A-Data 2.5 inch SP610 Premier Series SATA600

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 6 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

1
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Price, Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very strong read performance, 3year warranty, Comes with a free copy of Acronis True Image HD
Charttopping sequential read speeds, Supports TRIM, NCQ, S.M.A.R.T, and robust ECC, 3Year product warranty support, Offered in 128/256/512/1024GB storage capacities, Lightweight compact storage solution, Resistant to extreme shock impact, Free copy of Ac...
Performance, accessories, price

Cons:

Slower read speeds, Speeds decrease as you go down in capacity
Sequential write and IOPS performance not as impressive, Doesn't stand out from competitive products, Better performing ADATA drives available for the same price

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Last revision on December 29, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Price, Available in capacities up to 1TB, Very strong read performance, 3year warranty, Comes with a free copy of Acronis True Image HD
Charttopping sequential read speeds, Supports TRIM, NCQ, S.M.A.R.T, and robust ECC, 3Year product warranty support, Offered in 128/256/512/1024GB storage capacities, Lightweight compact storage solution, Resistant to extreme shock impact, Free copy of Ac
Performance, accessories, price

Reviewers Didn't Like

Slower read speeds, Speeds decrease as you go down in capacity
Sequential write and IOPS performance not as impressive, Doesn't stand out from competitive products, Better performing ADATA drives available for the same price

Expert reviews and ratings

The Silicon Motion SM2246EN has proved to be a good controller as we saw on the Crucial BX100 and the Mushkin Reactor. In ADATA's Premier SP610 we saw scores of 557 MB/s read and 300 MB/s write. Which are not bad at all, certainly better than a typical...

By ThinkComputers on August 11, 2015

The ADATA Premier SP610 256GB SSD turned in some excellent read performance results– in a couple of cases, such as the PCMark Vantage combined score– the highest we've seen. However, most consumer SSDs these days are bumping up against the bandwidth...

By Benchmark Reviews on May 24, 2015

Relatively cheap, but still...

By PCPowerPlay AU on February 19, 2015

ADATA Premier SP610 512GB SSD is a very good drive which comes at a good price and performance. PROsCONs - performance- accessories- price - EvaluationAspect and build8.58.72Performance8.5Power...

By reviewstudio.net on September 18, 2014

In most cases, the ADATA Premier SP610 meets or exceeds the manufacturer's performance claims. The drive proved to be very stable and flew through our benchmarks with out any issues. The Silicon Motion controllers are probably best known for their...

By overclockers.com on June 23, 2015

Note: this review is by a Geekzone user (maoriboy) selected randomly to receive an ADATA SP610 SSD. Having never had an SSD in a computer of mine I was not sure what to expect. Is it really as fast as people say? Does it really make that big a...

By GeekZone on November 11, 2014

Solid-State Drive (SSD) have been steadily growing in capacity and thanks to improvements to the manufacturing processes the price of NAND and SSD controllers has been falling at an impressive rate. This means that fairly large SSDs are now fairly...

By Legit Reviews on July 17, 2014

ADATA SP610 1 TB SSD is viable choice for people who needs fast performance as well as looking for high capacity drive. Considering the capacity, this drive comes at competitive price and performed better than drives we received till date.Add a high...

By pcquest.com on June 03, 2015

Im Test erzielt die Adata Premier SP610 512GB mit 513 MByte pro Sekunde starke Ergebnisse beim Lesen, bei Schreibvorgängen sind es immerhin noch 494 MByte / s. Dazu kommen gute IOPS-Werte und ein sehr niedriger Stromverbrauch. Damit eignet sich die SSD...

By Chip.de on September 18, 2014