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ADATA S511 240GB SSD Review (Sandforce 2281)

We use Futuremark’s PCMark Vantage in many of our system reviews and we felt that it was worth an inclusion in this review. It is still a synthetic suite, but it uses many real world characteristics to try and judge overall performance levels. We are using the 64 bit version of the HDD Suite for this testing. We also compare against a Samsung F1 1TB drive on this page.

A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security. From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.

The ADATA and OCZ drives are closely matched in this benchmark, with our three highlighted results all favouring the ADATA drive. Other results in the images attached show the performance swinging a little in favour of the OCZ drive. Video editing and adding music to Windows Media Player both score better on the Vertex 3. This would indicate that both companies have tuned the drives in a slightly different way.

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13 comments

  1. Excellent, these guys seem to be on the ball.

  2. A 60gb version is coming? Count me in for a couple of those puppies

  3. This controller is the future of ssd in the next year or two. Amazing speeds…

  4. Price is good. How much will the 60gb version be?

  5. Based on pricing of 240gb. I would say 60gb will be around 110 to 120 pounds

  6. The 60GB appeals to me, ill probably get 4 for QUAD Raid 0 performance. Should only be around £500. much better than a single 240GB drive. Any chance of a test Zardon of this setup?

  7. ADATA seem to be bringing more cool stuff out lately. I dont often see them on stores I use however, which is concerning.

  8. What are the warranty terms on their SSDs? in UK, and also how do we return them if they fail. to their HQ or to the dealer we bought from? I got burned on Patriot before. moer info would help

  9. Im still not convinced to just jump in with ADATA, but they are on my radar now, they weren’t a few months ago. This drive looks really good, I also like their tweaks on this drive, it looks like they put a lot of effort into the tuning

  10. Very good drive, aggressive pricing too.

  11. The 240gb is very nice, but its a hell of a lot of money for a drive. 120gb is more sensible, but I can see them selling a ton of 60gb units.

    erm.. why aren’t OCZ selling anything smaller than 120gb? whats up with that?

  12. very nice indeed, shame it cant be bought anywhere yet. 60GB might be a good boot option

  13. They certainly have the pricing right, never heard of the company however !