A-Data LEGEND 700 GOLD SLEG-700G-1TCS-S48 1 TB

Inexpensive but productive 1000 TB SSD drive with support for the NVMe 1.3 protocol and Host Memory Buffer technology. It belongs to the M.2-2280 form factor, has compact dimensions, weighs only 10 grams and consumes about 3 W of electricity, making it ideal for installation in modern laptops and ultrabooks. Compatible with all motherboards equipped with an M.2 port supporting 2/4-lanes PCI-E Gen3.

A-Data LEGEND 700 GOLD is a representative of the recently launched A-Data Legend product line, in which it plays a secondary role, inferior in its capabilities to the older models Legend 800 and Legend 900. The hardware basis of its configuration is a 4-channel Silicon Motion controller SM2263XT. It does not have its own DRAM buffer, but thanks to HMB support and the presence of a dynamic SLC cache, it is able to use a small fragment of system memory as a buffer.

To minimize potential overheating of the controller, the entire front panel of the drive was covered with a neat and attractive heatsink made in blue and gold tones. The widely used PCI-E 3.0 interface is used for data exchange, which increases the compatibility of the drive with laptops and motherboards from 5 or 6 years ago. Under these conditions, A-Data LEGEND 710 demonstrates solid, but far from record-breaking performance, writing and reading information at a maximum speed of 1600 and 2000 MB/s, respectively. The drive comes with a package of SSD Toolbox software, which can be useful for backing up data, monitoring the “health” of the drive and updating the firmware.