Package and its Contents
The UD90 SSD arrived in a retail package with a blister-type, transparent window so that we could see the product. The package is about the same as that of most previously reviewed Silicon Power SSD.
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 UD90 is designed in the most popular M.2 2280 format and works on the PCIe Gen 4 x4 bus. The declared maximum bandwidth is up to 4800MB/s. That doesn’t seem high considering that the fastest SSD can make up to 7400MB/s. However, the most important is performance in random operations which we can translate into typical daily work, gaming, and other tasks on many smaller files.
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