HP S700 2.5″ 500GB SSD

Hewlett-Packard, the ubiquitous brand name that was once the staple of nearly every printer and most personal computers in the country, later refocused its efforts into peripheral electronics and devices after the desktop PC market contracted. Storage devices, such as external drives and component hardware upgrades, have been a very competitive market segment for the past few years, paving the way for successful technology alliances that allow brands like HP to offer some of the best solutions available.

If you’ve kept up with technology news, you might have been misled into believing the SATA 6Gb/s interface was made obsolete by M.2 2280 form factor connections on the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) 3.0 interface. The HP SSD S700 is a 2.5″ solid state drive for the SATA 6Gb/s interface, which is still widely found on mainstream desktop computers and notebook PCs.

HP promises 560 MB/s read and 515 MB/s write speeds from SSD S700, which utilizing 3D NAND technology to deliver impressive storage density and reliability. Adding to its appeal is the cost of solid state drive technology, which has doubled its storage capacity per dollar from just one year ago. In this article for Benchmark Reviews, we test the HP SSD S700 (2.5″ 500GB  model 2DP99AA#ABC) against other solid state drive competition.