System Overview & Testing Procedures
Once we formatted the drive we can see that there is 119GB of usable space. Again this is a 0 provision drive so you get the total capacity of the drive. Normally on a SandForce-based drive that had 7% used for over provisioning you would get 111GB of usable space.
Opening up CrystalDiskInfo we can see all of the information about the drive. It supports S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ and most importantly TRIM.
For testing the drive we will be using the following benchmarking programs, we have provided links to each so you can run the benchmarks as well.
– HDTune Pro (download)
– Sandra Physical Disks Benchmark (download)
– ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
– CrystalDiskMark 64bit (download)
– AS SSD Benchmark (download)
– Anvil Storage Utility Professional (download)
We also made these optimization changes…
– No power saving options in the BIOS
– ACHI enabled in the BIOS
– Windows 7 User Account Control (UAC) is disabled
– Windows 7 power saving settings are disabled
For comparison we will be testing the ADATA Premier Pro SP900 drive against these other solid state drives.
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB (Review)
Crucial M4 256GB (Review)
Samsung 830 120GB (Review)
Patriot Pyro SE 120GB (Review)
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G (Review)
Kingston HyperX 240GB (Review)
Patriot Wildfire 120GB (Review)
Corsair Force GT 120GB (Review)
OCZ Agility 3 240GB (Review)
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB (Review)
Now let’s get to testing!
RIDICULOUS lasted 20 hours and died
This drive is junk 11-20% FAILURE RATE RIGHT OUT OF THE bOX
Also Adata make YOU pay Shipping for the RMA !
and then I got back a refurbished unit with the tamper seal broken
now my 3 year warranty is void
Customer service line is a recording I call and leave name and number 3 times and never get a call back
Check amazon and newegg these Adata Clowns have to be aware these drives die right out of the box Look at all the 11-20% bad reviews about it dieing right away YEt they do nothing except mess over their customers void their warranty and send them a refurbished unit that the customer pays shipping RIDICULOUS
NEVER BUY ADATA PRODUCTs
Absolutely, this drive is a joke. My second sp900 Died after 1 month of NORMAL usage. I had to return the first one, because it was very slow. I was absolutely sure that the chips are fake. The retailer didn’t believe me however. They replaced it with another sp900 with 5.0.7a firmware with signature not even present at the manufacturers list. To prove my theory (that the drive is not even close with the ones from reviews) I had to open it. The board circuit inside had nothing to do with the ones reviewed. I’m absolutely sure that A-DATA did a marketing trick with passing some good ones for reviews and flooding the marked after that with crappy ones that not even use micron chips! Stay away from that junk!