Bink Black Opal X570 Pro 2 TB Review

If there is one thing that never bodes well for our miniature computer games community, it is a monopoly. It may sound a bit strange, considering our modest hobby, but listen to me. We saw it again and again. One company dominates on the market in a specific field for one, two, three years and suddenly stopping progress, research and development falls from the cliff, and we begin to debut general Bland products with slight gradual improvements of Gen-on-Fen. A breakthrough revolutionary stages of engineering have long gone, aimed at maintaining this hungry competition. This is only 5% better performance, 10% higher speed, 5% higher price. You get the point.

Let’s be sincere, there is no arguing about it; Phison, at least for SSD controllers, now has all cards (i.e. market domination). The controller technology has dominated the PCIe space for some time, and mainly because it provides exceptional performance all over the board. It does not matter if this is the last gene with the key T500 or the current gene with the stupidly effective Corsair MP700 elite; Most of the best SSDs, currently, currently contain Phison controllers, certainly PCIE 5.0. It’s just a fact.

This does not mean, however, that there are no alternatives. Or things in the works that are to disrupt the flow of a immense boy. Silicon Motion wants to do it, and that’s where Black Opal X570 Por 5.0 SSD Biwin plays.

In the heart of X570 lies a completely novel SM2508 SM2508 controller. It is effectively chip Cortex, built at the back of Tech EUV 6 Nm EUV TSMC. It is an eight -channel project that aims to run NAND packages for about 3600 Mt/s or more. Silicon traffic was announced by the controller at the end of 2024 and finally landed with us in his first consumer form, thanks to Biwin, who paired him with some 232-tires Micron TLC NAND, complete with 2 TB LPDDR4 TB LPDDR4 cache, “Grafen thermal pad” and, well, constrained in the world. Although more about that in a minute.

So a little tardy for a party? Yes, technically, we have had PCIe 5.0 disks for some time, but still giving Phison something to think about is not bad, and I’m curious. Remember that it has many competitions, with how Samsung 9100 Pro, with the presto controller, and of course SSDs, such as Crucial’s T705, with the legendary Phison E26 seriously well established on the market.

A lot has been promised here. Low power draw, high efficiency, good thermal and improved strength assessment (1500 TBW for the 2 TB here). It is available in capacity from 1 TB to 4 TB, and you can also take one with or without taxes depending on fantasy. It is slim, one -sided and ready to ass with immense boys, regardless of configuration. At least if you can get it.

And this is the first solemn obstacle. To be blunt, now there is availability, well, tragic. You can officially pick them up in Great Britain. It is beyond the magazine in Australia. It has constrained availability in Europe and is not even mentioned in the USA. Considering the current tariff confusion in this way and lack of shipments, as well as the fact that Budin is a Chinese company, I would not expect that it will land in the United States in the near future. Even when the current administration is withdrawn, 140% of tariffs. Prices in Great Britain are mostly very competitive; 240 GBP for the 2 TB model that I have on the test, puts it on about £ 0.12 for GB. For comparison, Crucial’s T705 moves to £ 0.14, and the latest 9100 Pro Samsung is 0.13 GBP. So quite an average road.

But that’s it. It’s a bit average. Certainly when it comes to PCIe 5.0 disks. If you want to break into the market, which has been so fortified as SSD they have become, you need something flashy, something mighty, something that blows the barn door and goes crazy after breeding, screaming at you vulgarisms, while speaking that you can buy a bloody thing. And the black opal does not do it.

Sequential numbers are mighty, don’t get me wrong. 14 Gb/s on reading and 13 Gb/s on the record are pure numbers. He overcomes 1 TB T705, which I tested nicely at the beginning of this year, although he lost from 9100 Pro Samsung (probably then understood this point price). Equally random 4K performance is quite ok again; 91 Mb/s on the reading and 304 Mb/s on the record give it a reputable versatile result, with the record a bit Meh, even compared to the T700 Crucial from almost three years ago.

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Then there is a final fantasy load tests, and oh, boy, or something chug. Why are you asking? Well, he gets positively burdensome 8.301 seconds. The only pursuit I have recently tested is slower than that is the 2230 miniature form of WD SN770M. You know, PCIE 4.0 ONE to steam deck, it is not good …

Then there is thermal efficiency, something that both silicon movement and BiWin shouted from the roofs in their marketing materials, and, unfortunately, is simply average. Under the dense, fleshy radio to the motherboard industry, supplemented with 74.0 ° C. This is cooler than most Phison E26 drives, for sure, but it is not almond on the newer E321t found in the Corsair MP700 Elite and others.

So how did you round such a review? Is Black Opal X570 Pro compelling? NO. Not really. It is credible, clear; 1500 TBW is certainly not a bad strength rating, but when it comes to the Silicon Motion controller, it’s simply not there, certainly not for PC games. There may be loads that can apply them better, but it lacks a blow that we are looking for newfangled games. This is neither particularly affordable nor available, and unfortunately it lacks Gusto to really attack on the SSD market. It’s just average.