Features:

  • New generation 3D NAND technology
  • R/W up to 560/520 MB/s
  • Dynamic SLC Caching and DRAM Cache Buffer for optimized performance
  • RAID Engine & Data Shaping for ultimate protection
  • 3 Year Warranty
ADATA SU800 512GB SSD

So far so good, no issues to report about. I used this to bring some fresh life into my older PC, replaced the HDD & it's much faster now even when connected to an older SATA II Motherboard. The Acronis cloning software that's included (downloaded form website) after registering product also works great! Had no issues at all cloning HDD to this SSD.

Super easy install, very fast, very quiet, fantastic price (2TB version)

I installed this in a Dell Precision M6500 that had a 2TB Samsung drive in it. The M6500 has space for two 2.5 inch HDDs, so I left the Samsung in bay 0 and installed the SU800 2TB in bay 1. I used Reflect disk cloning software from Macrium to clone the Samsung to the SU800 (I highly recommend this software). I own a licensed copy, but there is a free personal version that will work just fine for this. After cloning I went into the M6500's BIOS and swapped the boot order so that it would boot from drive 1 first, then drive 0 (if drive 1 failed). It then booted right up off the SU800, about 8X faster than from the Samsung. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 on an i7 X940 @ 2.13GHz HT (8 cores) with 32GB RAM and an NVIDIA 5000. My Windows Experience Index was always 5.6 because of the HDD (out of 7.5 max). Now with the SU800 as the primary HDD, the Index is 7.2 and the HDD maxes out at 7.5. I have not performed speed tests but everything disk I/O related is far faster than before, it's really amazing. And this is a drive in a machine that is 6+ years old, with over 1TB of data and just over 12M files. One comment, if you use Reflect you can set it up to auto clone daily to a backup drive. I left the original Samsung 2TB drive in bay 0, and now I am cloning the SU800 to the Samsung every night as an automatic process. It runs a smart sector copy that only copies changes, so the clone process is very fast. But in this way, should the SU800 fail the system will still boot and run from the original Samsung. Because no matter now far SSDs have come, I am still somewhat skeptical as to long-term reliability. If you switch to an SSD as your primary (which I highly recommend), install cloning software and clone/backup your SSD to a conventional drive! Few final comments.. this thing is dead quiet (obviously) and pulls only a fraction of the current as the Samsung. Overall, I am very pleased with this purchase.

Excellent SSD for use as a Steam library!

I waited quite a long time before I purchased a higher capacity SSD for my Steam library. I would normally use the cheaper Solid State Hybrid Drives but their performance versus a true SSD is pathetic. After moving my Steam library over to this 2TB SSD, I can honestly attest to the change in my gaming experience. Load times are down by nearly half and loading individual parts of a level (let's take Fallout 4 as an example) is much improved. The most important feature of an SSD though is the fact it has no moving parts and you won't be replacing it after a mere 3 years. Unless you deliberately abuse the drive it will last for years and years. I was replacing my old HDDs every 2-3 years so hopefully my investment in this quality SSD will allow me to have a storage device for the usable life of my PC rather than just a few years. I would still recommend having an old school HDD just to dump games onto that you have beaten and are done playing (just in case you want to revisit them later). This will allow you to make room on your SSD for new games but you won't have to re-download 60GBs of data just to play your old games again.

Runs Linux Mint Mate Without Issues

Received 07/02/18. Old drive in Linux computer was running up errors with SMART test, a lot of errors, and seem time to replace it. I did a hardware clone from old drive onto ADATA SU800 256GB SSD Drive and installed into computer which booted up right up. I run a popular multimedia server software that's on 24-7 and so far no errors are reported on any SMART test I've run. Of course only time will tell on 'how long will it last test'. So far so good, drive is quick to BOOT and runs Linux multimedia server software without issues and that's good enough for me. Low price was a plus :) 09/10/18 almost two months in and still no errors and no reboot issues. Just updated Linux Mint Kernel to latest without a problem. Added updated screenshot of Smart-Data.

SU800 in RAID-10 - 1,551 MB/s read and will they really last 228 years?

I've bought 16 of these recently for some test servers we have here. It looks like our setup is a bit different than most. We have small HP ML30 servers with 20GB memory, running Windows 2016 and SQL Server 2016 and we put four SU800-512GB on each server in a RAID-10 configuration. As you can see by the attached tests, we get average read speeds of 1551 MB/s from the latest Passmark tests. We use these to stress test our company's products (our company makes back office software) and we've been keeping them at 90%+ for weeks on end and they've been holding up well. We have had one failure, but I think it was because a drive was improperly seated in its IcyDock. We were attracted to these because of their TBW (total bytes written) spec of 400, but now I see that ADATA makes a SU900 model that has a rating of 800, so next time we get some, we may spend the extra few $ and get those instead. The 400 rating is about the best of any drive in its class as far as I can tell, and with the way we "test" the drives, we tend to wear them out well before the normal 228 years that they are supposed to last :-). BTW: Who really thinks that they will be wanting to use their same drive 228 years (2 million hours) from now?

You get what you pay for.

Ok, I'm upping my score. I got a bad read-sector on one ADATA drive I got last year. Got another one a couple months ago and it's been perfect, w/ 500MB+ read/write rates every time. Rates on other one were the same, but some benchmarks dipped under 500MB (oh no! ) I've now had TWO OCZ (one Radeon 7) and another Toshiba brand. One Toshiba has failed (it was DOA essentially, kept cutting off every 10-20 seconds), the other Radeon 7 OCZ before Toshiba bought them died to the point the OS wouldn't boot. And my Adata didn't fail totally, it had a sector or two fail, which happened to be holding system files, but I RMA'ed and they gave me the same drive back (I had marked the sectors bad, so after I did that and reformatted, it didn't reproduce, so I think they just gave me my old drive back (had a distinct scuff mark that was there when I sent it in which was still there), which I didn't really appreciate. If a sector fails, I want a new drive, even if it's just one or two. Fast turn-around and I think they paid the shipping - I work in IT so it's hard to keep track of everything - and I'm getting older and my memories not as good as it was ;) I also have a Samsung Evo 850 1TB. This drive is just as fast as both of them. Solid 450-500MB read/write rates. Get this before it sells out and don't believe the 3d hype, this 2d holds up, minus ~50mb/sec or so - which isn't even consistent, it sometimes benches just as fast as the Evo 850. Don't waste the extra 100 dollars, though I will say, it's the only brand, along w/ Kingston, that has never failed on me. Great drive over all.

Excellent upgrade for old PC - but see included tips to save headaches

I bought this SSD drive along with RAM Crucial 4GB Kit (2GBx2) DDR3-1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) Non-ECC UDIMM 240-Pin Desktop Memory CT2KIT25664BA160B / CT2CP25664BA160B to breathe new life into an old Dell Inspiron 570 PC. Historically, I have been somewhat of a brand snob for storage WD Black & Hitachi Deskstar for HDD’s and Samsung EVO/EVO Pro for SSD’s. But was looking for an economical and practical upgrade for a secondary system for web surfing, email, and online shopping. I had not heard of the ADATA brand before but after reading the great reviews on ADATA, I decided to give it a chance. So far I am extremely pleased with my purchase. The Pros: • Much less expensive than the Samsung 850 EVO - 120GB • Massive boot speed improvement over HDD alone • Super fast and free shipping with Prime The Cons: • Drive is fine for OS install – but need to keep files and other large programs and data on a second drive (looking at you MS Office and Overwatch) • Warranty is 3yr versus 5yr/75TB for Evo Pro tips: • You may need to buy a HDD to SSD mounting kit like the Icy Dock ICY DOCK 2.5" to 3.5" SAS / SATA HDD & SSD Converter / Mount / Kit / Adapter - EZConvert MB882SP-1S-2B • If you have a SFF (small form factor PC or laptop) and/or are transferring an entire existing boot drive to a new SSD - buy a USB 3.0 to SSD SATA cable – it’s probably the best $8 you’ll ever spend for computer hardware Sata Cable - Lumsing USB 3.0 to SSD / 2.5-Inch SATA cable Hard Drive Adapter [Optimized For SSD, Support UASP SATA III] • There are multiple freeware apps to help with system transfer. However, I had to shrink my C partition to the same size of the new SSD in order for the copy program that I selected (EaseUS Disk Copy) to work • Caution! You may run into “unmovable blocks” that prevent shrinking your primary drive to 128GB. You will need to turn off hibernation mode and/or reduce virtual memory size to zero in order to complete the shrink. Took me a couple hours to figure that out – hope to save you some time and aggravation.

Great SATA SSD at a good price.

Cheaper than other brands, but tested to be equal or better than brands costing more. Working fine in my PC. My PC came with a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 250GB SSD (Windows boot drive), a 3TB Toshiba 7200rmp HD with 32 GB of Intel Optane Memory accelerator and I wanted a fast SSD for storing video files. I compared the different brands of SATA SSD drives and found that ADATA scored well in tests. So why pay more if you don't get more? I've been putting video files on this drive and it is a big improvement from using regular 7200 rpm drives. However the speed of read/write to the Toshiba drive with the Optane memory is impressive as well, but SSD is the future of storage. ADATA SSD has a lifetime warranty.

Blazing fast SSD

Just purchased and installed this on my Laptop. Must say it is AMAZING the spped difference when booting on opening a program(s). I ran a few different speed tests, both read & write and i was getting a read speed of 500+ and write speeds of almost 400. See the attached screen shot. I would definately recommend this SSD. I did a lot of research and the reviews/performance for this SSD were good, for my purposes anyway. FYI-I tried to use the ACRONIS program to clone with old HDD, but it was very confusing. Had to register and download ????? to make it work. I am computer savy and it confused me. I used the Macrim Reflect program another verified purchaser suggested and it was a few clicks, install the new SSD and everything worked as it should.

Among the best bang for your buck in entry level SSDs

ADATA has a good SSD here. I always advocate for the abandoning of standard hard drives in any PC as they are superior in every way except for dollar:gigabyte value. That’s why ADATA’s SSD is such a good buy. I replaced a laptop hard drive which was absurdly slow with this SSD. I went from seating the hard drive to fully installing Windows 10 in about 20 minutes. That’s mind-bending fast when I think about the 1 hour install time I had to deal with previously. SSDs dramatically improve the reading and writing of information to the storage device. Instead of a spinning disk which only spins so fast you get the same technology used in RAM as your long term storage tech. Everything about this drive has met expectations. The only ding I can give it is while it’s very affordable, it’s also not exceeding any performance expectations for those that might be on the hunt for a super performer as a system drive. It writes way faster than a standard hard drive but there are drives that write/l and read faster than this drive does and are expected to last 3-4x as long. If you are like me and just wanted a budget friendly SSD to put some new life into your PC, ADATA has perhaps the best bang for your buck in the 128GB range. I didn’t opt for the value-friendly 256GB version because I don’t plan on storing much data in my laptop. If that’s something that you might need (more space), look at he higher capacity options. Otherwise this is a great buy and unless it fails me (it’s running great after 48 hours of almost always being on) I’m very happy with this SSD!

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