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Silicon Power XD80 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe 3.0 SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2022-09-25

The new XD80 2TB version from Silicon Power is very interesting, since it does not come with the previous controller but retains the same internal product code. As we have noted from the test results, the drive trades punches in terms of performance with the 1TB version while blank, but when filled to about 60% of its capacity, it falls a bit behind. We think that this can be attributed to the Realtek RTS5762 controller, which operates differently but unfortunately not a lot of info is available online about it.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

The test system did incorporate a Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core CPU, two Trident Z RGB 3200MHz 8GB memory modules with 16-18-18-38 XMP 2.0 timings, a PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 5700 video card but also a Patriot Memory Viper VP4100 PCIe 4.0 SSD ; all these were connected to the BIOSTAR B550GTA motherboard. As a power supply we have chosen a Cooler Master 850W non-modular and the system was running the latest Windows 10 OS build as well.

The drive has arrived unformatted; we did proceed with the usual steps in order to format it as NTFS:

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive; while the initial revision of the XD80 was packing a Phison PS5012-E12S-32 controller, the new SKU does come with a Realtek RTS5762 which is NVMe 1.3 compliant, features 8 flash channels and supports various types of 3D TLC and 3D QLC NAND Flash memory, with robust LDPC-based ECC methods to ensure proper endurance.

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