ADATA Falcon 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD

W1zzard · Jun 8, 2020

The ADATA Falcon SSD is priced at just $130 for the 1 TB version, or 13 cents per gigabyte, which makes it one of the most affordable SSDs on the market. In our review, we found decent performance that beats QLC, and ADATA is even including a small heatsink that helps with thermal throttling.

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Oberon · Jun 8, 2020

Performance is fine, but I can't imagine why anyone would buy one when something like an EX950 is just $0.01/GB more. You'd have to be on an extremely strict budget.

Nater · Jun 8, 2020

Oberon said:
Performance is fine, but I can't imagine why anyone would buy one when something like an EX950 is just $0.01/GB more. You'd have to be on an extremely strict budget.

ikr.
SX8200 Pro is $140. +$10 takes you to the top of the charts. Does the average user feel that $10? Probably not...but for one less Big Mac Meal I'll take it knowing it's there.

Prima.Vera · Jun 8, 2020

Is there something similar for SATA??

W1zzard · Jun 8, 2020

Prima.Vera said:
Is there something similar for SATA??

Probably MX500

damric · Jun 8, 2020

Seems horrible compared to similarly priced Silicon Power A80. Speaking of which, it is not on the comparison graphs despite being reviewed recently?

QUANTUMPHYSICS · Jun 8, 2020

I just want SSD production to be as plentiful as possible. Not very long ago, Intel 660p 2TB m.2 were selling under $200. Now just about all 2TB models are above $200.

bonehead123 · Jun 8, 2020

If ya wanna play, ya gotzta pay

And the 660p is a shit drive anyways, the only way I would use one is if ya gave it to me for free...

SN750 blacks/EX950's/SX8200 only for me please....

techboj · Jun 9, 2020

It's good that more M.2 @ 1TB are going down in price. I was lucky to get a 1TB SN750 last March for about $141 (C$189) and a 1TB SN550 in April for $111 (C$149). Canadian prices are usually much higher but one thing people fail to consider is the turnover time should something go wrong with the product and you need to RMA it. When I had a WD external hard drive fail, it took about 5 days to get the replacement. When I had ADATA DDR3 memory modules fail, it took 1 week to get the RMA authorization and another 3 weeks to get the replacement. Both claims were sent to a Canadian address/depot for fulfillment. I have a friend who experienced the same turnaround time when her new SX8200 failed barely 2 months after purchase. I'm not saying Adata is bad, but I value my time and good/easy support is important for me.

Minus Infinity · Jun 9, 2020

Adata SX8200 only 2c/GB more expensive so I don’t see the point. If we got 4TB capacity and 10c/GB then sure, as a storage drive replacement.

W1zzard · Jun 9, 2020

damric said:
Speaking of which, it is not on the comparison graphs despite being reviewed recently?

Added to "reference" results, remade charts and uploaded

Space Lynx · Jun 10, 2020

I just scrolled down the NVME drive reviews here on the site, i don't see any gen4? do you not have the gear to test that? I was wondering if the $70 price increase is worth going gen 4 route if you have the right mobo/cpu? from what I can see on other websites it only increases the rand read and right by 1000-2000 mb/s which is probably not noticeable at all for anyone, but the other numbers mostly stay the same when compared with top of the line gen3... so what do you think? just save my money grab a $130 gen3 nvme over a gen4? I have a 1TB SN750 i got on sale for 130 but haven't opened it. you gave it a slightly bad review... and its like 30 seconds slower than this drive here for steam preload game unpacking... hmm...

anyone have advice for me? maybe i should refund my 1tb sn750 and get this? i don't really understand all the numbers, but i just saw the steam preload is better on this drive... or is my preload unpacking actually faster than wizz's sn750 review? cause his sn750 review was 500gb, so if the nvme drive i have is 1tb, doesn't that mean all the numbers will be faster on the 1tb?

W1zzard · Jun 10, 2020

lynx29 said:
i don't see any gen4? do you not have the gear to test that?

No point testing Gen 4 on Intel. New AMD-based SSD bench is in the works, just need to figure out a few new tests and then retest everything

lynx29 said:
I was wondering if the $70 price increase is worth going gen 4 route if you have the right mobo/cpu?

Not worth it, because that Phison controller is too slow: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/pci-express-4-0-nvme-ssd-test-amd-x570-ryzen-3000/3.html

lynx29 said:
maybe i should refund my 1tb sn750 and get this?

I don't think I reviewed SN750, but the 2018 model. You should be fine, assuming they increased the size of the SLC cache

kapone32 · Jun 10, 2020

bonehead123 said:
If ya wanna play, ya gotzta pay

And the 660p is a shit drive anyways, the only way I would use one is if ya gave it to me for free...

SN750 blacks/EX950's/SX8200 only for me please....

Definitely said by someone who has no experience with the polarizing 660P

bonehead123 · Jun 10, 2020

kapone32 said:
Definitely said by someone who has no experience with the polarizing 660P

The only "polarizing" part about them was their sheer lack of performance for the overly high prices ....I bought 6 at the time of their release, was severely disappointed, then sold them & bought the aforementioned drives

Tacohillman · Jun 11, 2020

What about the Adata Swordfish? Any difference? Besides apparently being worth 10 bucks more for the silver finish. I am looking at the 2 terabyte unit. Falcon at 229, Swordfish at 239.

Been looking for reviews. So far not really seeing a whole lot of them. Half the price of the ones I have now seems a sweet deal.

W1zzard · Jun 11, 2020

Tacohillman said:
Swordfish

Review next week or so

Nater · Jun 11, 2020

W1zzard said:
Review next week or so

At some point, are you going to tell Adata to just QUIT? "Send me something worth reviewing!" I used to defend their product stack, but I feel like they're just throwing shit at the wall these days to see what sticks. I don't know how you have the patience.

W1zzard · Jun 11, 2020

Nater said:
At some point, are you going to tell Adata to just QUIT? "Send me something worth reviewing!" I used to defend their product stack, but I feel like they're just throwing shit at the wall these days to see what sticks. I don't know how you have the patience.

The Falcon is a very decent SSD for the price

Oberon · Jun 16, 2020

kapone32 said:
Definitely said by someone who has no experience with the polarizing 660P

bonehead123 said:
The only "polarizing" part about them was their sheer lack of performance for the overly high prices ....I bought 6 at the time of their release, was severely disappointed, then sold them & bought the aforementioned drives

The 660p and other QLC drives are more than fine. If you have performance issues, you bought the wrong product for your workload in the first place.

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