ADATA Premier Pro SP900 128GB Solid State Drive Review

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.

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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.

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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!

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