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Installation Ease
Customers have had an overwhelmingly positive experience with the ease of installation for this SSD, with many reporting no issues during the process. Some even went as far as restoring backups and bringing their laptops back to life after hard drive failures. However, one customer did mention wasting time due to a previous incorrect purchase.
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Compatibility
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the compatibility of this Silicon Power SSD, with most reporting successful installation and fast performance, while some encountered issues with recognition and reliability.
Performance
Customers have mixed opinions regarding the performance of the Silicon Power 256GB A55 M.2 SSD. While some report excellent value for money and fast speeds, others have experienced issues with the drive failing or slowing down after a period of use.

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Quality
It was easy to install and has been very stable.
The swap was easy and painless, restored a backup from windows 10 and everything is working great.
Loaded operating system and has been i'm use every day for a few months now with no issues.
It works good and fast for sata.
Price
The price and size was better than i expected.
The price was actually cheaper than a lot of the usb memory sticks i looked at.
Shipping
I ordered an enclosure so i can install raspberry pi os on it but amazon hasn't shipped that yet so i can't report on performan... Read More
Packaging/appearance
The one i received was poorly packed and was used.
Competitiveness
It's even better than many other brands and works perfectly.
I've purchased a few silicon power branded items over the years, and they tend to be economically priced but not the fastest performers.
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
easy, good, great, same and few. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that there may be counterfeit products sold through this listing.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 785.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 76.9% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 2,582 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 30 2024.
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Required sata as pcie doesnt work
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It recognized it on reboot and showed up in bios and not generic either
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I ordered an enclosure so i can install raspberry pi os on it but amazon hasnt shipped that yet so i cant report on performance or longevity as its been only a few days
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Update i have left it in my optiplex 9020m micro and changed boot time from four and a half minutes to just about 15 seconds
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I went different way with my raspberry pi
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I get between 450500mbps transfers
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Idle temp is 38c according to smartmontools
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Loaded operating system and has been im use every day for a few months now with no issues
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