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Silicon Power PX10 Portable SSD Review: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
y Ganesh T S on March 4, 2024 8:00 AM EST - Posted in - Storage - SSDs - JMicron - Silicon Power - Portable SSDs Silicon Power's product lines have made their mark in the entry-level market with aggressive pricing. In late 2023, the company introduced a number of portable flash-based storage devices - the MS70 / DS72 thumb drives with SSD-class performance (using the Phison U17 native UFD controller), and the PX10 portable SSD in a gumstick form-factor.
Almost all of the recent product introductions in this category have incorporated them to offer compelling performance at very attractive price points (BOM savings due to lesser number of chips on the board) while also being power efficient. This was quite popular in the initial wave of NVMe SSD enclosures back in 2018, but ended up causing significant consumer grief with newer platforms from late 2019 onwards. In fact, we also added a spare SanDisk Extreme PRO M.2 NVMe SSD to the CPU direct-attached M.2 22110 slot in the baseboard in order to avoid DMI bottlenecks when evaluating Thunderbolt 3 devices.
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