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Silicon Power US70 PCIe 4.0 NVMe review - Final Words & Conclusion

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/02/2021 12:11 PM [ ] 13 comment(s)

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Final Words & Conclusion

Poooh, son I am not disappointed! Silicon Power offers a tremendously fast product with the US70. Of course, the design basics are based on templates we have seen before and recognize. This means this product looks to be produced by an ODM that we've seen a couple of times already. However, all lights are green on this one. The price is okay, performance grand, up-tp at least the tested 110GB continuous writing you'll be hard-pressed to find a TLC write hole, proper DRAM caches, yeah what's not to like really? Strictly speaking from noting down the highest values, this was among the fastest SSD we have ever tested. But if you look at it relatively towards other SSDs, it's simply put an enthusiast-class performing TLC M.2 SSD. Admittedly we did not stumble into TLC write holes as I expected, so that is good. Next to the TBW values (endurance) have been set at 1.8 PBW for this Silicon power unit, and that is a majestic value.  

 

 

Trace tests you have seen from the PCMark 8 suite for example completely load and stress up the SSD, and it is here where the US70 Pro really delivers. I do deem the PCMark 8 trace tests to be among the best benchmark series in our test suite.  Now we also need to place it all in a relative matter, this SSD does reach 4.5 GB/sec given the right workload and Crystaldiskmark and ATTO indeed hits 5 GB/s. Copying many many gigabytes of movies and ISOs for example, well this SSD laughs at it, and while copying I actually laughed a bit nervously. I mean our 110 GB test file I had to copy towards this SSD from a Gigabit NAS, that took 18 minutes. Then copying the same file from a product of this caliber far less than a minute. 

 

 

Concluding

US70 is a product that manages to impress. Surely to get the best out of it you'll need a PCIe Gen 4 infrastructure and at the time of writing that means a compatible Ryzen processor on say a B550 or X570 chipset-based platform. In 2021 Intel will start with PCIe gen 4.0 as well.  The unit shatters records given the right conditions, and for the rest of them on some workloads, you are down to high-end class TLC NVMe performance. And there is an abundance of choices available these days. Prices in USD are $189 and $379 respectively for the 1TB and 2 TB models. The warranty is a really proper five years, that or the TBW value reached. Whichever one is first. The 1800 TBW (1.8 PBW) value for the 1 TB model is downright superb. I like to close with this line, while top sequential and sustained benchmark figures are incredibly fun to look at and nearly eye-popping with this SSD, it's the overall real-world performance that I care about. And in that respect, we expected to see a bit more perf overall in our trace tests and that is the honest truth. It, however, is amazing to see where prices and performance are now compared to what you got in performance and money a few years ago. At just under 20 cents per GB what a powerful M2 NVME SSD this is, definitely, even highly recommended.

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