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

After getting a PS5 using my older PS4 Pro in my bedroom was becoming quite annoying. It seemed like it was frozen half the time waiting for menus to load. After sliding this in and downloading the OS my PS4 was at least 10xs faster. Now I find myself firing it up way more often. For anything that has a hdd this upgrade is a must and the price of this SSD makes it a no brainer.

This SSD drive makes my obsolete computer useable again.

Trust it blindfolded

Excelent SSD 2T and a convenient price. Thank you

recommend

So my 2TB HDD was faithful, but short lived. About 3 years. It died. Thankfully I had it backed up and bought this SSD. I transferred the data to this SSD and connected back to my computer and all is now fine in my little SSD drive. Great price and it really has 2TB of storage (except for the address being reserved)

My 4 stars are because Ive had a 2TB SSD have performance issues, after using for a couple of weeks - I believe due to internal heating. Amazon accepted the return and the replacement has been perfect - it happens. I would not hesitate to by Silicon Power storage devices in the future as my experience with them has been good.

I have three of these disks (1 TB) installed in a ZFS pool (no mirroring, no raidz). I needed cheap SSDs for my workloads, which are heavily write intensive, but require sporadic, small sized, random reads, a few times every second. Well, NAND flash can be great for that. Or at-least thats what youd expect. Sidenote: if you know anything about 7200rpm spinning drives, you know they can sustain a reasonable ~150-200MB/s sequential write, but throughput will suffer quite a bit if they need to simultaneously seek to fetch non-contiguous data. And then theres the issue of limited IOPS. I wasnt expecting miracles from these SSDs, but I was certainly expecting each to sustain atleast ~200 MB/s sequential writes. Well lo and behold, once you blow through the onboard SLC cache after a measly 30 seconds of writes at ~500MB/s, the drives start choking. Nothing more than ~65MB/s after that. I know these are TLC drives with SLC cache, but woof, those numbers arent great. So, if your workload isnt write heavy, by all means get this thing. But Id think youd want a little more performance out of something only fractionally cheaper than better performing alternatives. Also, no benchmarks posted on here use a large enough test file size to actually blow through the SLC cache, so the only thing you see results for is your SATA connection and/or packet congestion in the PCIe lane. On the positive side, sustained read performance was as expected, saturated the SATA III link without any issues.

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.

Finally updating / upgrading the MBP to its real potential. It moves sooo much faster.