Introduction

ADATA is Taiwan's largest manufacturer of flash storage and DRAM memory for computers. They have been at the forefront of SSD development for many years, bringing us famous SSDs like the SX8200, SX900, and S510.



Today, we are reviewing the ADATA SE900G, which is the company's latest portable SSD. It is one of the first external storage drives that utilizes the blazing fast USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 20 Gbps interface, which doubles the transfer rates over USB 3.2 Gen 2x1, aka USB 3.1 Gen 2. Many portable SSDs using USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 were bottlenecked by the USB interface speed, so it makes sense to increase the interface transfer rate another notch. At this time, not a single AMD AM4 motherboard natively supports the 20 Gbps USB interface; on Intel, there's about 60 motherboards, most using the Z590 chipset. For all our testing, we used a Gigabyte GC-USB 3.2 Gen2x2 PCI-Express x4 add-in card, so we can properly test ADATA's SE900G portable SSD.

Another highlight of ADATA's SSD is that it has a dazzling RGB lighting implementation that covers almost the whole front of the SSD.

Internally, the SE900G uses a USB-to-PCIe bridge chip paired with a full-size ADATA SX8200 Pro SSD. The SX8200 Pro uses Micron 96-layer B27A 3D TLC flash and a Silicon Motion SM662EN controller with 1 GB of Samsung DRAM.

We review the ADATA SE900G in the 2 TB variant, which retails for $285, but it is also available in capacities of 512 GB and 1 TB. Warranty is set to five years for these models.