Adata 64 GB multifunction SSD
SSD STORAGE IS FINALLY GETTING more affordable, on top of its performance and reliability expectations getting more consistent. After Intel's ultra high performance offerings, here's one that's a little less stellar on the performance front claims yet still quite a bit ahead of hard disks, but has a price and flexibility benefit: less dollars, and an extra CPU-hogging USB interface added. Very useful when you want to move your OS disk to another system and copy everything from the outside, for instance.
Let's see its performance in the storage benchmarks:
Next to an Intel MLC SSD drive, the A-data entry is a bit slower in ops per second and read peak performance, a third thicker at 9.2 mm height, but packs both SATA and USB for external backup use, all at a bit lower price too. Recommended for guys migrating the OS and data sets often from one system to another, and for those looking for cheap, decent performing dual SSD RAID0 or RAID1 setups: A-Data has a matching 3.5-inch dual-SSD enclosure as well.
The drives come in 64GB ($194) 128GB ($335) and 192GB ($562) flavours.
The Good
Great-looking, dual interfaces for in & out of the box versatility - 85 grams is still light to carry
The Bad
Read speeds could be higher since usually Flash doesn't have problems there
The Ugly
No Firewire800 for Apple addicts?
Bartender's Verdict
9 out of 10
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Give us a clue on the price, then. You waffled on enough about it being cheap.
Wheres Cost? "but has a price and flexibility benefit", if it does, what is it? obvious question. Its like little city, like converterbox only more open, being ALL Solid State. Yet Cost is Less than Performance in Potential Quality of Benifit. However, slip those 64 Gb buggers under door & see what happens.BAM, Happy,Lappies.BLAZING: 166Mb/s & it is BLAZING in Todays World, even if 1/2X Topper RAID. STeWie drashek
LOL TAHTS A REELY GUD PRICE OF £ , ISNT IT KEKEKEKE
doh!
Did you use it for your windows partition?
If so - did you experience any stuttering, similar to the problems caused by the JMicron controller?
(See Anand's "Enter the Poorly Designed MLC" article http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=7 )
Hey where are the other benchmarks? like WRITE SPEEDS?
Sure flash drives read quickly...but what about their horrid write speeds?
A detail write speed analysis across the entire medium is much required.
The cost is printed in the article,
Quote: "The drives come in 64GB ($194) 128GB ($335) and 192GB ($562) flavours."
You were reading right to the end weren't you....