Review Adata Swordfish M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Affordable, Secure Storage

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Adata’s DRAMless Swordfish combines a low cost per gigabyte with solid performance and hardware encryption.

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[kep55]

I really wonder at times if all gosh & gee whiz Tom's throws out on devices that are fractional seconds faster matters in the real world. Have any of these new & improved devices ever been tested by average Joes and not the "Let's get the highest score in Call of Duty" crowd. I noticed a definite speed increase when I went from 32-bit OS to 64-bit OS, but when I installed a SSD drive as my boot drive nothing perceptively changed. Until the SSD crashed & lost everything and absolutely NOTHING could recover the data. Thank goodness for AOMEI Backupper & WD MyCloud.

 

[mdd1963]

but when I installed a SSD drive as my boot drive nothing perceptively changed. Until the SSD crashed & lost everything and absolutely NOTHING could recover the data. Thank goodness for AOMEI Backupper & WD MyCloud.

You had 4-5 second boot times with a spinning drive, and the same boot times after an upgrade to an SSD? Or you had 30 second boots, and same boot times after upgrade?

(The SSD is normally a 'night and day' difference compared to a spinning drive...)

 

[kep55]

Boot time was the same. Loading applications the same. Losing everything due to a drive crash NOT the same.

 

[seanwebster]

Boot time was the same. Loading applications the same. Losing everything due to a drive crash NOT the same.

That sounds strange. Sorry to hear about the bad experience. Everyone I upgrade noticed a difference between a SSD and HDD for everything. I even notice big responsiveness differences between even SATA and NVMe, personally. What drive/system was it? Good thing you’re smart and have backups in place!

Sometimes people clone and forget to remove their old drives and continue to use their HDD without noticing.

 

[kep55]

It was a Samsung EVO 850 Pro. I think.