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even holds tablets up to 8 in Click now to learn more to begin with this is an
SSD update and discussion about the practice of rebranding products as much
as it is an overview of the adata sp920 SSD so let's get into why this product
exists if you're like me and you've been like amp about third generation
sandforce drives since they were shown off at computex 2013 by a data no less
then you'll be disappointed to know that despite ad's close relationship with
sanfor Force this isn't a sanfor force 3000 Series drive and we'll have to wait
a little bit longer for that but that doesn't mean it's a bad product it's not
the first time we've seen SSD manufacturers Source different
controller technology and nand to make
sure that their products stay competitive I mean heck even Intel has
done it so ad went shopping and the
sp920 actually ended up using mostly the same internal guts as the brand new
performance drive from crucial the m550
so at the core of the sp920 is a Marvel 9189 controller with a crucial design
firmware and either eight or 16 chips
soldered to the PCB that feature micron's state-of-the-art high density
20 NM 128 GB Nan flash also present is a
cluster of capacitors on the PCB that hand handle flushing data from the RAM
cache to the non-volatile man flash in the event of an unexpected power loss
this is a feature that is traditionally more common on Enterprise drives where
an unexpected power loss is actually much less likely to occur so it's great
to see it implemented on a consumer drive as well now the choice of m550
Hardware enables a data to deliver a great set of features at a very
competitive price point with solid performance you get trim and active
garbage ction you get AES 256-bit Hardware encryption with support for
Microsoft e Drive and I mean you get like smart and adaptive thermal
monitoring and protection all that good stuff but couldn't you just as easily
get all this by buying a crucial m550 directly why does this product exist
let's talk frankly about rebrands for a moment what's good and what's bad about
them first the good things one is when they offer some kind of a tangible value
ad like a longer warranty or better accessories number two is that it's easy
to find on this drive and evaluate its usefulness for your needs because you
can go and look at a review of one of the equivalent ones even if a site you
like hasn't reviewed this exact one number three is that more competition
does Drive aggressive pricing for consumers and number four is that you
get long-term support for the product that is in essence backed by a very
large company with a vested interest in keeping each and every customer happy I
mean an example of this is something like a laptop if like e machines uh
doesn't invest the R&D to keep giving you graphics card driver updates for
your budget desktop it's okay because ultimately it's an NVIDIA graphics card
and they're going to support it in the long term anyway but what about the bad
stuff when it causes confusion because there are so many options a customer
doesn't know what to buy I see that as potentially harmful but many others
would argue that more competition is always better so that ties into one of
the positive points number two is when a Rebrand ends up being slightly different
in a way that's not very well documented in this case ad data didn't do a
particularly good job of calling out that their 128 gig and 256 gig models
don't perform as well as the higher capacity ones or the crucial m550
equivalents at that capacity review sites have performance numbers for each
capacity broken down but adata site only
lists the one tbte drive this difference in performance is honestly something
that the average person wouldn't notice without benchmarking the drive and it's
due to the use of fewer higher density flash chips instead of more lower
density chips and it saves a bit of cost but also reduces the drive sequential
right and read speeds so I see it as something that should have been called
out very very clearly but the bottom line is should you buy the sp920 and the
conclusion comes down to this power loss protection and class leading encryption
support make this drive a super safe place to put your data and the sp920
while not the best performing drive on the market is extremely price
competitive compared directly with its twin brother the m550 ad data delivers
the same 7mm to 9mm adapter and three-year warranty but throws in a
cronis migration software there's a key on the back of the drive and a 2 and 1
half in to 3 and 1/2 in adapter something that crucial doesn't even
offer in a kit anymore so two thumbs up for those things guys like and share
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