Introduction

Founded in 2009 in Shenzhen, China, Orico is a hardware manufacturer specializing in storage solutions and accessories. The company offers a diverse range of products, including solid-state drives, external hard drive enclosures, USB hubs, NAS systems, docking stations and more.

The Orico O7000 is a PCI-Express 4.0 drive that’s designed to be cost-effective. To achieve that, it uses the Maxiotech MAP1602 controller, which has been delivering outstanding performance at great pricing in well known drives like the Lexar NM790. Unlike the NM790, which uses YMTC TLC NAND flash, the Orico O7000 comes with YMTC QLC flash, in the 232-layer variant. This should give Orico an additional cost advantage, and I’m really curious what we can expect in performance differences. As expected for a value-oriented SSD, a DRAM cache chip is not available, but the SSD will use up to 40 MB of system memory through the HMB (Host-Memory-Buffer) mechanism.

The Orico O7000 is available in capacities of 512 GB (€50 / $45), 1 TB (€80 / $75), 2 TB (€120 / $115) and 4 TB (€250 / $235). The endurance is set to 300 TBW, 600 TBW, 1200 TBW and 2400 TBW respectively. Orico includes a five-year warranty with the O7000 Pro SSD.