Package and Contents

Inside the package you will find the SSD itself and a USB Type-C to Type-A cable.

The Drive

The PC60 uses a black plastic casing, which looks clean but is a little bit bigger than necessary.


The back has some more technical information, most importantly the capacity.


A single USB-C port lets you connect to the drive. Unlike many other portable SSDs, the PC60 has no activity LED, which is quite a useful visual indicator for when a transfer is finished or data is accessed.

Disassembly

Taking the drive apart, we see that Silicon Power has combined a traditional SATA SSD with a USB-to-SATA converter PCB. Other vendors build a special size-optimized design on a single PCB, which results in a smaller physical size.


On the main PCB we find one flash chip and the controller; the second PCB has the SATA-to-USB bridge chip. Please note that Silicon Power glued down the USB-C connector, which is a great idea as that connector is usually the first thing to break from mechanical stress—the glue helps avoid that.


The Silicon Motion SM2259 XT is a four-channel value-optimized SSD controller with support for TLC and DRAM-less operation.


The 1 TB flash chip is made my Micron/Intel. It's 96-layer 3D TLC.


An ASMedia ASM235CM is used to convert the USB 3.1 connection to the SATA protocol the SSD understands.