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another SSD aspirant
$75/US 480GB ADATA Ultimate SU650 2.5" SSD
ADATA is apparently the cookie-cutter among SDD technologies: They combine all the available controllers and NAND. Not sure how long this one has been on their back-burner, in superceding the SU800 series, although for ADATA it is rather peculiar: On all their drives ADATA provides the usual utilities, whereas this one is comes bare-boned, the one exception being a link to one of the major commercial, sometimes or variously offered if not baited freeware, cloning utilities. It may be jugular competitive economics, especially with a severity seen for potential disruption from Trump's fist in the face of tariffs. Or not. ADATA site appears pointedly to overlook all but newer 3D NAND, when mentioning SLC caching purposefully then to not identify the remaining bulk, in whether stacking from TLC or MLC. Hours averaged over lifespan or a three year warranty can of course be based on an average profits derived from any likelihood average usage will come remotely near to exceeding three years;- As well employing facades erected to prevent later accountability in all but the most nefariously and already known or short of a class-action lawsuit. I've tended to regard to ADATA offhand as a middle of the road name, a value representative from a decisive market demography of users. The recentness of the drive may reflect that at a later point with more research and ratings. As it is the same major distribution outlet listed two 500G drives simultaneously: A Crucial -- as stated and equipped with 3D TLC NAND -- for a sixth more cost than the ADATA 650 model. Averaging for approaching near to $15 a 120GB SDD at some higher capacity. I might expect it of other brandnames, although this is my first encounter with ADATA's deliberate omission from the specs. I even went, on my time, to their website for the specifications download for that little bit of nothingness between the dross and gloss of advertising. Sweet. I guess that means an insider needs go rumorously "transparent", if not one of the review drives ANAND will submit to ANAND Tech or Tom's Hardware, which they'll pry open with a razor bland to ID chip nomenclature to provide users with what they did, or didn't, buy. Performance matrixes did exceed the former SU800 model line, which may be MLC despite middling reviews prior. |
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