The A55 3D-NAND TLC SSD from Silicon Power is oriented towards the mainstream and is meant to boost older (and newer) systems that still rock mechanical drives. It does support the SATA III interface, SLC caching for maintaining high write speeds when performing regular tasks on our PC, while the bad block management technology ensures high reliability.

The manufacturer ships the A55 3D-NAND TLC SSD inside a simple cardboard enclosure, and here we will get additional details on the rated transfer speeds, total capacity, but also the fact that the product features a 3-year warranty and packs a 7mm ultra-slim form factor:

The back side of the packaging reminds us that this product is an excellent upgrade component versus older 5400RPM mechanical drives, but also lists some of the product main features:

The drive chassis is made from aluminum and on the top cover we can spot a large sticker with the product logo and also the serial number:

The bottom layer does pack a textured black paint surface:

On the sides of the drive, we will spot the mounting holes:

Unlike other mainstream SSD models, this one is considerably easy to disassembly, by first removing one side screw; plastic adhesive tape can be seen on both case panels, in order to avoid short-circuits:

The SSD PCB is considerably smaller versus the total footprint of the case; on one of the sides we’ve got the controller, along with one of the 3D NAND TLC Flash packages:

We can spot one 29F01T2ANCMG2 package, which is actually an Intel 16nm 3D TLC:

The second package reads 29F64B2AMCMG2, which is also an Intel part:

As the SSD controller, we can spot a Silicon Motion SM2258XT, which is a DRAMless version of the SM2258: