Is Silicon Power a good SSD brand?

[WhacKuum]

Hey guys,

Silicon power just launched the cheapest 1TB SSD in my country which is approx 37$ cheaper than the current Crucial MX500. Is it worth saving that money or should I go for the Crucial brand. They also offer 3 year warranty when compared to MX500's 5 year warranty.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

Go for the Crucial as it will be significantly faster

[Sakkura]

Silicon Power's been around for a long time, they're a decent enough minor brand (you've got loads of brands using the same hardware anyway, so brand is often meaningless). But the MX500 is a pretty fast SSD and likely faster than whatever Silicon Power model you're looking at. I wouldn't be surprised if they're using an SM2258 controller just like the Crucial MX500 does, it's been really popular for a while (like the SF-2281 back in the day). But the MX500 will have faster NAND, which is what helped it stand out from the crowd in benchmarks when it launched. Crucial's in a good spot there as they're one of the few manufacturers of NAND, so they get first pick of what they make.

[Buggerlugz]

Picked up a very cheap Silicon Power 1TB SSD from Amazon recently £35. Worked great at first, I spent a day moving my big xbox one games over to it. Performance was top notch. Forza 5 went from 5mins 30seconds to 1min 28seconds load time. Day 2 I powered on the console and the games were gone. The drive was dead, totally, refused to even power up. It literally died in 1 day!  Returned it to Amazon for a full refund on Day 3.

 

Will replace it with a Samsung drive me thinks. Probably a good reason they're so cheap. One being the total lack of Dram on these SP SSD's.