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

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By Brent Justice
7.5
OVERALL SCORE

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Test Setup

Please read our SSD Storage Review Format and Methodology article for an explanation of our test system, how we test, our procedures, and our goals for SSD reviews. Note that the test system has been changed and updated as of this review, and moving forward, please refer to the System Setup table below for the details and specs on the new test system. All of the SSDs in this review have been re-tested on this new system setup, and all the SSD data in this review is fresh for this review.

We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings.  We are running the latest motherboard BIOS.  We have Windows 11 Pro configured to run in the “Balanced” power profile.  Windows has the latest updates and has been updated to 24H2. 

CrystalDiskInfo

Installation of the SSD went smoothly. In CrystalDiskInfo we can see information on the SSD below. We can see that the ADATA LEGEND 970 PRO 2TB SSD has Firmware 0502010E installed and is running at PCIe 5.0 x4. We checked for a firmware update before testing, this was the latest version at the time of testing.

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REVIEW OVERVIEW

The FPS Score
7.5

SUMMARY

The ADATA LEGEND 970 PRO 2TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD is the successor to the ADATA LEGEND 970 first generation PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD from ADATA. The LEGEND 970 PRO switches to the InnoGrit controller, but offers up to a 14GB/s read and 11GB/s write sequential performance. In our testing, the SSD achieves these goals, and reaches its theoretical maximum throughput. However, it does underperform in latency, and other typical everyday workload tasks, which ultimately cause it to underperform the competition, and also the previous generation LEGEND 970 using the Phison controller. ADATA has improved the cooling, and we like the overall design and cooling mechanism ADATA utilizes, it's a great design. Overall, this SSD would be an ok buy, at the right price, and that price would have be very affordable to be competitive.
7.5
OVERALL SCORE
Brent Justicehttps://www.thefpsreview.com
Former managing editor of GPUs at HardOCP for 18 years, Brent Justice has been reviewing computer components since the late 90s, educated in the art and method of the computer hardware review, he brings experience, knowledge, and hands-on testing with a gamer-oriented and hardware enthusiast perspective. You can follow him on Twitter - @Brent_Justice You can sub to his YouTube channel - Justice Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/JusticeGamingChannel You can check out his computer builds on KIT - @BrentJustice https://kit.co/BrentJustice

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