Introduction

HP, aka Hewlett Packard, is one of the most well-known tech companies in the world. They produce nearly every product you can think of: laptops, desktops, printers, enterprise hardware, and solid-state drives.

For their SSD storage products, HP teamed up with BIWIN Storage, a large Chinese OEM for SSD solutions with 25 years of experience in the storage and microelectronics business. BIWIN were granted authorization from HP to produce SSDs in their name.

Today we are reviewing the HP P900 portable SSD in the 1 TB variant. The P900 is the company’s newest drive, with support for the blazing fast USB 3.2 2×2 interface, which is rated for up to 20 Gbps. Under the hood, the P900 uses the Silicon Motion SM2320 controller, a highly popular, modern design that combines the USB bridge chip and SSD controller in a single processor, which not only reduces space requirements, but is also cheaper and lowers the design complexity significantly. The P900 uses 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash from Micron, a DRAM cache chip is not installed.

In this review we cover the HP P900 1 TB, which retails for $68, it is also available as a 512 GB ($47) and 2 TB ($116) variant. The warranty is set to five years for all these models.