Silicon Power S55 Slim SATA III 240GB SSD Review

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.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

The SSD we are going to look upon in this article sports the later 7mm format, which also makes it suitable for ultra-portables. On the front page of the packaging we can see a photo of the main product, along with the total drive capacity and the rated speeds:

 

 

 

On the back side we have the product features in more details, along with a speed comparison with the regular HDDs:

 

 

 

For additional security, Silicon Power has sealed the box on both ends:

 

 

 

Besides the SSD, we will also get a small manual and a bag of screws:

 

 

 

The manual we have mentioned before has instructions for mounting the SSD in different systems:

 

 

 

The drive chassis is made from aluminum and on the top side we can find a nice sticker:

 

 

 

The bottom side is quite plain, without any extra specifications:

 

 

 

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