Can someone tell me how good this SSD is?

[RDawG_]

So for an SSD i got recommended about this one

240gb http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3240gmc

120gb http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3120gmc

Can someone tell me if this is good? cause right now im liking the prices 😛

 

[Ecky]

Anandtech did a review of those drives last month:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10131/the-adata-premier-sp550-ssd-review

Their conclusion:

Ultimately the bottom of the SSD market is crowded and it's hard to make a product stand out, especially as the limiting factor in both cost and performance is frequently the NAND. No value drive is without its faults and there's no clear top performer in this segment. But the ADATA SP550 does manage to stand out unambiguously with the best pricing at 120GB and 240GB while not earning notoriety for its performance. We can't reasonably demand more than that from a value drive.

Or, in other words, it's really cheap, performance isn't awful, and they didn't run into any problems in their testing.

 

[RDawG_]

Anandtech did a review of those drives last month:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10131/the-adata-premier-sp550-ssd-review

Their conclusion:

Ultimately the bottom of the SSD market is crowded and it's hard to make a product stand out, especially as the limiting factor in both cost and performance is frequently the NAND. No value drive is without its faults and there's no clear top performer in this segment. But the ADATA SP550 does manage to stand out unambiguously with the best pricing at 120GB and 240GB while not earning notoriety for its performance. We can't reasonably demand more than that from a value drive.

Or, in other words, it's really cheap, performance isn't awful, and they didn't run into any problems in their testing.

If you were in my position would you take this since its decent?? cause its sounds fine for me but im not sure

 

[Ecky]

I actually just bought a cheap, low-end SSD. I opted to spend a few dollars more for a variant of the Samsung 850, because I trust their reliability a lot more. I'm not saying the A-Data drive will fail, but I've never had a Samsung or Intel SSD fail (in fact, I have some 7 year old Intel SSDs still running strong), and had multiple failures from other brands.

 

[RDawG_]

I actually just bought a cheap, low-end SSD. I opted to spend a few dollars more for a variant of the Samsung 850, because I trust their reliability a lot more. I'm not saying the A-Data drive will fail, but I've never had a Samsung or Intel SSD fail (in fact, I have some 7 year old Intel SSDs still running strong), and had multiple failures from other brands.

Do you mind if i check it out please? :0

 

[Ecky]

The particular SSD I bought is an mSATA Samsung PM871, which is OEM-only. I bought it specifically to put in the mSATA slot on my ITX motherboard.

If you want an inexpensive 2.5" SATA SSD, I'd suggest a Samsung 750 EVO or 850 EVO.

 

[RDawG_]

Okay thanks!

 

[marko55]

ADATA makes a half-way decent SSD. Personally I would opt for the Mushkin ECO3 SSD for a nice cheap TLC-based SSD. The concern with TLC SSDs is the performance as they fill up, but that should mostly be with writes. Regardless, I'd over-spec yourself for space. The SM controller has opened up the market for these cheaper TLC SSDs so there's a bunch of options now.