SSD by stefan @ 2015-06-10
The new revision of the ADATA Premier SP600 SSD is incorporating one of the newer Jmicron JMF670H controller, which is accompanied by one Nanya NT5CB64M16FP-DH as buffer and also eight ADATA-branded MLC NAND Flash memory chips. Premier SP600 is meant for the entry to mainstream market and while the product succeeds to deliver good read speeds, it fails to impress in the writes department.
At first we would like to thank ADATA for supplying a sample of their Premier SP600 128GB SSD for testing and reviewing.
„The World's Leading Memory Brand
Founded in May 2001, ADATA Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to providing top-notch memory solutions that enrich the customer’s digital life. The company’s dedication to integrity and professionalism has made ADATA the leading memory brand with the most award-winning product designs.
Backed by technical expertise, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, and premium customer service, ADATA offers complete memory solutions including DRAM modules, USB flash drives, memory cards, solid state drives and portable hard drives.
ADATA understands that professionalism and innovation, as well as the value of its products and services, drive a company’s competitiveness in the market. ADATA’s devotion to quality requires performing at the highest standards as they relate to ID design, purchasing and supply-chain management (raw materials), manufacturing processes, quality control and testing. Through constant innovation and development of products that exceed customer expectations, ADATA has won many of the most recognized international awards including the National Silver Award of Excellence in Taiwan, Japan’s G-MARK (Good Design Award), CES Innovations Award in the U.S., the iF Design award, and the red dot design award in Germany.
A Young Enterprise with Remarkable Growth
Starting in 2001 with only 20 employees, ADATA was from the very beginning a small company with big dreams. The company’s commitment to becoming a worldwide leader in providing DRAM memory and Flash application products led to ADATA distinguishing itself from the competition by its commitment to professionalism, industry know-how and eye-catching product designs.
Under the leadership of founder Simon Chen and the senior management team, all who have extensive memory-related industry experience in manufacturing and global sales, ADATA operates with passion and energy, governed by extraordinary corporate values that serve as the foundation for the company’s success. These values include integrity, fairness, honesty, perseverance, ingenuity, harmony, love and innovation. All these factors help contribute to remarkable and consistent year-on-year revenue and profit growth, thus driving ADATA to achieve $1 billion in sales turnover within its first ten years.
Perfection through Non-stop Improvement
Despite these impressive achievements, ADATA’s management team is determined to outperform itself. In 2010, ADATA began the process of rebuilding its brand, adopting the hummingbird as its corporate icon and an auxiliary symbol of ADATA’s corporate culture in order to effectively enhance its competitiveness in the international marketplace, as well as to prepare the company for the next decade.
The new logo conveys a more modern design that represents consistency, while retaining the foundation of ADATA’s technical background with the traditional corporate color in blue. The hummingbird incorporates key design elements that reflect ADATA’s culture, vision for the future and their commitment to becoming a global brand. The hummingbird’s agility suggests that ADATA is highly responsive to market and consumer demands; its swiftness demonstrates leading innovation and productivity in the industry; its exploring nature signifies ADATA’s determination to pursue all possibilities; the color and modern design reflect the exciting and dynamic characteristics of the ADATA brand.
Strong Commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
Realizing the need for social responsibility, ADATA takes extra care in the selection of key memory components, complying with stringent manufacturing specifications and quality inspection processes. ADATA has received ISO14001 certification on environmental management and the EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. These measures demonstrate ADATA’s dedication to providing the safest, most efficient, stable and compatible high-performance memory products. The company’s steadfastness to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is crucial at a time when ADATA is pursuing rapid growth, thus placing equal emphasis on both protecting our earth and remaining a green enterprise.”
Delivering You Into the New World of Solid State Drives
Premier SP600 Solid State Drive offers continuous read and write speeds of up to 550 and 430 MB per second, with 4KB random read/writes up to 76,000/73,000 IOPS. Capacities of 32, 64, 128, 256GB and 512GB, combined with increased durability, reliability, and quietness over traditional hard disks, all mean better performance than ever for your system.
Reasons to Make the Switch to SSD
With the increasing popularity of computing with the use of more diverse applications, computational speed has become a major consideration when buying computers. In video editing, large picture retouching, and computer drafting, reading and writing operations rely on fast and stable data storage.
The SP600 adopts specially selected Flash chips from reliable manufacturers, and supports the Windows TRIM command. In both desktop and notebook computers, users will enjoy an unprecedented high-speed experience. In addition to these benefits, the SP600 offers low power consumption, low heat generation, and shock resistance.
Laptop Disk Bay Spacer for Solid State Drives
The SP600 Solid State Drive comes in a thickness of 7mm to meet the needs of ultra-slim notebook computers. A 2.5 mm spacer is provided for use in 9.5mm disk bays.
Peace of Mind with a Three-Year Warranty
With premium flash memory inside, the SP600 comes with a 3-year warranty, giving you the benefit of high speed and the best protection at the same time.
In this review we will concentrate upon one of the more cost-effective SSD models from ADATA, and to be more exact, the Premier SP600 model; this drive is shipped inside a small cardboard enclosure, which shows on the frontal area some of the main product characteristics. Here we will also learn that the Acronis True Image HD is offered as a free download for added value, but also we have the benefit of receiving a total of 3 years of warranty:
On the back side of the enclosure, the manufacturer has placed a short product description, in multiple languages:
Here we will be also able to spot a table which shows the rated SSD speeds depending on the capacity:
After removing the top packaging layer, we will get to find the SSD along with its bundle:
The bundle comprises of the Quick Start Guide, which shows the hardware and software installation procedure to us:
Also, we will get an adapter:
This plastic frame is meant to act as a spacer and increase the drive thickness from 7mm to 9.5mm when needed:
On the top area of the SP600 chassis, we will get to see a shiny sticker which shows the product name, supported interface and total storage capacity:
On the back side of the drive we will get to see the second sticker with the product code name, warranty code, WWN code and more:
Here we will also spot with ease the SATA Data and Power connectors:
On the left side, one of the SSD chassis screws is covered by a warranty sticker:
Let’s open up this thing and see what we have inside!
As we have seen with the Corsair Force LX SSD, the PCB of this model is also half-size; on one of the sides we will get to see four ADATA-rebranded MLC NAND Flash Memory chips:
The opposite side holds four additional MLC NAND but here we will be also able to spot the controller along with the cache memory:
The SSD is driven by the Jmicron JMF670H controller, which is a four-channel component in the low-cost mainstream category which is meant to go head-to-head with the SM2246EN Silicon Motion models.
The single Nanya NT5CB64M16FP-DH memory chip acts as buffer and as specifications it is rated DDR3-1600MHz:
CPU : Intel I5 3750K Retail
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme6
RAM :GeIL PC3-17000 2133MHz 8GB EVO Leggera
Video : Sparkle X560 Calibre
Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W
HDD : OCZ Vector 150
Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840
The drive is shipped unformatted:
Here is the total free space reported by Windows 7:
With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:
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The new revision of the ADATA Premier SP600 SSD is incorporating one of the newer Jmicron JMF670H controller, which is accompanied by one Nanya NT5CB64M16FP-DH as buffer and also eight ADATA-branded MLC NAND Flash memory chips. Premier SP600 is meant for the entry to mainstream market and while the product succeeds to deliver good read speeds, it fails to impress in the writes department.
As you have probably seen from the performed benchmarks, the drive seems to get quite a performance hit after it gets filled with data, but this is to be expected from SSD products which are located in its price range (about 60 Euros).
We can add to the plusses the 3-year warranty program ADATA is offering for this specific product, but also the Acronis True Image HD Disk Migration Utility program, which is available for download on the manufacturer web page. While the SSD features a slim 7mm design in order to fit the latest ultrabooks, ADATA has also included for free one 2.5mm adapter for compatibilty purposes.
We would like to thank ADATA making this review possible!