Silicon Power Slim S70 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

At the time of writing, the Silicon Power Slim S70 can be found at Amazon for $108.81, £67.00, or €89.00 respectively in the US, UK, and Germany. A fair price for a quality drive.

Conclusion

It has been a pleasure to review Silicon Power’s Slim SSD line-up and it was no different today with the Silicon Power Slim S70 240GB SSD. We once again saw a drive in a simple black enclosure with a sticker on the top that displays the capacity and model numbers.

We saw a drive that performed very well in our benchmark and very similar to that of the Slim S60, we do however get a longer warranty with the Slim S70 that is backed by 5-years. And let us face it, after five years you’ll want something new anyway with the progress that is being made in the storage sector. We once again saw a drive with a Phison controller and quality NAND, so it’s no surprise that it performed well. With a random 4K performance up to 99K reading and 90k writing is quite good and the sequential performance easily reached and went beyond the promised 550MB/s read and 500MB/s write.

Feature wise we don’t find anything out of the ordinary, but the basics are covered with NCQ, TRIM, Garbage Collection, ECC, RAID ready, and S.M.A.R.T. It would have been nice with a DevSleep feature for notebook users, but the controller doesn’t support that. All in all, a solid drive with solid performance and a great warranty.

The Silicon Power Slim S70 is available in a lot of different capacity sizes and it is also available as upgrade kit that comes with a rugged external USB enclosure and a copy of Echo cloning software for easy migration from your old drive to a new SSD.

Pros

• Great random performance
• Phison Controller
• 5-year warranty
• Fair pricing

Cons

• There were a few drops here and there, visible in the drive analysis charts, but nothing that should be noticeable in real world usage.

“The Silicon Power Slim S70 is an SSD that has a great performance and a long warranty and it would be perfect for the value oriented enthusiast.”

Thank You Silicon Power for providing us with this sample.