I got the 256GB SATA drive, and it's by far the best value SSD out there that I could find. Performance-wise it might not be the fastest, but for my needs (and on my old motherboard which only gets SATA I speeds anyway) it is perfect. Excellent customer service from the company, too. I thought I had a problem with the first one I received (in hindsight it was probably working just fine) and the company sent a new one super fast, no hassle at all. With my Windows 10 now on the SSD, it feels like a new machine.
Installation tips: I am not a hardware or computer expert and do not profess to be, and I did the installation myself on a desktop and learned a lot in the process (mostly through Google and message boards). This isn't a detailed installation guide, just a few tips I learned. So here's how you can learn from my mistakes and avoid some frustration:
1. If your computer doesn't see your drive, and you can't see the drive in disk management or in BIOS, go into BIOS and make sure your SATA ports are not disabled. I had this issue and took me forever to realize this was the problem. In hindsight it should have been obvious, but I was learning my way through all this so I didn't think of it.
2. You will also likely need to go into BIOS and make sure your SATA operation is set to AHCI. BUT (and this is important) if your settings are not on AHCI and you switch to them in BIOS, you will get a blue screen on startup and crash. You will need to use the command prompt (as admin) first to ensure a startup in safe mode by typing "bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal", THEN restart and go into BIOS, switch over to AHCI, restart in safe mode, and go back into command prompt as admin, type "bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot", restart again, and you will be all set. After doing that, I was finally able to see both drives in the boot order.
3. If you want to move your Windows OS from an existing drive to your SSD, you can try to clone it and maybe you'll have no problem, but after trying multiple clones with different programs and having them fail every time, I finally just did a fresh install of windows from a USB (or other media device) and was glad I did. Don't waste your time with cloning and just do the fresh install. It could save you countless hours of frustration.
I don't know if that will help anyone or not, but I hope it will. And if that all sounds WAY too complicated to you, find a friend who is well versed in computer hardware, buy them a case of their favorite beer, and plead with them to do the installation for you.
Make sure you change from ide to achi mode in your BIOS. Before I changed it I was getting ready/writes in the 300's.
Get this for your crappy laptop, you won't be sorry.
If you don't have a top notch laptop and want to give it a nice boost, buying a super expensive SSD isn't needed. I tried this vs a Samsung 850 pro, and there was no difference in my cheap laptop.
Works perfect so far as I can tell, and my games load way faster now. Boot-up is super quick too.
I recommend turning off hibernation mode, it writes all your memory to disk every time. Excessive writes are what will prematurely kill any SSD.
I built a new rig for my wife to replace an aging Athlon II system from 2012. If you don't use an SSD as your OS drive in 2018 you're doing it wrong. I opted for this Silicon Power SSD in the 250GB capacity. I have never heard of or purchased from Silicon Power before, but the other positive reviews seemed praiseworthy and there are very few reports of failures, so I decided to give it a go. It has 3D NAND and was incredibly inexpensive, so I figured I couldn't go terribly wrong. The drive is incredibly lightweight, so much so that I was almost worried it was nothing more than a plastic shell. The drive has threaded screw-holes along both the side and the bottom, so you have options in mounting. My case had provisions for both, and I mounted it "flat" against the motherboard-side of the case, vertically. The drive is very quick, I'm not the kind of guy that has to speed-test my drives, but it cold-boots into Windows 10 in about 10 seconds or less, and wakes from sleep nearly instantaneously. Performance-per-dollar so far is outstanding. If it ever fails on me I'll update the review, but so far so good.
Bought this for more storage and too improve PUBG. Works like a charm, I load in before I land. Now if you jump out at your first chance, you may have to wait for to render for a few seconds but it's still a massive improvement.
Feature Product
- 3D NAND flash are applied to deliver high transfer speeds
- Remarkable transfer speeds that enable faster bootup and improved overall system performance. The advanced SLC Cache Technology allows performance boost and longer lifespan
- 7mm slim design suitable for Ultrabooks and Ultra-slim notebooks.
- Supports TRIM command, Garbage Collection technology, RAID, and ECC (Error Checking & Correction) to provide the optimized performance and enhanced reliability.
- 3-year limited warranty. (Please register your product via SP official website to get the complete manufacturer warranty services, product support and more.)
Description
3D NAND Technology for Enhanced Reliability and Power Efficiency
Applying the advanced 3D NAND flash, Ace A55 features higher reliability and better power efficiency than traditional SSDs equipped with 2D NAND flash. The A55 offers improved endurance and longer battery life that you're able to work longer without frequently recharge your laptop.
High Transfer Speeds for Fast Start Up
Powered by high quality controller and original synchronous NAND flash, the A55 delivers incredibly high transfer speeds that enable short boot time, fast application loading and quick file processing.
SLC Cache Technology for Performance Boost and Longer Lifespan
The A55 especially applies the ”SLC Cache technology” that allows all data to be written in the SLC portion first and leads to higher peak writing performance. In addition, the technology can reduce write amplification and thus offer better endurance and longer lifespan of the SSD.
Free-download SSD Health Monitor Tool - SP Toolbox Software
The A55 comes with a free-download SSD health monitor tool - SP Toolbox Software, which is especially designed for you to easily monitor the current health status of a SSD. By such, you can run a performance test, get an overall health evaluation and check detailed information about your SSD, including used space on device, device temperature, total bytes written, S.M.A.R.T. status, erase count status and block numbers.
*Please download the software at SP Official Website.
Absolutely Reliable with Bad Block Management
The A55 is built with Bad Block Management, which can continually monitor and replace bad blocks to keep your system in good condition with prolonged lifespan of a SSD.
Multiple Techniques Supported
The A55 is one of the lightest and thinnest SSD of its kind yet it is shock- and vibration-proof since it contains no moving parts. Furthermore, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring system and ECC technology are equipped to promise higher data transmission safety.
3-year Warranty
The Ace A55 is backed by 3-year warranty.
*Please register your product via SP official website to get the complete manufacturer warranty services, product support and more.
Box Contains
1 x Silicon Power Ace A55 Solid State Drive
Purchased this to use with an Xbox one s, and specifically for playing pubg. It was installed in a Sabrent Ultra Slim USB 3.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive ($10). There are some YouTube videos on how to get it configued and formatted. I noticed an immediate improvement, especially when loading the game, entering the lobby, and rendering of structures at the initial drop. This is important as my matches were previously resulting in rubber banding and often immediate defeat, because the other guy would often be armed before I even had a chance. There was no noticeable improvement in the later play of the game. In addition, everything also appears clearer and less pixelated (not sure if that is the SSD). For the small investment, it was well worth it.
Seeing as how Amazon has started lumping the reviews of multiple products together, I'll specify the model here. This review is for the M.2 NVMe 256GB drive and not the 1TB SSD that most reviews in this section are covering. Blame Amazon for this, not me.
Anyway, this little drive offers great value for it's capacity, and performance. It's perfect for an OS drive and runs reasonably cool under load.
The only con I can list is in regards to the stupidly placed stickers on the drive. Then again all M.2 drives have one on at least one of their chips. If you want to make use of a heatsink, you will have to remove the sticker and void your warranty. This is a universal problem with all M.2 drives and it should be illegal as it interferes with warranty laws in many states and countries.
Otherwise, this little drive just works, and does so with great speed. Well worth getting for $44.00 or less.
i use these drivs on many of my consumer based servers builds as boot drive. I ran into an issue with one of my higher end production server 2016 where i was using intel 240GB SSD that was nearing its useful life. i bought a Samsung 860 250GB SSD and installed in the server to use included samsung cloning software. which successfully moved data etc but upon booting server, it Failed with Disk error.
i thought bad USB cable, so i used a SATA bus and put drive in caddy and then did setup and STILL Failed!!
i then used cloning software that comes with Silicon Power 256G drive, and Voila!!! SUCCESS it is..
so not only this drive is my drive of choice for my consumer scale file servers' boot drive but also its included software bailed me out on my strong production server in my private cloud.
i have bought Tens of these drives and will keep buying for their quality and reliability plus included software does NOT require to be used for SP drive. it can clone ANY Drive to ANY drive. what a nice drive and software.
Replacing the HDD in my Acer One Aspire Netbook with this SSD was the best thing I have done in a long time. The netbook came with Win 7 and was reasonably responsive. Over time I upgraded to Win 10 and performance was terrible. I didn't use it much over time and then last March decided to put Win 7 back. With Microsoft planning to withdraw support for Win 7 next year it was either stay with unsupported Win 7 or figure out how to get Win 10 performance improved. I felt sure the weak link was the HDD so I started searching the internet to see what I would have to do to replace the HDD with a SSD. Other models of the netbook had the bottom panel attached with four screws but my model required removing the keyboard to get to the screws holding the bottom panel. There were several videos showing how to do it and they made it look so simple but releasing the clips holding the keyboard just wasn't working for me. Finally I combined the methods shown in three videos, got aggressive and finally got it released.. That gave me access to four screws holding the bottom panel and once I got it off access to the HDD was easy. I did not order the SSD until I was sure I could get to the HDD. The HDD replacement with the SSD was simple as well as putting things back together. One note - I followed the instructions and released the clamp holding the keyboard ribbon cable so I could set the keyboard aside and not damage the cable. Putting that ribbon cable back aligned so all the keys worked properly turned to to be a slight problem. There isn't much room to position the ribbon properly into it's connector and I had to try three times before all of the keys worked properly. I believe If a person is careful the job can be done without disconnecting the ribbon cable. One other thing to consider is the size of the SSD if you plan to install the OS with a system image restore. I started to get a 240GB SSD which would be plenty large enough for this netbook but I happened to recall that system image restore requires a drive of the same size or larger than the one it was made on. In this case the HDD was 250GB so the 240GB SDD would not have worked with the system image restore. Thus I changed and got this 256GB SSD for the same price.
Even tho this netbook's disk controller is stage two at 3Gb/s which impedes the SSD speed of 6Gb/s the performance improvement over the HDD is fantastic. Everything that was a snails pace with Win 10 and the HDD is now exponentially faster. I went through a hefty learning curve figuring mout how to get to the HDD but now that the SSD in in and running I am SO glad I did it. Otherwise this netbook would be on the shelf or in the recycle bin.
This is a great ssd and quite frankly all 5 of them if bout from here are great I keep buying them not only because that are cheap but that are reliable and the combination of SLC and MLC architecture makes this ssd snapy and cost effective at the same time shur it's no Samsung but it's price tag is no that of Samsung's either I would decently recommend this product for every budget pc build or just to breath a bit of life into any old desktop or laptop that files a bit sluggish the conversation from mechanical to flash is literally one of the best performance increasing upgrade one can make and this product give you a cost effective option so u don't need to break the bank but still get less than 5 second boot times over all I am very happy with this and I will be purchasing several more
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