Package and its Contents
The UD70’s package is a small, well-described box. It looks exactly the same as the one of the US70 SSD, reviewed a while ago.
We will find the most important specifications on the box, like the drive’s interface, capacity, or warranty. We can also see info about a five-year warranty that is above the typical warranty period for SSD. Most storage products have two or three years of warranty, while the most expensive SSD can have up to ten years of warranty.
The UD70 is in the most popular M.2 2280 format and works on the PCIe Gen 3 x4 bus. The declared maximum bandwidth is up to 3400MB/s what isn’t the fastest but reaches nearly the limit of an M.2 PCIe 3.0 bus. Even though, in theory, PCIe 3.0 x4 should go higher, then the fastest drives are not really passing the 3.5GB/s bandwidth, while in our tests, the UD70 could reach 3.45GB/s.
Silicon Power UD70 uses the Phison E12 controller and Micron 96-layer, QLC NAND. This is a reliable mix which also keeps the price low enough to be a popular option.
Our tests were performed on the TUF A15 laptop from ASUS, which is slightly slower in storage tests than top desktop motherboards from the latest series. It doesn’t change fact that we could reach the declared bandwidth of the UD70 SSD, so all is absolutely fine.
Above are a couple of additional photos with the UD70 installed on the laptop.
