"The Silicon Power XS70 2TB isn't revolutionary, but then nobody expects it to be. It's a highly competitive SSD with great [[link]] performance, an attractive design, and it offers good value for money. It's not perfect, it lacks its own software and hardware encryption but for a PS5 or PC gamer, that won't matter. Load it up with your game library and you'll love it."
PC Gamer score: 89%
Okay, somehow I missed the memo which stated just how ludicrously cheap solid state storage had become. We've seen slightly cheaper 2TB SSDs, for sure, such as the Crucial P3 Plus, but that's a much slower drive. This 2TB Silicon Power XS70 is about as fast a PCIe 4.0 SSD as you can get and it's just $110 at Newegg today.
It's not some barebones drive, either. It ships with a full heatsink on it, making it suitable to drop into a PlayStation 5 for a serious storage upgrade as well as being a perfect place to drop either a new Steam library or to use as a speedy boot drive.
In our Silicon Power XS70 2TB review our Chris noted that, while it doesn't come with any hardware encryption or extra software, it's an excellent option [[link]] for a PC gamer just looking for some fast storage.
"The XS70 performed well in the thermal test," said Chris at the time. "A load temperature of 63°C for a top spec PCIe 4.0 SSD is outstanding, and it goes to show that modern high performance SSDs require some kind of cooling, either from a bundled heatsink, or from a motherboard. Naked PCIe 4.0 drives are simply too hot."