Silicon Power PC60: slower, but stable and mainly cheap

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External SSDs are one of the newest types of computer accessories, and I’ve got to like them in recent years. Compared to USB memory sticks, they offer higher speeds and, above all, higher capacity. Yet at the same time, they are still small enough for comfortable carrying in a pocket. We’ve expanded our results database of tested storages with the low-budget PC60 model from Silicon Power.

Read: practical tests

The tests consist of sequential transfer of directories from the RAM disk to the SSD. The files in these directories vary in size. From the largest 9-gigabyte one (when most SSDs reach maximum performance), the file size gradually decrease to very small (12–59 kB) – in such operation, the performance is usually relatively low.





Slightly higher numbers can be seen in practical read tests, but it is still at the end of the list of tested devices. As with the write, you can see relatively good results with the smallest files, where the PC60 took second place.

Read: synthetic tests

The results come from the AS SSD benchmark. The size of the library is set to 1 GB, which means that the measured values do not yet reflect the limitations resulting from the full SLC buffer, which is an integral part of most fast, cheaper SSDs with TLC memory.




Synthetic read tests again do not reach the stated maximum speed, but in this case it’s a little closer. Surprisingly, with reading, we see a slightly better result of the access time, where the PC60 placed in the middle of the tested SSDs.


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