CONCLUSION

   Having reviewed the 1TB variant of the US70 line I more or less knew what to expect from the 2TB capacity model and as you can all tell from the charts they exchange blows with the latter coming on top in a slightly larger number of tests. Now of course 2TB is twice the capacity and with most (if not all) motherboards effectively denying consumers the ability to add more M.2 NVMe drives without sacrificing PCIe slots this also matters. That aside nothing more to say really, the US70 is clearly among the fastest M.2 NVMe Gen 4x4 solid state drives in the market, all that’s left really is for Silicon Power to release higher capacity models.

   So how much does the 2TB capacity model of the US70 line cost currently? Well 3 days into 2021 you can currently find the US70 2TB for USD319.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for around 330Euros inside the EU, a price tag which is roughly 30% over that of the UD70 2TB model. This means that unless you have or intend on getting one of the latest PCIe 4.0 motherboards soon (do take into account that not all PCIe 4.0 motherboards support Gen 4x4 SSDs) it makes far more sense to go for the UD70 2TB instead. With that out of the way however there’s no denying that the US70 2TB is among the fastest SSDs in the market today and for that it clearly deserves the Platinum Award.

PROS

- Top of The Charts Performance (5000MB/s Read & 4400MB/s Write)
- Endurance (3600TBW / 1.7 Million Hours MTBF)
- 5 Years Warranty
- Silicon Power Software

CONS

- Thermal Throttling (During Our SNIA Tests)