ADATA Premier Pro SP920 SATA SSD

With the Premier Pro SP920, ADATA have an SSD in their portfolio, which is based on a very well performing and well-known controller from Marvell. Other than that ADATA have optimized the firmware towards maximum performance as well as high endurance....

With hardware under the hood shared with the Micron/Crucial M550, the ADATA Premier Pro SP920 comes into the market as a known quantity, although the performance dipped compared to same capacity M550.

We dug ADATA’s Premiere Pro SP920 series of drives and think they’re solid offerings in the current SSD landscape. If you’re in the market for an SSD, and want to get the best deal possible, the ADATA Premiere Pro SP920 series of drives perform well and are priced competitively.

I'm naturally waiting with bated breath for LSI's response, but that doesn't make products based on Marvell's silicon any less compelling. We already know that the SP920 is an evolution of hardware wringing every last bit of performance from the SATA 6Gb/s interface. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Overall, the ADATA Premier Pro SP920 512GB is a fantastic drive with plenty of features, great performance, and a low price to boot. Business and workstation users who need features such as power loss protection, and aren’t interested in paying enterprise class SSD prices should definitely check it out.

I'm just not sure Adata's software is enough to elevate them over largely equivalent offering from a much bigger player. Then again, if you see one of the larger-capacity versions of the SP920 sporting a juicy discount in one of our deal posts, now you know you'd be getting an M550 clone on the cheap.

The ADATA Premier Pro SP920 is, by all means, a twin of the new Crucial M550 but there are definite reasons to seiously consider this drive. Along with the positives of it having the new Marvell controller and power failure protection, ADATA has set this SSD at a lower price point, all the while including a desktop adapter and free retail version of Acromis Migration software ($49 value).

With every factor being taken into account, it is nearly impossible to overlook AData’s Premier Pro SP920 512GB. It is one of the few SSDs which offers a low cost alongside nearly flagship-matching performance. For anyone looking to get into the SSD market, it doesn’t get any better than this.