A-DATA S592 128GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter or PCMark is, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containg 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer to and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


Well this is a bit of a dogs breakfast now isn’t it? Except for the occasional silver lining in amongst the storm clouds, these numbers do lag behind the other Indilinx based SSDs we have looked at. Of course, a slightly inferior Indilinx SSD is still better than the majority of the competition.

Real World Stutters

Over a three day period we used the SSD as our main OS drive. During this period we did everything in our power to make the drive stutter. This is what we found out.

As with the all the other Indilinx based drives we have tested, the S592 does not stutter. As we have said in the past, you can however overload the drive, but just like a regular drive your system just becomes slow but will not crash. Of course, if you pile on enough past this point it will then stutter but this is way, way past the point where even an HDD would start to complain.