A-DATA shows off SSD with SATA 6Gbps interface

Posted on Thursday, June 03 2010 @ 22:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TechPowerUp spotted two new SSD series at A-DATA's Computex booth. First up is the S501, this model has a SATA 6Gbps interface and promises read speeds of up to 350MB/s and write speeds of up to 300MB/s. The disk features 34nm MLC NAND flash, 128MB cache and capacities of up to 512GB.

Also new is the S596 Turbo, this is an updated version of the company's S596. This model has a SATA 3Gbps and a mini-USB 2.0 interface. It's available in capacities of up to 256GB, there's 128MB DDR2 cache inside and it promises read speeds of up to 280MB/s and write speeds of up to 180MB/s.

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