A-DATA S592 128GB SSD Review

Crystal DiskMark

Crystal DiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds; and allows you to set the number of tests iterations to run. We left the number of tests at 5. When all 5 tests for a given section were run Crystal DiskMark then averages out all 5 numbers to give a result for that section.

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As expected these results are awfully darn good, but not as good as others we have seen in the past. A Barefoot controller based SSD is a Barefoot Controller SSD…and the only difference besides price is the firmware it comes with.

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In this test, the old firmware really has hobbled the S592. If A-Data ever does get its act together and figures out how OCZ does jumperless updates we strongly recommend you update to the latest FW as firmware updates are EXTREMELY important on Indilinx drives and not doing so may keep you from enjoying your SSD to the fullest. That being said these numbers are not terrible and if you can find it in the bargain bin at bargain bin prices….it may be a good way to get an Indilinx with fast NAND on the cheap.

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use “h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test” for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamout of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used “h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest”. This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


We may have some doubts over the various performance envelopes of a Vertex/Falcon/Torqx versus this SSD but it really does not come as any surprise that it has the exact same random access time as the others. Its also becoming almost redundant to say that and its all about the support as brand name means very little it seems.