techradar.com Updated: 2013-11-01 21:57:10
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Being an early adopter of new technology can mean getting your fingers burned. So it was for the buyers of early solid state drives (SSDs) based on JMicron flash memory controllers. Their digits were scalded to the third degree.The problem was stuttery...
Great all-round specification, including USB port, Strong application performance...
Some anomalies in synthetic tests
, Long term performance an unknown...
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When it comes to SSD controllers, JMicron doesn’t have the best reputation. The first affordable, consumer focused SSDs were built using controllers from JMicron and set the industry back just as it was starting to take off. Those cacheless drives e...
Off the record, I’ve stated on a few occasions that JMicron has the very best sales team in the SSD market. I guess that’s on the record, though, and since I said it I will have to explain it. JMicron is the only company that failed to deliver a qua...
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When it comes to SSD controllers, JMicron doesn’t have the best reputation. The first affordable, consumer focused SSDs were built using controllers from JMicron and set the industry back just as it was starting to take off. Those cacheless drives e...
Off the record, I’ve stated on a few occasions that JMicron has the very best sales team in the SSD market. I guess that’s on the record, though, and since I said it I will have to explain it. JMicron is the only company that failed to deliver a qua...
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TBA As it was the first to market with JMicron's JMF612 chipset earlier this year, ADATA has updated its S596 SSD with the more recent 616 controller chip and tacked on a fancy 'Turbo' suffix to the name to let us know it's, well, .The JMF616 build...
We didn't expect the ADATA S596 Turbo to break any records, but it was surprisingly fast in the AS SSD tests, where SandForce's DuraWrite compression technology isn't a factor, even if the drive didn't handle the compressible data of ATTO especially well...
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ADATA is well-known in the industry for their memory products and offer a fairly diverse lineup of products from RAM to flash drives. Founded in 2001, they have recently begun their foray into Solid State Drive (SSD) storage and asked us to evaluate...
The ADATA S596 is a very capable SSD and one of the better performing JMicron drives we've tested. Having the flexibility of accessing data via the USB 2.0 interface gives it an edge over drives missing this feature...
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Computerpoweruser.com Updated: 2013-11-01 21:57:16
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The A-Data S596 is built around a JMicron controller and is outfitted with 128MB of cache. Performance was in line with WD’s offering, but its warranty is only two years. But with a sub-$300 price tag, handy built-in features, and a firmware update on the way, this...
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Solid State Dries have replaced Hard Disks on many computers due to the increased speeds that the drive provides over the traditional Hard disk gives the ultimate in performance in computers that take the modern computer to the next level. One issue wi...
For those wanting the fastest SSD drive on the planet, well the A-DATA has decent performance solidly scoring near on par with some of the other drives I have tested. The A-DATA S596 drive does have the distinction of the ability to run using a USB 2.0...
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2009 has been a both a fantastic and frustrating year for the SSD market, with the technology behind these most desirable of drives advancing significantly to now offer a genuinely superior alternative to even multi-drive RAID setups. The Indilinx co...
While we’re not quite able to give the JMicron 612 a fully clean bill of health at this pre-release stage, there are nevertheless a lot of positives to take from our first experience with JMicron’s new drive controller in the Adata S596. First...
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