SSD (transfer rates) question, SOS

[ConstantineMH]

Alright, so, I ordered a new SSD for the new custom PC I`m building. The brand of the SSD is ADATA Premier Pro SP900. It was on sale at 100eu, from 140eu, it had good transfer rates and so I got it...once it arrived this morning and I unpacked it, I check at the back

and this is the label that caused me endless horror.

1>>>As far as I know, 550MB/s read & 530MB/s write are pretty decent, but that appears to be only for documents(!)?

2>>>Have I been tricked from the marketing game and buy an SSD that excels in documents but it mediocre at games and things like that? (My custom PC will be for gaming)


2>>>I`m curious if that`s how things go with all SSDs, if they show you the max doc speed they have and if the multimedia speed is always lower.

3>>>Should the multimedia speed be in par(around 500mb) with the document speed or an actually good SSD?

4>>>Is this SSD is not what I`m actually looking for, (I`m looking for something that will provide me high transfer rates so the PC will be relatively fast on that part, on top of RAM, etc etc etc), is there any other SSD you can recommend for me to get with the proper spec, around the same price?


Thanks everyone that took the time to read this and posted a reply!
Have a great day,
Constantine

 

[RealBeast]

It is an older model, but that is why the price is lower. Tom's looked at it and approved of it in a short review HERE. I assume that you got a 256GB model at that price.

When it says up to xxMB/s it means the best case scenario, usually large sequential reads and writes. Random reads/writes depend on several factors (such as file size and queue depth -- how many things are waiting) and are measured in IOPS.

Bottom line is that it is a good older model (late 2012) that will perform fine. It is actually difficult to see any real difference between different SSDs for most tasks, and you would not really see any difference in every day use compared to the very newest SSDs.

 

[ConstantineMH]

It is an older model, but that is why the price is lower. Tom's looked at it and approved of it in a short review HERE. I assume that you got a 256GB model at that price.

When it says up to xxMB/s it means the best case scenario, usually large sequential reads and writes. Random reads/writes depend on several factors (such as file size and queue depth -- how many things are waiting) and are measured in IOPS.

Bottom line is that it is a good older model (late 2012) that will perform fine. It is actually difficult to see any real difference between different SSDs for most tasks, and you would not really see any difference in every day use compared to the very newest SSDs.

Thanks a lot for the time you too to reply, mate!