We would like to thank at first Silicon Power for supplying their US75 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for testing and reviewing.

 

 

About Silicon Power:

 

"Founded in 2003 by a group of enthusiastic data storage industry experts, Silicon Power is committed to delivering outstanding product and service quality. Headquartered and with our own state-of-the-art production site in Taipei, we have become a leading manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, solid state drives, DRAM modules and industrial-grade products. As an international player with four branch offices around the globe, we continuously strive to offer the perfect data storage solution for all requirements of modern digitalized life. With a strong focus on combining innovative technology and award-winning design, we live up to our brand promise to reliably preserve and protect your most valuable data.

Because memory is personal."

 

Product Features:

 

Next-Level Performance with PCIe Gen 4 NVMe

Supercharge your creative workflow with our PCIe Gen 4x4 NVMe SSD. Designed for content creators, it offers lightning-fast read/write speeds up to 7,000/6,500MB/s, making it ideal for high-power users. Maximize your productivity and unleash your creative potential effortlessly.

Efficiency Meets Capacity

Maximize your creative potential with US75. With up to 4TB of storage space, you can store and access your video projects, media files, and creative assets effortlessly, fueling your content creation journey.

Flexible Upgrades

Boost your productivity wherever you go with M.2 2280 small form factor seamlessly integrates into laptops, unleashing rapid data transfer speeds and empowering content creators to work with speed and precision.

Reliable Performance

Built-in data security and error-correction capabilities to ensure the integrity of your information and provide a reliable storage solution. And the SP Toolbox helps you monitor your drive’s health, available space, temperature and more. To help you work with confidence, knowing your files are protected.

 

Product Specifications:

 

Capacity: 2TB

Dimensions : 22.0mm x 80.0mm x 3.6mm

Weight: 8g

Interface: PCIe Gen 4x4

Performance Read(max.): 7,000MB/s

Performance Write(max.): 6,500MB/s

System Requirements: Computer with M.2 slots supporting PCIe interface and an OS with NVMe support

Operating Temperature: 0°C - 70°C

MTBF (est): 1,500,000 hours

Shock Resistance Test: 1500g/0.5ms

Certification: CE, FCC, UKCA, BSMI, Green dot, WEEE, RoHS, KCC

Warranty: 5-year limited warranty

*The SSD warranty is based on the TBW or Warranty period.

Note*Performance read/write varies by system performance (such as hardware, software, and interface mode) and capacity

 

Silicon Power has released a new PCIe 4.0 SSD series with the US75 code name, sporting read speeds of about 7000MB/s and 6500MB/s writes, which should be plenty for the mainstream to high-end segment. The drives can be purchased with capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB or 4TB and are advertised with a TBW of about 300,600, 1200 and 3000TB.

The product is shipped inside a very slim cardboard/plastic enclosure, allowing the potential client to see how the drive really looks like, instead of a photo. The manufacturer does also list here the rated speeds, along with the warranty period.

 

 

 

On the back, we will note the power rating of the drive, details on Silicon Power service centers but also the product internal code name and its serial number:

 

 

 

The US75 2TB drive does include a large sticker on the frontal area of the PCB, which holds the product serial number:

 

 

 

On the back side of the US75, there are no extra components present:

 

 

 

After removing the top sticker, we will note the main controller and four NAND packages:

 

 

 

While on the Silicon Power UD80 we have had a MAXIO MAP1202 controller, here we have a MAXIO MAP1602A upgraded model from Maxiotek, which is basically a spin-off from JMicron. The controller comes on a 12nm TSMC process fabrication node and sports an ARM Cortex-R5 architecture. The MAP1602A includes four channel and only supports DRAMless builds:

 

 

 

The NAND packages sport the VSYMT04TA104 code name, are manufactured by YMTC and are 232-layer TLC flash with a die size of 68mm2:

 

 

 

Test Bench:

The test system did incorporate a AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-core CPU, a Sabrent Rocket 2x16GB DDR5 4800MHz C40 memory kit, a PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 5700 video card but also a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 2TB SSD; all these were connected to the BIOSTAR X670E VALKYRIE AM5 motherboard. As a power supply we have chosen a Cooler Master 850W non-modular and the system was running the latest Windows 11 OS build as well.

The drive has arrived unformatted, but for testing purposes, we have formatted it NTFS:

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

The Tests

 

3DMark

Quick System Drive Benchmark

 

 

CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

 

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

 

CrystalDisk Test Suite (Random)

 

HDTune Test Suite

Blank SSD

 

PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

Anvil [Read]

Anvil [Write]

PCMark 10

Quick System Drive Benchmark

 

Extra Tests:

 

AS SSD Benchmark

 

AS SSD Benchmark (IOPS)

Blank SSD

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Blank SSD

 

We have monitored the drive while continuously writing to it, until filling more than half of the total space, before starting the second stage of our tests. For the US75, we have monitoring for both NAND and controller temperatures; here are the IDLE values:

 

 

 

The write process has started at optimal levels:

 

 

 

The first decrease in speed we have noticed after writing about 580GB of data, which is quite a good result!

 

 

 

At this stage, we have recorded about 49 degrees on the NAND and 58 degrees on the controller:

 

 

 

The second decrease, to around 1GB/s has occurred after having written about 830GB of data:

 

 

 

Even at this stage, the temperatures were looking really good!

 

 

 

Till the end of our test, the speed did hover between 800 and 850MB/s, a result that is quite good for a mainstream to high-end drive:

 

 

 

The Tests

 

3DMark

Quick System Drive Benchmark

 

 

CrystalMark HDD Test Suite

 

AIDA64 Disk Test Suite

 

CrystalDisk Test Suite (Random)

 

HDTune Test Suite

Filled SSD

 

PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

Anvil [Read]

Anvil [Write]

PCMark 10

Quick System Drive Benchmark

 

Extra Tests:

 

AS SSD Benchmark

Filled SSD

AS SSD Benchmark (IOPS)

Filled SSD

ATTO Disk Benchmark

Filled SSD

 

The US75 2TB drive from Silicon Power does use less familiar components, such as the MAXIO MAP1602A 4-channel controller but also the YMTC VSYMT04TA104 232-layer NAND with Xtacking 3.0 technology; this new technology incorporates a 6-plane NAND design which does improve speed and also efficiency. We were quite surprised that the drive can maintain up to 850MB/s writes even after having filled more than half of the capacity, while the drive price is good when compared to the competition.

 

In the HD Tune Writes workload, it is shown how the drive performance can drop just a bit when SLC has been filled and it tries to recover; after the short recovery, the performance is returning to normal levels:

 

 

 

The drive endurance is rated to about 1200TB and the drive is also backed by a 5-year limited warranty. A the time of the review, the drive was available online for about 149 Euros.

 

Silicon Power US75 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is Recommended for:

 

 

We would like to thank again to Silicon Power for making this review possible!