Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2013-09-11
Silicon Power has recently launched a mainstream SSD with decent transfer speeds and a lower 7mm height in order to increase the compatibility and include ultrabooks and other slim devices to the list. Besides the 16 NAND Flash chips, the SSD also features a 72-bit processor from Phison, the PS3108-S8-1 and also 512MB of DDR3 RAM for caching purposes.
Silicon Power has come to the market with a slim 7mm drive model in order to include in the compatibility list thin devices like ultrabooks. Even if the product does not break any records, the read speed is quite good and succeeds to stay in line with other more expensive drives. This drive was thought as an upgrade for people still on HDDs and should experience quite a nice speed boost; of course, if the laptop permits and we have an additional adapter, we could always remove the optical drive and keep the HDD inside the system for storage purposes.
The manufacturer is not holding back and is also offering a full 3-year warranty for the S55 SSD.
As negative points we could enumerate the lack of a metallic bracket for installation inside desktop computers and the smaller write transfer speeds in some of the cases.
The Silicon Power S55 Slim SATA III 240GB SSD can be found online for about 180 Euros.
We would like to thank again to Silicon Power for making this review possible!
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