CONCLUSION

   The UD70 arrived shortly after I finished the US70 review so I was very curious to see how this model would perform (being an Gen3x4 one) and as you can see from the charts, I wasn’t disappointed. As a matter of fact, the UD70 outperformed most models in the charts with pretty much only the US70 clearly ahead (and that only when used with a Gen4 motherboard). Of course, I can’t really claim/conclude that the UD70 is the best Gen3 M.2 NVMe SSD out there (since I haven’t tested every model in the market) but it certainly comes very close to that (slight thermal throttling was also observed during the 12 hour tests). As for durability well at 1.8 million hours it doesn’t get much better than this and the same applies for the 5-year limited warranty.

   Even though the UD70 is a brand new line of M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 SSDs it’s priced quite aggressively and so the 2TB variant currently retails for just USD191.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 243Euros inside the EU (Amazon.co.uk). Yes, the UD70 2TB is far from the lowest cost M.2 NVMe SSD in the market to date but considering it goes up against the fastest models of its tier and that in most cases it comes up on top I’d say that Silicon Power did a very good job (some may even call it cheap). All said and done the UD70 2TB is without doubt among the fastest Gen3x4 models in the market today aimed towards demanding users and for that it gets the Platinum Award.

PROS

- Among the Fastest Gen3x4 Models in The Market Today (Up To 3400MB/s Read & 3000MB/s Write)
- Impressive Mixed SNIA Performance Levels
- 1.8 Million Hours MTBF
- 5 Years Warranty
- Price (For Some)

CONS

- Thermal Throttling