With the S511, ADATA has a Solid State Drive in its portfolio which is based on the latest SandForce SF-2200 series SSD processor. The drive also features SATA-III support and ADATA claims that the drive can reach throughput rates of more than 500 MByte. Also for the IOPS the manufacturer promises sky-high numbers. When writing 4 KByte blocks the drive should be able to hit a whopoing 60'000 IOPS and more.

Specifications / Delivery

Model	ADATA S511 60 GByte
Capacity	60 GByte
Memory	ynchronous NAND Flash
Technology	SandForce SF-2281
Throughput	up to 550 MB/s reading, up to 500 MB/s writing
Accesstime (read)	< 0.1 ms
Life expectance	2'000'000 hours (MTBF)
Acoustics	no noise
Warranty	3 Years

Delivery

The package for the ADATA SSD S511 is straight forward. Bundled we find a practical adapter in order to put your SSD also into a 3.5 inch drive bay. Once available there'll also be a notebook kit with an external cradle which allows easier migration. Furhtermore ADATA teamed up with Acronics. Therefore on every box you find a certain code which can be used to download a copy of Acronis Disk Image. The software can be downloaded at the ADATA website.

Page 1 - Introduction / Specs / Delivery	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Sequential write ops
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Sequential read ops
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - Random write ops
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - Random read ops
Page 6 - Random write KByte/s	Page 12 - Conclusion

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