Package and its Contents
The XS70 SSD arrived in a retail package with a blister-type, transparent window so that we could see the product.
We will find the most important specifications on the package, like the drive’s interface, capacity, or warranty. The drive is covered by a five-year warranty which we could already see in the last generation of Silicon Power SSD. A typical warranty for SSD is around two to three years, so it’s an advantage to have a whole five years of warranty. This warranty is limited to the SSD’s TBW. Because of cryptocurrency miners who started to use storage devices for calculations, manufacturers decided to limit products’ warranty with a maximum writes, so it won’t generate additional losses. It’s pretty understandable. The typical SSD life in a home or office environment is longer than five years, so if we use it for gaming, it should live at least as long as the given warranty period.
The XS70 is designed in a popular M.2 2280 format and works on the PCIe Gen 4 x4 bus. The declared maximum bandwidth is up to 7300MB/s. That’s about the maximum we can expect on the current generation of M.2 sockets, and I assume we won’t see much more until the PCIe 5.0 appears on the mass market.
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