Silicon Power US70 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive Review

With PCI-Express 4.0 finally being available on both AMD and Intel platforms there are quite a lot of Gen4 NVMe solid state drives to choose from. These offer amazing speeds over traditional SATA-based solid state drives and even newer PCI-Express 3.0 NVMe drives. Today we are going to be taking a look at Silicon Power’s US70, which makes use of the Phison E16 controller and Kioxia 96-layer TLC NAND. That combination will give you sequential read and write speeds of 5000 MB/s and 4400 MB/s respectively, while also packing in a very high endurance rating (TBW) of 3600TB (2TB version) and a 5-year warranty. Let’s take a look.