New 2TB Colorful SL500 SSD Announced

The Chinese company Colorful, known mainly for the production of motherboards and graphics cards, announced the launch of a new version of its Colorful SL500 SSD unit with a capacity of 2 TB, making this device the one with the highest capacity in the company..

Colorful 2 TB SL500 hits the market for a breakthrough price

This 2 TB Colorful SL500 is based on a relatively inexpensive build in the 2.5 ″ SATA format , and has been designed for users who especially require a large footprint, not peak performance. The unit is based on a Silicon Motion SM2256 controller and advanced TLC NAND memory chips. The declared sequential read is 530 MB / s, and the write reaches 450 MB / s. The efficiency in random operations is 80, 000 IOPS.

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As you can see, this is fairly basic performance, especially considering the drop in speed after filling the high performance buffer whose capacity has not been disclosed. The best of the 2TB Colorful SL500 is priced at around $ 249 before tax. With this, the Colorful SL500 turns out to be one of the cheapest 2 terabyte SSDs on the market.

Although Colorful does not have an official distributor in Spain, its products can be easily found in sellers like GearBest or AliExpress without much difficulty. Colorful SL500 may be the ideal choice for users who want to retire once and for all for the slow and noisy mechanical hard drives, this SSD is still much faster than a mechanical disk, while being quieter and more efficient with the use of energy.

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