Silicon Power P34A80 PCIe 3x4 M.2 2280 1TB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2019-08-27

The 1TB version of the P34A80 SSD does not disappoint at all and in many cases, we have seen even higher read speeds than its 512GB version counterpart. The caching is improved thanks to the double capacity of RAM and well optimized firmware and after the SLC portion gets filled up, we can expect write speeds hovering around 1GB/s. One extra fact to consider is that this product is offered with no less than 5 years warranty, quite enough for a consumer-oriented SSD!

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Packaging, A Closer Look

In this article we will revisit the P34A80 mainstream SSD from Silicon Power, but this time in the more attractive, 1TB format. The product is shipped in a similar cardboard enclosure with a plastic window, so the potential customer can take a look at the drive, without the need of unsealing the box:

 

 

 

Some more details such as the supported bus, voltage, company info is available on the back side:

 

 

 

The inside contents are composed only of a transparent plastic mold, in which the drive is held securely:

 

 

 

The frontal PCB side does contain a large sticker that also acts as a heatsink; here we will find info regarding the internal code name, serial number and storage capacity:

 

 

 

On the back side of the drive, we will find two NAND ICs, but also some RAM cache; we will get back to these later:

 

 

 

After the removal of the large top sticker, we can take a look at the rest of the components:

 

 

 

Instead of using Nanya RAM ICs, the 1TB version packs SKhynix H5AN4G8NBJR 512MB caching RAM ICs:

 

 

 

The central controller is the same 8-channel Phison PS5012-E12-27 that does support QLC, 3D TLC NAND and PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interfaces:

 

 

 

The TLC 3D NAND flash is manufactured by Toshiba, using 64 layers on a 15nm manufacturing process; this drive comes with a total of 25GB of SLC cache, which provides quite a bit of boost during normal operating conditions; the product code name is the same as on the 512GB drive variant:

 

 

 

The same SKhynix H5AN4G8NBJR 512MB IC is present on the opposite side of the PCB as well, for a total of 1GB:

 

 

 

The last two NAND ICs on the back do bring the total storage capacity to 1TB:

 

 

 

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