It was only a matter of time until PCIe Gen 4.0 will be the new norm since we already have plenty of M.2s that will saturate the Gen 3.0 x4 bandwidth. But it’s not always about just peak speed but the overall experience and nowadays an SSD must also be affordable if it wants to be competitive.

Companies try to get that right balance of performance, durability and price per GB and here we have Silicon Power‘s full range of M.2 NVMe SSDs under the microscope. More specifically their flagship Gen4 x4, then three Gen3 x4 SSDs with various combinations of TLC/QLC and DRAM/DRAM less/SLC. We will explore all of them in today’s review.