. Will be buying only trusted brands going forward.

Got * off and smashed it with a hammer.

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Quality


The 3d nand technology and slc cache ensure smooth and efficient data processing.


It’s reliable, fast, and gives a noticeable boost in performance!


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, probab...  Read More


Installation took roughly 24 minutes on the traditional drive and boot time was about a minute and a half before you could do a...  Read More

Price


For the price, the performance is top-notch, making this ssd an excellent value.


So, i ordered the silicon power a55 256gb ssd from amazon for under $20.


For under $20, it was the best bang for the buck for a 256gb ssd.

Shipping


I ordered it one day and it arrived the following day.

Packaging/appearance


Packaging was nothing special and was what was to be expected.

Competitiveness


I've used lots of other ssd's from western digital, samsung, intel, mushkin, kingdian, ocz and others, and this drive seems as ...  Read More


Now, as a comparison, we used a similar sized traditional hard drive and performed the same installation on the same computer s...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    old, fast, good and same.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 8440.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 11,069 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 2 2025.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A friend gave me his old laptop with no hard drive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So i ordered the silicon power a55 256gb ssd from amazon for under 20


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Note this drive doesnt come with a partition table so i had to create a gpt partiton table during the installation process


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Made my computer at least 10x faster


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Unfortunately my drive failed after 6 months but sp replaced it without issue


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Checked sp website for firmware updates but didnt find much there that was helpful


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    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

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