There’s no need to repeat the war of the clone SSD sheeps with nearly identical Techvest boards, because if you know one, you know all SSDs. Well, yeah, more or less. And then BIWIN comes now with the HP SSD EX950 M.2 2TB from 240 euros and a different design and nice prices. This is even cheaper than a QLC-SSD in the form of the already tested Corsair MP400, which is certainly suitable for permanently stored data, but technically not for a daily fast data transfer. The 2 TB for around 240 Euro with a proper brand also on the sticker are a fair offer, by the way, the test against the Corsair MP400 will show that later.
BIWIN who? You are welcome to have a look at the BIWIN homepage, I will of course refrain from enumerating propaganda. However, as an up-and-coming market player, BIWIN has serious ambitions to bring decent storage products to the market, because the HP logo also commits to a certain level of performance. HP is not a slingshot brand and something must have been thought of there as well, since they are one of the best known PC manufacturers.
But although the company is very broadly positioned, they had almost nothing to offer in the SSD sector. The first, serious attempt by HP itself to offer a consumer SSD for retail ended rather modestly four years ago. Then, with BIWIN and the HP SSD EX920, they suddenly had a product at the start, which relied on a controller from Silicon Motion and Micron’s 64L 3D TLC flash with the SM2262 and already performed quite passably. And now BIWIN is trusted again and releases the whole thing as a completely new line-up to the buyers. The SSD is available in 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB sizes.
Unlike some competitors, however, the HP SSD EX950 does not support hardware encryption and does not offer software in the form of an SSD toolbox, but it does at least support secure erasure. Additionally, BIWIN includes a screw to secure the M.2 SSD, just in case the user is scatterbrained and has scrapped the original screw.
But back to the SSD. It is interesting that BIWIN gives a 5-year warranty or until the TBW of 1400 TBW is reached. The SSD tested today also has a SMI SM2262EN from Silicon Motion in disguise, but branded to HP (H8088). The controller is not brand new, but still up to date. The PCB design and a once again optimized firmware are also important here. 2x 1GB GB Micron DDR3 DRAM promote the performance, 4 modules with 64-layer 3D TLC NAND provide secure storage. These modules are manufactured at BIWIN and only the wafers (Micron) are purchased. Packaging and labeling are now done by BIWIN itself.
The SSD comes without a cooler, but the controller’s heatspreader gets a bit warmer, but not hot yet. The measured power consumption of just under 3 watts on average is good, but I still recommend cooling (at least the controller) in extensive use. That’s all I need to say now, and before I get to the benchmarks on the next page, I of course have the datasheet as an original PDF for you:
Simplified Datasheet for EX950 M.2_EN
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