ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSD Review

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File Copy and Workstation Performance

DiskBench

With DiskBench we place a 50GB single file onto the test drive. We copy this file from the test drive to a new folder on the test drive, volume to volume. This tests the performance of the drive’s ability to copy a single large file from itself to itself as if you were copying files on the same drive, it replicates this drive being your primary and only drive. Results are in duration Seconds, lower is better.

DiskBench Graph

Copying a large 50GB file from volume to volume the ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB SSD once again performs the fastest, with only a time of 14.7 seconds to copy the large single file, it performs the best. It is much faster than the previous generation ADATA LEGEND 960 at a huge 12.6 seconds faster. Compared to the next fastest SSD, the Netac NV7000-t it is half a second faster.

SPECworkstation 3.1

We are using SPECworkstation 3.1 and specifically the WPCstorage test. “The storage workload is based on storage transaction traces from a wide variety of professional applications engaged in real work.” It includes media and entertainment, product development, life sciences, energy, and general operations. Each program receives a score, and they are averaged together for an overall score, higher is better.

SPECworkstation 3.1 Graph

The ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB SSD performs very well in SPECworkstation 3.1 Storage Workloads test with a score of 6.86 it is near the top.

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REVIEW OVERVIEW

Performance
10
Features
9
Cooling
7
Price Value
6

SUMMARY

We reviewed the ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSD, which introduces 10,000MB/s read/write PCIe Gen5 SSD performance in a slim form factor with a patented heatsink and active cooling solution. This NVMe 2.0 SSD features a DRAM cache, SLC Cache and a Phison E26 controller with 232-layer 3D NAND Flash to offer incredible performance in every metric, beating Gen4 SSDs. The active cooling solution is eloquent, if a bit loud. The price is high, and the value is in the performance and slim form factor for any build.
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We reviewed the ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSD, which introduces 10,000MB/s read/write PCIe Gen5 SSD performance in a slim form factor with a patented heatsink and active cooling solution. This NVMe 2.0 SSD features a DRAM cache, SLC Cache and a Phison E26 controller with 232-layer 3D NAND Flash to offer incredible performance in every metric, beating Gen4 SSDs. The active cooling solution is eloquent, if a bit loud. The price is high, and the value is in the performance and slim form factor for any build.ADATA LEGEND 970 2TB PCIe Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSD Review