I'd like to know how reliable their SSDs are and what your experiences were. I have seen Logan recommend them in the past although I'm not too sure what he's been recommending these days. I have been doing some research and have been finding mixed things about their products so I would like to hear from others.
Should be worth mentioning too that this specific line are almost exact copies of Crucial's M550 series.
I put 3 128GB SP600's in the recording PCs at the studio when we upgraded last year, they're still running fine and have daily use with uncompressed files. Work great, and are plenty fast for what they are.
gave one to a friend. its great fast.. its alright with compression .. not the best. Not as long lasting as maybe bigger manufacturers.. heard they have FANTASTIC customer service
The SP920 your looking at is using an okay Marvell controller, with Toshiba/SanDisk MLC NAND Flash which is good stuff. Its actually a rebrand of the Crucial M550 which is a pretty good mid-range drive. The only fault of the drive is the write speed which will be slightly hampered when it comes it uncompressed data, although this really isn't something that you can notice in day-to-day use. For the price its at, I say its a very solid buy. Here is a very good AnandTech review of the drive: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7908/adata-sp920-128gb-256gb-512gb-1tb-review
If I had the money I would've went with a Samsung EVO drive but strenuous budgets are strenuous. I need an SSD with some breathing room and on top of that, the SSD is really gonna be used to store the Windows OS and some programs, mainly ones that usually start up with my OS (a la Steam). I'm not gonna be installing any games on this, they'll be going on my 2 HDDs.
@Tjj226_Angel Correct. ADATA used 128bit NAND on all drives. Benchmarks show that the 128GB version is the worst of the four. The 256GB one seems to perform almost as good as the bigger capacities. As long as the SSD can run circles around my current boot drive (1TB Seagate HDD), it seems like a compromise I can live with.
I purchased a 128gb SP900 last year. When i got it the read and write speeds were both around 300mbps. I wasn't bothered much by this since it was still fast. Now the read speed is still 300mpbs but the write is around 100mbps.
My friend bought one and when he plugged it in he couldn't partition it or do anything with it and eventually he couldn't turn on his computer. After hours of trying to figure out why his computer wasn't turning on we found one of the sata pins on it had broken off and it was shorting out his computer. They sent him a new one but it ended up being a huge headache and honestly it has a respectable speed.
Oh wow... that's a f**king steal. If I can get the money and it's still at that price, I'll shoot for that. Thanks I guess. If it jacks right back to the normal prices I've been seeing, still ADATA.