ADATA LEGEND 960 MAX Review - A little Underwhelming…

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ADATA’s latest and greatest PCIe Gen4x4 SSD, the LEGEND 960 MAX, is meant to rival the best drives on the market. It’s priced around the same, offers up to 4TB capacities and claims 7.4GB/s reads and 6.8GB/s writes - even a 5 year warranty and PS5 compatibility - but in my testing it’s solidly midfield at best.

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ADATA LEGEND 960 MAX Review - A little Underwhelming…

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[dorantheforger]

1:01 1 TB model doesn't claim 7400/6800 speed, it claims 7400/6000.And ı am using the ssd.Working perfectly well, especially when it comes to thermal throttling, SSD never heats up.

[ryutenmen]

Warning: DO NOT USE THE INCLUDED THERMAL PADS WITH THIS SSD(or any other).

Those thermal pads are EXTREMELY sticky, I repeat - THEY ARE EXTREMELY STICKY and if you didnt mount the radiator well and want to re-align it afterwards or if you plan to change the radiator later, you are in a world of pain, as the pad underneath the SSD will glue to the SSD's sticker and they almost merge into one(the sticker is also glued to the SSD).
I struggled almost an hour the un-glue the SSD from the underneath thermal-pad from the lower radiator. I thought the SSD will break trying to un-glue it, and of course the SSD sticker pealed in pieces - some were left on the SSD and some on the thermal-pad. Some pieces of the EXTREMELY sticky thermal-pad were left on the lower radiator and even with isopropyl alcohol they were very-very hard to remove - I had to scratch the paint form the radiator to remove the sticky thermal-pad.

At the end, trying to peel the thermal-pad from the radiator, it behave like an extremely resistant chewing-gum - very hard to peel and elastic, and tough to break.

I've never seen anything like that even remotely closely. These thermal pads are 100% glue.

ADATA is very scummy to put these pads to any SSD.

[GeordiLaForgery]

Thanks for showing the real world write test. Not the fastest but still ridiculous fast.

[adamt.]

The funny thing is that in my country (Poland) Adata is more than 3 times cheaper than Sabrent Rocket Plus so talk about value :D

[marekogarek]

At least in my country it's so much cheaper than the other SSDs you are comparing it to. I'm going to buy it simply because it's the cheapest 2TB gen4 with AES 256-bit encryption on the market. At this pricepoint it's worthy of note that it's only 'middling' and not pathetic.

Frankly in real world scenarios even this drive is overkill, SATA SSD would be enough. But it's only 25 USD more than the cheapest SATA SSD, so why not.

[WarlockTil]

Not sure how you done your tests to achive those values, maybe I am missing something, but for me on the very day I installed it on my brand new PC I was getting 7450/6795 MB/s sequential read/write, 505/369 random read/write inside Adata's SSD Toolbox app

[Le_Mon]

Chose this because it's the cheapest 2tb gen4x4 with claims of 7000 speeds where I am. Other brands costs considerably more.

[trck]

Just a question. The way you installed the ssd. You didnt put the bracket with it. You just went in with the heat sink without anything thats sticking to it? Tried that and for me it keeps falling off.

[nalo]

i can buy the 2TB one for 120$ + im using it on a gen 3 m.2 so im maxing that slot out. ill buy this one

[bobsmithy]

Should I use this or the Kingston KC3000 1TB?

[rishigupta]

How about PS5 performance, without heatsink ?

[Albarios]

This drive is the very best value option for 4 TB SSDs in the market.

[Bill-uzmr]

So the Adata XPG Gammix S70 Blade performs much better than this Legend 960 Max?

[MikeBob]

Thanks for the review. 👍 Do you have any experience with the 1TB *Kingston Fury Renegade* M.2 NVMe drive? I just bought a pair of them to use in a build I'm preparing to put together, and I was wondering how they'd stack up to the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus.

[BuildersBench]

will this work for laptops without the heatsink and just use a thermal pad? laptop in use is G15 zephyrus. thanks! :)

[gador_xo]

They are selling it without heatsink, it's just legend 960 without max.

[mastfamastfa]

all your reviews negative
i just hit the dislike and leave