Silicon Power XPOWER XS70 2TB, M.2 2280 / M-Key / PCIe 4.0 x4, Kühlkörper

Silicon Power has designed a speedy drive in the XS70. Phison’s E18 controller, SK Hynix DRAM, and TLC 3D NAND provide the drive with the hardware it needs to be at or near the top of every benchmark we ran. While the XPG and MSI were both faster in the synthetic benchmarks, the XS70 was the victor in the real-world tests making for great competition. The 1 TB XS70 sells for about $130, keeping it right at the same price as the XPG Gammix S70 Blade 1 TB and the MSI Spatium M470 1 TB, but the XS70 includes a heatsink while the others do not. Factor in the robust 5-year limited warranty, and it’s difficult not to fall in love with this drive. Suffice it to say, the Silicon Power XS70 easily receives the Overclockers.com Stamp of Approval.

The Silicon Power XS70 drive does perform great versus other models we have tested in the past thanks to the Phison E18 controller coupled with Micron’s 176-layer 3D TLC NAND. We could write lots of data continuously before SLC cache has been fully occupied and even then, the drive remained at very acceptable write speeds. The incorporated heatsink does help with delaying the heating up process till the drive reaches about 73 degrees Celsius, a maximum temperature we have seen other drives reaching with much smaller cooling systems, but those reached it considerably faster.