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  • SaolDan - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Neat!!!
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Overall a worse deal than the MX300, which itself took quite some criticism. Could you elaborate on what's "neat" about this?
  • vladx - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Price is low for decent performance. This is SATA SSD targeted towards low end and mainstream market.
  • Great_Scott - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    The MX300 is better value given the drive sizes. I'm still trying to find a replacement for the Mushkin Reactor for desktops, but the Crucial drive is my go-to for laptops currently.
  • Arbie - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Why do you guys continually fail to mention the Mushkin Reactor 1TB MLC drive ($240 at Newegg) in your SSD comparisons? It's cheaper, faster, and probably has greater endurance.

    You reviewed it two years ago but have hardly mentioned it since then. It seems to be a "best buy" still.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/8949/mushkin-reactor...

    But... kudos on the clickbait. You have at least as much as any other site, and of the lowest degree.
  • vladx - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Because Mushkin already refreshed their SSD line and the old Reactor is not manufactured anymore which means it will be gone any week now.
  • Great_Scott - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    And we will all be sad to see it go. I have a bunch of those drives, myself.
  • Flunk - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    They don't often put 2 year old drives in comparisons.
  • Great_Scott - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    That's too bad, as some context would be useful, especially considering that many people own that drive, and until recently it was still being made.

    Then again, a two-year-old budget drive with a very similar controller would have made the SU800 series look terrible, and we can't have that.
  • eek2121 - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    The Mushkin Reactor is a drastically slower drive, costs about the same, and will soon disappear from retailers. It is not a competitor.
  • Arbie - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    @eek2121: Anandtech has changed most of its drive tests in the past two years, but it's easy to compare the Mushkin Reactor to this Adata in IOMeter 4KB random reads & writes. In these, the Mushkin is 50% faster. So please provide your basis for saying it's "drastically slower". While it may "soon disappear", that's been true for the past 18 months and it's still there, at $240. And FYI "clickbait" is the swathe of pandering pix labeled "From the Web". Anandtech provides these to raise its status as a on-line source of repute and save us the trouble of looking for garbage on our own.
  • Billy Tallis - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    The Mushkin Reactor was one of the last drives tested with our 2013 test suite. Even though we used IOmeter back then, the test protocol was different. The 4kB random access numbers reported in that review were for QD3 using an 8GB test file, while our current 2015 test suite uses a 16GB file for random writes and the whole drive for random reads, and the score reported is the average of QD1, QD2, and QD4 performance. If the numbers were directly comparable, we'd be directly comparing them.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, February 9, 2017 - link

    "drastically"

    A few thousand IOPS is "drastically" now eh? For this market, they would never notice the difference.
  • eek2121 - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    What is so click-baity about this? It's a review. Did you bother reading it? They came to the same conclusion you did. It's not that great. The Mushkin Reactor has been discontinued, why would they include it?
  • lopri - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    That drive is not faster than what is benched. MLC does not automatically make a good SSD.

    Having said that, I do sometimes think AT neglect hardware of the past in their review, which is regrettable. Consumers not only compare current products but also upgrade their old gears, and they want to see if it is a worthy undertaking.
  • fanofanand - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Some might say I am being greedy or unrealistic, but I think that when SSD's hit 1TB for under $100, then we will finally be able to put the axe in mechanical hard drives with the exception of the 10+ TB drives for archiving or media libraries. If I could pick up a 2TB for under $200 I would buy it today. We are so close, yet so far.
  • Great_Scott - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    1TB drives were around $200 6 months ago.

    Most people seem to have around 3TB of data, not including any bloated Steam libraries, $600 over the course of a year (late 2015 to late 2016) seems reasonable, it's what I did.

    Of course, the recent price increase probably blindsided most people, but if it was made a priority many enthusiasts don't need to be using spinning rust pretty much regardless of non-archive non-media (bulk) data.

    But I keep seeing posts like yours. Does everyone want to only use 1 SSD in thier PC for some reason?
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    You have to not include blu ray disc image libraries either. I have a 6 bay NAS with 6x 4TB in raid 5 giving me 20TB of space 10TB of that is gone from 200 blu ray disc images and another 5TB from FLAC audio. When I have to upgrade all my disc images to 4k blu ray disc images they double in size + i will have more fo them. I will have to rebuild my nas with 6x 12TB drives at that point. So plenty of enthusiasts will still need spinning rust. For my next PC tho I plan on using a 128-256GB optane drive for the OS and most used productivity apps and VLC media player and chrome and my favorite couple games. A 1TB nvme drive for the majority of my most played games and 2x 2TB SATA 3 2.5" SSD's that my torrents will download onto and seed for awhile before being moved to the NAS or installed on a faster drive or deleted.
  • The_Assimilator - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    "Does everyone want to only use 1 SSD in thier PC for some reason?"

    Why use a whole bunch of drives if you can only use 1? Saves on cable clutter, physical space (important for the rise in SFF systems) and just makes things simpler overall. Personally I can't wait for 4TB SSDs to become mainstream in price so that I can replace my mechanical disk.
  • JimmiG - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    I have about 1.2 TB of SSD storage spread over 240 GB, 480 GB and 500 GB SSD's, bought in the last couple of years. 1.2 TB in a single drive would be much more convenient since you wouldn't have to juggle your game installations and other files to keep the amount of free space on each SSD reasonable and balanced.

    After I got a NAS, I only have an old 1 TB HDD (in addition to the SSDs) in my PC for general data storage and less frequently used applications and games. I don't think "spinning rust" is going anywhere, but I think the smaller capacities (<3TB) are going away. People want them for bulk storage in NAS devices or as external USB drives.
  • RamIt - Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - link

    Why is there no comparison to the Intel 600p recently reviewed?
  • extide - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Probably because it is a PCIe drive. A shopper who is shopping for SATA drives is probably not interested in a PCIe drive.
  • dj_aris - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Sorry, but since all SATA 3 drives top at theoretical 600MBs but SSD speeds are WAY faster than that, what is the point in testing them?
  • Death666Angel - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    It might just be my eyes, but I see a lot of instances where the drives don't actually achieve the 600MB/s data cap of the SATA3 protocol....
  • dj_aris - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Indeed, but who cares if it's 600 or 500 or even 300, when you can reach 2000+ using modern pcie storage (with similiar prices). SATA is dead, obviously will not be developed anymore, SATA express drives don't even exist. I mean we don't test DVD drives or floppies, right?
  • doggface - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Sata is dead? Seriously?
    Also, similar prices?

    So many things wrong with this post.

    Sata SSDs will continue to thrive for years to come. No doubt about that, and while they do, we will need reviews on their performance to help differentiate the good from bad. Especially as the industry continues to peddle TLC and even possibly QLC drives.
  • vladx - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Upcoming QLC NAND is not something to scowl at. SSD drives using this technology will not be targeted to compete with MLC or even TLC instead they are planned for archival purposes: https://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/FMS-2015-Toshib...
  • Billy Tallis - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    SATA isn't dead, but it is a dead end in the same sense that VGA ports are.
  • extide - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Not everyone's system is compatible with and/or cannot boot from NVME drives. There is definitely still a need to have these data points.
  • lopri - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    Two of my boards refuse to accept any M.2 drive as a boot drive, leaving me no choice but to go with SATA. Plus SATA is nowhere near dead because it is still much more affordable. Plus there is no convincing argument as to why backups have to be saved in SSDs.
  • lopri - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    I kind of mixed SATA interface with mechanical hard drive in the above post. My mistake.
  • Neeson - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    I personally use 512GB SU800 now. With the SLC, the read/write performance is excellent. Especially, when I play games, SU800 NEVER slows down. ADATA SU800 can perform pretty well and the price is right. I like it. (Sharing my own experience)
  • lopri - Thursday, February 2, 2017 - link

    The drives look like a decent upgrade option for those who are on mechanical drives or earlier generation of SSDs. I like the thorough review as well as the value assessment. Nevertheless the product is a yawner for tech savvy consumers because it has really no distinguishing feature. I guess the actual market price will be the sole determining factor.
  • realbabilu - Friday, February 3, 2017 - link

    Any clue entry ssd vs sshd drives. I want to update my laptop
  • jhon1616 - Thursday, December 27, 2018 - link

    Adata Su800 512Gb TBW is 400TB if is baaed on same chips of micron that is cruicial mx300 how can be it 400TB since mx300 525gb tbw is 160tb it is very confusing or ADATA JUST CHANGED SPECS THAT IS INVALID

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