A-DATA 128GB SSD $149

JMicron JMF612 is the chipset.

It is essentially the 596 128gb model with USB 3.0 tacked on.
 
Be nice if this was here b4 the kingston 128gb ssd, i wouldve bought this instead. It is a bit more expensive than the kingston one but i dont have to deal with rebates.
 
Er okay, how is this not an awesome deal? Sure, it's not latest gen, but it's still a SSD for almost $1/gb and 128gb. Plus with the $10 new customer off coupon it's even better. I'm buying this for my girlfriend's laptop, she doesn't need screaming performance, but I this is the perfect speed/size ratio...
 
I think this would make a perfect Laptop HD. if you want something quick, and your still stuck in Sata2. From my research, there isn't too much out there on this even though it a 1+ year old. But how do you say know to the price. >_<
 
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Jelic said:
Er okay, how is this not an awesome deal? Sure, it's not latest gen, but it's still a SSD for almost $1/gb and 128gb. Plus with the $10 new customer off coupon it's even better. I'm buying this for my girlfriend's laptop, she doesn't need screaming performance, but I this is the perfect speed/size ratio...
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The Jmicron SSD controllers have a horrible reputation. They were the cause of all the "stuttering" that early SSDs were plagued with. The 612 controller is supposed to be better but too many people were bit with the early drives to touch them with a 10 foot pole.
 
How important is sequential Read/Write in terms of drive performance? I ask because a samsung f3 hd is rated slower, but not by much compared to this drive. Is there something else that makes these drives "faster".

I'm more looking for quick app load times, restart times etc mainly. I get the feeling that any SSD would be quite an upgrade but just looking for some reassurance before / want to know if there is any other factor that makes them faster besides read/write. Access time? Idk

Thanks
 
danbanger said:
How important is sequential Read/Write in terms of drive performance? I ask because a samsung f3 hd is rated slower, but not by much compared to this drive. Is there something else that makes these drives "faster".

I'm more looking for quick app load times, restart times etc mainly. I get the feeling that any SSD would be quite an upgrade but just looking for some reassurance before / want to know if there is any other factor that makes them faster besides read/write. Access time? Idk

Thanks
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Access time is what makes an SSD curbstomp a standard HDD. The sequential transfer times of a HD/SSD are largely meaningless as 99% of file operations are anything but.
 
I picked one up, going to use it as an OS/Swap drive on my laptop
 
bigddybn said:
The Jmicron SSD controllers have a horrible reputation. They were the cause of all the "stuttering" that early SSDs were plagued with. The 612 controller is supposed to be better but too many people were bit with the early drives to touch them with a 10 foot pole.
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Let's forget about stuttering, because any drive with cache does not stutter anymore (i.e. all of them). These drives do not stutter. They do crash frequently, though. Maybe they fixed it with the 612 controller. Maybe.

Jelic said:
Er okay, how is this not an awesome deal? Sure, it's not latest gen, but it's still a SSD for almost $1/gb and 128gb. Plus with the $10 new customer off coupon it's even better. I'm buying this for my girlfriend's laptop, she doesn't need screaming performance, but I this is the perfect speed/size ratio...
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...because it's probably as reliable as the SandForce based drives. Which is to say not. On the plus side, the JMicron controller will not panic lock, encrypting all your data so that it is totally unrecoverable.

midnkight said:
I think this would make a perfect Laptop HD. if you want something quick, and your still stuck in Sata2. From my research, there isn't too much out there on this even though it a 1+ year old. But how do you say know to the price. >_<
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Only an SLC based drive or possibly an Intel G2 are a "perfect" laptop HD. All others so far have shown to have reliability issues.

anthrex said:
Would this be a good drive to put into my laptop?
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See above.
 
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I got mine the other day and installed it in my mbp, works great except the screw holes are too shallow so I could not put the screws in to secure it :mad:

so its just flopping around inside the laptop :eek:
 
i only use intel G2 SSDs.. and they have been flawless. Tried a jmicron once, stuttered, returned it... Sandforce looks nice on paper, but they are completely unreliable.
 
FLECOM said:
I got mine the other day and installed it in my mbp, works great except the screw holes are too shallow so I could not put the screws in to secure it :mad:

so its just flopping around inside the laptop :eek:
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that's something a thin piece of foam would take care of nicely.
 
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Full image: http://imgur.com/auMyH

This is my first SSD and even though it's not the fastest SSD there is, it's definitely a huge upgrade from my HDD Samsung F3 -- that mech drive is no slouch either.
 
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that's something a thin piece of foam would take care of nicely.
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yep, probably that or its going to go into a SATA laptop cdrom > SATA laptop hard drive enclosure... I very rarely use the optical drive, so I figure I can put my 750Gb 7200rpm Seagate back in there and use it for mass storage and the 120Gb A-DATA for the OS

laptop has 4Gb of ram, thinking of bumping it to 8Gb and making a 4Gb ram drive for tmp and swap

also the built in USB was kinda nice, just plugged it into the machine, used CarbonCopyCloner to copy the boot partition over to the SSD and swapped it out without issue :D
 
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