ADATA Launches SP910 2.5-Inch and SP900 M.2 SATA SSDs

[Cristian_25H]

ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today launches three new SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs - the Premier Pro SP900 M.2 2242 and 2282 for Ultrabooks and desktop PCs, and Premier Pro SP910, which is suitable for gamers and video editors. No matter the computer, users can find the best solution to upgrade and experience the optimized performance of an SSD.

The Premier Pro SP900 M.2 2422 and 2280 are the latest and smallest SSDs in the market with extremely slim designs and small dimensions (22x42 mm, 22x80 mm), which meet the M.2 standard from Intel. They are smaller than the typical 2.5" SSD and mSATA, but come with bigger capacities, including 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB. The two SSDs are not only suitable for Ultrabooks, but also for new motherboards in the next generation of PC upgrades.





With the LSI SF-2281 controller, the sequential read/write speed of SP900 M.2 2242/2280 is up to 550/530 MB/s, which greatly enhances the speed of data transfer. The SP900 M.2 2242 and 2280 also support Intel Smart Response Technology, that automatically identifies the data and applications most often used, speeding up the data transfer and providing bigger storage capacity compared to other SSDs. Additionally, SP900 M.2 2242 and 2280 support DVESLP (Device Sleep) to save power for a longer battery life.

Premier Pro SP910 - Built For Professionals, Gamers and Video Editors
Using the Marvell controller 88SS9187, the Premier Pro SP910 keeps stable performance and offers sequential read/write speeds up to 560/460 MB/s, and 4KB random read/write speeds up to 91,000/77,000 IOPS for rapid computing and data transfer. With these benefits the Premier Pro 910 is definitely an ideal solution of multi-tasks, such as executing applications and playing videos.

Thanks to the built-in ECC (Error Code Correction) technology (up to 128bits/2KB), the Premier Pro SP910 can improve the reliability of data transfer. The S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) can automatically detect drive errors in the SSD to ensure data security.

The Premier Pro SP910 includes 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB, and a massive 1 TB in capacity, meeting the needs of different users, whether playing games, running software, or using operating systems. For those who want to upgrade the computers for gaming or video editing, the SP910 is the best choice.

The SP910 has an ultra slim 7 mm thick body, which supports all slim PCs in the market. With the bundled 2.5 mm spacer and the 3.5" converter, the SP910 is compatible with 9.5 mm applications and traditional mechanical drive bays.

To give the users full support and convenience, those who purchase ADATA SSDs can download the free "SSD Toolbox" software and "Acronis True Image HD". The "SSD Toolbox" helps users to access more information about the SSD and adjust system settings for stability and a longer life expectancy. "Acronis True Image HD" helps to transfer the files to the new SSD rapidly.

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[nemesis.ie]

Why are they even bothering releasing these SATA SSDs in M.2 format? Surely anyone with M.2 on thir motherboard, even if it's "only" the 10Gbit version will want native PCIe ones and throughput more in the 750-950MB/s range? Otherwise you may as well get a standard 2.5" one.

The only use I see for these is in the mobile space and maybe they are dumping stock of the SATA-based controllers at lower price points before introducing the PCIe ones?

If that's the case they shouldn't be marketing it as "premier", "gaming", "pro", "the best choice" and trying to say it's fast though.

More marketing FUD.

 

[xBruce88x]

Why are they even bothering releasing these SATA SSDs in M.2 format? Surely anyone with M.2 on thir motherboard, even if it's "only" the 10Gbit version will want native PCIe ones and throughput more in the 750-950MB/s range? Otherwise you may as well get a standard 2.5" one.

The only use I see for these is in the mobile space and maybe they are dumping stock of the SATA-based controllers at lower price points before introducing the PCIe ones?

If that's the case they shouldn't be marketing it as "premier", "gaming", "pro", "the best choice" and trying to say it's fast though.

More marketing FUD.

maybe because 750-950MB/s is still faster than 600MB/s?

 

[nemesis.ie]

maybe because 750-950MB/s is still faster than 600MB/s?

Sorry, I don't get your point? These ones are only 550MB/s.

Which they suggest is "greatly enhanced".

It only is versus platter drives; we've had these speeds on SSDs literally for years and it's not the enhanced speed of even the slower version of the new format ...

Of course as it's a SATA 6GB/s controller it never can be faster. Very dubious marketing IMO.

BTW, I love your avatar.

 

[Aquinus]

You know, with how fast SSDs already are and how I/O has been practically eliminated as a bottleneck with them, do you really think that more bandwidth is going to make machines go that much faster? Even with RAID, you don't notice the difference unless you're copying huge files, which isn't what SSDs are good at in the first place. Neither is it what you're going to typically be doing with an SSD unless you want to kill it.

Either way, I think the difference will really be small except on benchmarks. When it comes to responsiveness, it probably won't matter.

 

[nemesis.ie]

I'd agree regarding response time, but e.g. Game level load times could be improved a lot and better storage bandwidth should be part of that equation.

It still doesn't change the fact that this is being marketed as the fastest thing going, when in fact it's still using the older technology which was my point.

 

[Aquinus]

I'd agree regarding response time, but e.g. Game level load times could be improved a lot and better storage bandwidth should be part of that equation.

It still doesn't change the fact that this is being marketed as the fastest thing going, when in fact it's still using the older technology which was my point.

That depends on how many resources need to be loaded, their sizes, and where they are on the drive in addition to how much of the time the machine is spending on actually doing I/O versus prepping said resources and the state of the application. The faster the storage becomes, the less of a bottleneck it is in the entire processes of getting a game ready to be played or an application ready to be used. So if it takes 8 seconds to load but it's only really spending 2 seconds of that time loading content from a regular SATA 6GB SSD, even if you double the I/O speed, you're only shaving 1 second off your loading time. Granted this is a highly speculative example where you could have the opposite case where the only thing that needs to be done is loading resources, in that case you shave it down from 8 to 4 seconds, but the point is, the faster you make any one process of the application, the more that the others become a bottleneck and gains from doubling any one step of that process become smaller.

Consider for a moment that storage I/O has been improving a lot faster than CPU speeds, so the more bandwidth we squeeze out of storage, the more time (as a percent of the total time spend doing something,) will be spent waiting on the CPU to get stuff done than time it takes to read data out of storage.

So take the 2 seconds of I/O during an 8 second load example, that's I/O taking 25% of the time to load. Once you half it, it's only 1/7th or ~14.3% of the time it takes so any improvement to I/O will be less substantive than prior gains because you're waiting on different things more than you are on I/O.

I think I/O largely became less of a bottleneck since the advent of SSDs in general and the fact that it has been improving faster than CPU speeds (relatively speaking,) which is causing it. That's just my rationale behind why I think that M.2 is kind of a waste of time (at the moment) but that's me. You can only improve memory and storage so much before you naturally make the CPU your bottleneck.

 

[nemesis.ie]

Everything has the potential to be a bottleneck at some point.

I did notice improved load times on many games when using 2 x SSDs in RAID0, so I still think storage speed is important for that and if the CPU is causing delay loading levels then the load method maybe needs to be revised, I'm pretty sure there is enough bandwidth to get the data over to the graphics cards fairly quickly versus SSD speeds.

Maybe CADAVECA or someone with access to a load of test hardware can do some game load time benchmarks comparing scaling on the storage side, CPU side and PCIe speed to the graphics cards. That might be a fun way to spend a weekend.

Anyone have a Micron P420m kicking about? That should answer the question pretty decisively.

 

[HTWingNut]

Why are they even bothering releasing these SATA SSDs in M.2 format?

Laptops.

 

[xBruce88x]

Sorry, I don't get your point? These ones are only 550MB/s.

Which they suggest is "greatly enhanced".

It only is versus platter drives; we've had these speeds on SSDs literally for years and it's not the enhanced speed of even the slower version of the new format ...

Of course as it's a SATA 6GB/s controller it never can be faster. Very dubious marketing IMO.

BTW, I love your avatar.

sorry my bad i misread the article... or its been edited? i dunno been in the hospital for a while. and thanks about the avatar.

oh wow... this thread is older than i thought... my bad lol (silly alerts)