Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Silicon Power A55 256GB 3D NAND SSD Review

You guys should take a moment today to read this review of the Silicon Power A55 256GB 3D NAND SSD at Mad Shrimps today.

"As we have seen before with TLC NAND SSDs, the SLC cache is used first for gaining a respectable speed boost and once this one gets filled up, the write speed will start dropping gradually, sometimes under 100MB/s. This particular aspect does not recommend the drive if our workload does imply writing large files frequently onto the drive, but even when we are writing straight to TLC, the access times do remain smaller versus mechanical drives.