ADATA Legend 970 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA Legend 970 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

With this Sequential test, we could confirm the official Sequential read/write ratings for the drive of up to 10,000MB/s with a read result of 10,024MB/s with writes a little faster at 10,161MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read Performance v QD compared.

At QDs 1 & 2, the ADATA Legend 970 sits in a mid-table position, but as the queue depth deepens it slips down the results chart.

128KB Sequential Write Performance v QD compared.

The ADATA Legend 970 sits between the Seagate FireCuda 540 and Gigabyte's AORUS Gen5 10000 for all the tested queue depth results.

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