Here is my review of my Silicon Power SSD SP120GBSS3S55S25AE
I decided to do a review of one of my Silicon Power 120GB (SP120GBSS3S55S25AE)
Let me start of by saying that I have found no issues with this drive so far. It does come with a 3 year warranty. But so far that has not been needed as the drive has operated flawlessly.
Me rambling a little about warranties and hard drives:
But since I brought up warranties on hard drives, I just wanted to share my viewpoint. It would be a rare case that I myself would ever send back a drive to a manufacture unless I was sure that I had no private information on the drive and it would not be compromised. I like to have my drives erased per military standards by overwriting with various patterns. If a drive is broken I can not do this. I might also not be able to check the drive to verify I had no personal info. To me it is worth the peace of mind to just count my losses and get a new drive and destroy the old one. But if you do not have data on it you are worried about, then a warranty is a great thing. Or if you can trust that your data will not be compromised in transit, or at the end point. I have not reviewed any manufacturers to see how they handle broken drives, but that would be an interesting topic to look into. So to me a 3 year warranty vs a 5 year warranty is not a big deal (Or even a lifetime warranty if it was offered)
Back to the review:
Ok, back to the Silicone Power SSD 3D NAND drive. Here is the one I purchased Silicon Power 120GB (SP120GBSS3S55S25AE)
Here are the stats. Looks like its been on for 3107 hours so far.
As a comparison, here are the stats for the current Mechanical 1T hard drive and my new Team Group 480GB SSD in my desktop I am using to write this post.
SUMMARY
While it is way better then the 1TB Mechanical Hard drive I use for storage, it does not seem to be as fast as the new Team Group 480GB L5 (SSD) T253TD480G3C101
Would I recommend this drive? Yes. It was a very reasonably priced SSD drive and it has been trouble free for months. Price and availability would also play into my decision of course. but I have no complaints with it so far. I am sure it will make a drastic improvement for the laptop It will soon be running in. The one point I would like to make though, is make sure you get a size of drive you will need in the near future, not just what you need right now. I seem to be updating a lot of my drives right now, and in hindsight I wish I would have just bought a larger sizes to begin with. Instead I just end up updating the families PC’s as well.