Pros:
- Ridiculously Fast SSD!! Rated Speeds are TRUE!!
- ADATA Reliability with a 3yr Warranty
- SSD Toolbox & Migration software available too
- Decent build quality, doesn't feel like it would break if you sat on it.
Cons:
- None so far. Worked great right out of the box!
Conclusion: There are a tone of inexpensive good SSD solutions these days. It's a great time to need to upgrade that old PC or Laptop. Speeds were also exactly as advertised which is great to see at a 39.99 price point. I included a screen shot of 4 different SSD benchmarking tools which all seem to confirm the SP550's rating.
Crystal Disk Mark - 557.0 Read / 456.9 Write
Samsung Magician - 559 Read / 463 Write (faster than my 250GB Evo @ 405 / 423)
AS SSD - 501.23 Read / 464.87 Write
ATTO - 558 Read / 475 Write
One last thing. We placed this in an HP G72 w/ Intel Pentium 2.3Ghz & 3GB DDR2 Ram originally running Windows 7 64 Bit. My client was on a tight budget so it was a choice between SSD or Ram. And considering it had years of cruft accumulated and a few viruses to boot a clean install was going to be needed anyway. So SSD it was. Boot time improved by half!! Went from 1 minute 4 seconds to just 27 seconds after the upgrade. And that's with all updates and programs reinstalled! Client loves it. We'll hunt down more ram later. But for now... going SSD was the biggest bang for the buck. Get some!!
| Hard Drive | 480 GB |
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