Adata SP550 SSD Review

[Guest]

Adata's SP550 is the first SSD to hit our lab with Silicon Motion's new SM2256 controller paired with SK Hynix NAND. But does it compete with Samsung's prolific 850 EVO?

Adata SP550 SSD Review : Read more

 

[Eggz]

A little boring, but I guess this would be good for a value build with an AMD chip for decent performance at a pretty low cost.

 

[jjb8675309]

The 240GB model is a good value but the 250GB EVO is going for $80 right now, I'd probably get that if faced with the choice.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Currently listing on Newegg for $42/$64/$119 for the 120/240/480GB.

$119 for a good name-brand 480GB drive that performs decently enough is good to see, as a 1TB drive should come in right around the $200 mark.

The only thing is, and it's probably why the 960GB hasn't been released is that based on the performance of the 480GB drive they probably have to put in and validate a different controller. The 4 channel controller would just run out of bandwidth trying to handle all the data and would lose out on the parallelism which makes SSDs as fast as they are. So - they'd need an 8 channel controller for sure which might jump the cost a bit.

 

[killerchickens]

Just bought one new for $120 on amazon.

 

[zodiacfml]

If that's the conclusion then Adata has better SSDs compared to Crucial's latest drives. Samsung pretty owns the market due to being also a NAND manufacturer.