ADATA SSD 240GB 2.5 SATA SU630 - ASU630SS-240GQ-R, Internal SSD Storage

I bought this to revive an old HP Laptop with a Core 2 Duo and 4GB RAM. Yes, this laptop is about 10 years old. The original hard drive was dead, so I picked this up as a quick replacement. To my surprise, this drive has exceeded expectations over the last few weeks. It also allows us to run Windows 10 home on this laptop with no issues. Honestly, the value proposition for this drive is immense. You arent going to get the fastest read/write speeds, but for the price, it does the job where needed.

Pros: reasonably inexpensive and a good value. Cons: Not as fast as others I purchased this drive to replace an ailing mechanical hard drive on a older system. It is easy to install but it came with no screws or mounting hardware. You really cannot expect that for what you are paying. The install went rather smoothly and all the software loaded up fine. I was expecting a much faster response from an SSD but as this is an economy drive you realistically can’t expect that for the price. This is a drive only packaging and it is no frills. As I said earlier I expected it to be a little faster than it was but it is still much faster than a mechanical hard drive.

Like the headline says, it arrived bent! Why? Because: 1. Shoddy construction consisted of a bottom thin metal shell and a plastic top shell, which makes it much less sturdy when compared to other SSDs out on the market. 2. Blister packaging. Again, plastic to protect electronic components isnt exactly the best practice out there. I tested the drive in an external enclosure and it did boot up, but the risk of sudden failure wasnt worth the hassle of keeping it and wondering when it would suddenly die WITH YOUR PRECIOUS DATA. Fortunately, Amazon took it back easily. This is not worth it, especially considering the other problems with DRAMless SSDs and endurance issues with QLC nand.

Bought it because I thought it was a good deal at the time. Didnt test it on arrival which was my mistake, because now that I need it a couple months later, I find out its dead.

Not much to it. SSD prices are dropping. Bought this to be my main CPU hard drive and will switch my storage to SSD pretty soon. Boots up fast and everything

Excelent..great quality and performance.

super fast easy to install

Very reasonably priced. Used to upgrade an old PC. Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro and it goes from post to password in about 30 seconds.

For the low price I paid for this drive the speeds are great for basic laptop or desktop use, obviously much better then using a traditional hard drive. Even the smallest size of this drive is very fast. The endurance is lower then other drives you can buy but shouldnt be a problem for normal laptop or desktop use just to browse the web / edit documents and other basic tasks for a couple years till you are going to replace the computer in question anyways. This is one of the first QLC drives on the market. QLC stores 4 bits per cell versus previous TLC (3 bits per cell) , and MLC (2 bits per cell). Because of the difficulty from storing more bits per cell the amount of times it can reuse / rewrite over each area is decreased vs TLC / MLC, but modern solid state drives do a good job of leveling the wear across the whole drive so this shouldnt be an issue for normal use inside a laptop or a desktop for a couple of years, but this drive should not be used in a server nor in any situation where the whole drive gets frequently erased or rewritten. There is a good short news article on anandtech about this specific drive that mentioned that it uses NAND from Intel which should be very high quality because Intel is already using their QLC NAND in drives it is selling to large enterprise customers. The drive uses a Maxio controller with pseudo-SLC caching which seemed to work well as the drive met its quoted write specs. I purchased the 240gb drive which is the smallest size because i am only using this in a work laptop. Even though the 240gb version is the smallest size it is still very fast and as fast as the larger sizes. The drive did not warm up at all when running crystal diskmark for a few minutes. As you can see from the attached picture of the cystal diskmark results it read at 560MB/s and wrote at 478MB/s which is slightly faster read then in the specs, and almost as fast as sata3-600MB/s allows. I ran crystal diskmark an hour after installing windows 10, so the drive may have had time to fully refresh the cache.

Just installed in a 10 year old HP desktop that was starting to get laggy and boggy. I would have to double click on just about everything to get it to do anything and it was slow to load everything. The Adata is installed as my boot drive and only holds the Windows 10 OS. I retained my old hard drive for storage. I noticed an instant improvement, PC works like new again. Cant believe such a cheap upgrade made such a difference. I thought it might decrease my boot time which it did but I wasnt expecting a speed improvement everywhere. No more double clicking while surfing the web! Bare bones drive so youll have to provide your own cable and mounting hardware and its probably not the fastest or most durable drive but for the money you cant beat the value.