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ADATA XPG SX930 SSD: Will gamers bite the bait?

By Kenny Yeo - 15 Aug 2015
Launch SRP: S$159

Results - CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 Results

CrystalDiskMark is an easy-to-run and quick utility to use to gauge a drive’s performance. It measures sequential read and write performance and random read and write speeds of random 4KB, 4KB (queue depth 32) and 512KB data. The ADATA XPG SX930’s sequential read and write speeds were quite encouraging as read speeds were high while write speeds were respectable, considering it uses 128Gbit NAND. Its sequential write speed of 453.6MB/s marked a 25% improvement over the older ADATA Premier Pro SP920SS. But moving on to the other test scenarios, performance started to dip. On the 512K, 4K and 4K with 32 queue depth scenarios, read speeds were surprisingly poor. On the intensive 4K with 32 queue depth workload for example, the XPG SX930’s read speeds were only 277.7MB/s, a whopping 30% lesser than the Premier Pro SP920SS. Its write speeds were nothing to shout about either, except that on the 512K workload, it racked up the highest write speed of 448.6MB/s, but that was only 3% more than the second-placed Plextor M6S.

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7.0
  • Performance 6.5
  • Features 8.5
  • Value 7
The Good
5-year long warranty
Comes with 3.5-inch HDD adapter & cloning utility
ADATA SSD Toolbox makes it easy to upgrade firmware and monitor drive
The Bad
Overall performance is disappointing
Read performance falls with increasing queue depth
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