Introduction

Silicon Power is a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer founded in 2003. In enthusiast circles, they are well known for providing high-quality flash storage products at reasonable pricing. Silicon Power's various product lines include DRAM modules, SSDs, flash drives, and portable storage.

Today's review covers the Silicon Power P34A80 SSD. It comes in the M.2 form factor, using a fast PCI-Express x4 3.0 NVMe connection to interface with the rest of the system.

Under the hood, the Silicon Power P34A80 is built around a Silicon Motion SM2262 controller paired with Intel 64-layer 3D TLC flash. In order to ensure best performance, the P34A80 has DRAM cache and SLC caching.

Silicon Power makes the P34A80 available in capacities of 256 GB ($48), 512 GB ($75), 1 TB ($132) and 2 TB ($285). Endurance for these models is set at 380 TBW, 800 TBW, 1665 TB and and 3115 TBW respectively. Silicon Power also includes a five-year warranty.