Silicon Power 128GB SSD 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost SATA III 2.5" 7mm (0.28") Internal Solid State Drive (SU128GBSS3A55S25AH)

The Silicon Power 128GB SSD is a budget-friendly SATA drive that offers significant speed upgrade for my old PC, it's easy to install, works very well, no compatibility issues. It's a great option for running your operating system. Bonus it provides better performance than a traditional HDD and great value for the price.

For what you pay for, it's an excellent product, but after further investigation and getting my head on straight. I realized that my Samsung 860 Pro, actually blew this drive Silicon Power (128MB & 1TB) and a Crucial MX500 that I also purchased out of the water. While doing some initial side by side comparisons, Both the Silicon Power, Crucial MX500 & Samsung 860 Pro drives were relatively equal and I was surprised and happy with my new purchase(s). BTW, I still am happy, because in real world situations and for what I do, I don't personally notice the difference, BUT, for those that do... While initially testing, the Samsung only held a slightly better performance to both the Silicon Power and the Crutial MX500 drives, but then I realized that my main drive, the (Silicon Power) was on a faster Sata III connector, which initially I thought were all the same speed and when testing the Crucial MX500, it was also a clone of the (Silicon Power) main drive on the same faster Sata III Connector. So briefly, the Samsung 860 Pro was virtually equal to both the (Silicon Power) and the (Crucial MX500), while only on a Sata II connection and both the Crucial MX500 & Silicon Power were on the Sata III when doing my initial comparison. After realizing my mishap, I loaded the operating system onto the Samsung 860 Pro, which was the only way to fairly compare all three drives and this baby (The Samsung 860 Pro) cleaned house with read and write speeds that were stable and in the 425 - 450+ mb's range. So, without the photos handy, which I may provide at a later date. It's crucial to compare apples to apples and when buying a new drive, that is destined to be your main drive. It's highly probable that the newly acquired drive is on the faster of the available Sata ports and comparing to your old drive, may not be a fair comparison, which I'm sure these manufacturers know all too well. Some EQUAL speed Sata ports would be nice from the motherboard manufacturers, which are still installing USB 2.0 ports on motherboards in 2021, which in my humble opinion is Ridiculous! Hopefully, this helps someone in making their decision and I still love my Silicon Power & Crucial MX500 drives, but now I really love my new Samsung 860 PRO...Just joking and to be quite frank, and throw a wrench in the mix here: I can't see the inner workings, for what I do, what it's worth and what I personally noticed, the Crucial MX500 actually seemed to be the fastest of them all, when used as my main drive. It seemed the spunkiest with the least lag, but there are too many variables to weigh for each situation. Mine is some minor graphics, browsing the web with some Excel & Word products as well. If you got this far, Thank you for reading

Nice and fast drives for low budget. Highly recommend for anyone trying to upgrade their systems or need a drive as a boot device when working with servers and virtual machines. This was does the job in a major way. Will be buying more to install in my others servers as boot drives for virtualization. Highly recommend.

You can definitely get better SSDs, with superior performance and a longer warranty, but I've purchased at least 10 of these Silicon Power drives over a period of 2 years, and all are still in service and all are working well. If you don't need to save money you should choose something more mainstream such as a Samsung EVO or even a Western Digital Blue, but if cost matters a lot, I feel this is the one to get. I'd add that, if you're upgrading from a spinning mechanical hard drive, literally *ANY* SSD is going to offer such an incredible improvement that the differences among SSDs becomes fairly negligible, especially if they're SATA SSDs like this one.

Excellent device that works as advertised.

I've bought a bunch of Silicon Power SSDs and SD cards over the years. All of them previously were fine, so I got two of these as mirrored boot drives for a home storage server. They worked flawlessly for over a year, and then one day after a reboot one of them went read-only. Unfortunate, yes, but that is why you have a mirrored array instead of just one drive for a server. These things happen. I filed an RMA request and included the relevant information. SP had me ship the drive to them and just a few days after it arrived, they approved a replacement which I received today new in box. I really appreciate their supporting their product, and wanted to use this review to encourage them to keep it up. Since, again, I got these to be boot-only drives for a server I don't really have any thoughts on their performance - but they are nice slim 7mm drives which were as easy to install as a SATA drive can be. Excellent utility drive for something like a home server, HTPC, emulation box, or the like.

It does exactly what it was meant to for my DIY NAS build, to hold my NAS OS. So I didn’t really need anything bigger or better. I just might buy another one for a redundancy.

I've installed several of these now and have had great luck. Works great to revive older systems, but need the ability to initialize (generally with an external SATA to USB bridge). Of the several, I've only encountered one bad unit, which was quickly replaced. Very happy overall.

worked like a wonder the moment i connected it and freshly installed Windows 10 and realised how an SSD makes a difference in loading OS and opening applications. i will recommend everyone who upgrade memory cards instead of their Hard disks to reconsider. Please remember that your SSD can load stuff way faster even with 2GB of ram even if its an average level machine. Just make sure not to reinstall OS over and over again on your new SSD and you are good to go. Now coming back to the topic, since i am using Silicon power for the first time, i am hooked and have had no issues for past 3 months. Got it registered online on the specified website on the package after it was delivered to me. You just need to know service centres around you just in case. Recommended so far!!!

Speed itself is Good but It got corrupted easily maybe because I dual booted windows. I think you should try Silicon Power SSD. My laptop booting time is now 10x better than my previous HDD

It's a great and lightweight internal SSD with decent performace. Was super easy to install and get my operating system on it. However, it doesn't come with any screws to fix it inside the PC case. Other than that, an amazing buy.

Speeds are good .

Excellent Performance