ADATA LEGEND 960 MAX Review - A little Underwhelming…

[@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.

[@ral2793]

how did you manage to remove it?

[@ryutenmen]

@@ral2793 with force applied (I was bending the SSD so much I feared it will brake in half) and a screwdriver carefully in between to help it unglue. Even though I was as carefully as I could, I was lucky I didn't accidentally remove the small caps on the SSD. The anxiety was through the roof for about an hour.

[@trck9631]

@@ryutenmenbro i have 2tb and its fucked. Im too afraid to try removing it

[@ryutenmen]

@@trck9631 if its not necessary to remove it then dont, but if you are bend to do it thrn use lots of Isopropyl alcohol on it before hand.

[@gutsandglory1934]

insane data, thanks

[@dorantheforger6819]

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.

[@GeordiLaForgery]

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

[@adamt.7376]

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

[@cmja09]

same here in philippines, the 2TB 960 MAX is only $128, my choices right now for Gen4 2TB NVMe is this one or the $100 2TB SX8200 Pro

[@Astristul]

Same in Romania. But it shows why. It's far behind Firecuda 530!

[@Swoop_Boy]

@@cmja09 How's the performance? I'm planning to buy either this or the samsung 970 evo+.

[@marekogarek6329]

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.

[@Astristul]

Actually it's not! Look at the tests done before the outro. I get those speeds with gen3 NVMe and this was supposed to be gen4!

[@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_Mon9]

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

[@nalo1728]

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

[@Albarios]

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

[@trck9631]

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.

[@rishigupta5]

How about PS5 performance, without heatsink ?

[@Astristul]

Without heatsink?! It will get toasted! No SSD should be installed in the PS5 without a heatsink!

[@bobsmithy3103]

Should I use this or the Kingston KC3000 1TB?

[@Bill-uz2mr]

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

[@BuildersBench]

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

[@MikeBob2023]

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.

[@ovistech]

You can find a review for it on my channel.

[@MikeBob2023]

@@ovistech Thanks! 🤗

[@gador_xo]

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

[@gador_xo]

@@Ryukyu_Dragon The only difference is heatsink actually. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Poland Adata Legend 960 max has the best price/quality ratio.

[@mastfamastfa1256]

all your reviews negative i just hit the dislike and leave

[@Astristul]

It's called objective! Many reviewers are posting paid reviews, by the companies, so that everything will look good and the product will sell. I find his reviews very honest tbf!