The mainstream PCIe Gen 3x4 P34A60 mainstream SSD from Silicon Power does offer good all-around performance and does not drop to very slow speeds when the cache fills up completely, as we could notice from the HD Tune Pro write test. When copying large files continuously to the drive, we haven’t seen drops of under 90MB/s, which is great for a TLC-based drive, while the 512GB capacity should be enough for a boot drive.

The drive implements NVMe 1.3 standard along with HMB (Host Memory Buffer) that allows allocating more cache from the system, but the performance will differ from case to case, depending on the load of the system. The DRAM-less SM2263XT solution from Silicon Motion does come with LDPC error correction, E2E data protection and RAID engine for enhanced data integrity and stability.

The 512GB drive, as tested, can be found online for a very low price of just 76 Euros!

Silicon Power P34A60 PCIe 3x4 M.2 2280 512GB SSD is Recommended for:

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