Silicon Power is a company most may not be familiar with, having mostly sold cheaper flash memory cards and USB flash drives, they like most memory companies have also made kits of DRAM and SSDs, the SSDs they sell are a point of interest to me when browsing SSD pricing last month I fell upon this company and their A55 drives on Amazon when looking for the cheapest SSDs available. With 4.5 star reviews on Amazon and no other professional reviews I reached out to SP and asked for one of their drives, mainly with the intent of seeing if it is any good.

At $85 it is priced against the Patriot Burst 480GB we reviewed last month and is the cheapest 480GB+ drive I can find on the market currently, it seems like something a lot of people are picking up and at the price, it’s at its very understandable. Like all other drives we’ve tested this drive is a 7mm SSD in the 2.5 Inch form factor and has a 3-year warranty.