ADATA Ultimate Series: SU740 1TB Internal SATA Solid State Drive (ASU740SS-1T-R)

This review is targeted toward businesses that likely do not need gaming features. This is not a gaming SSD; anyone building a gaming rig should use an NVMe drive in their machine and never look at SATA in any form as a boot option.My company has installed around two thousand of this drive model in the last three years. As a result, I feel somewhat uniquely qualified to write a review on it! I am sure there are other contractors who have installed quite a few of these drives as well and I would be interested to hear if their experiences match mine.Pros* This drive is shipped in easy to open packaging. It takes approximately three seconds to remove this drive safely from the packaging. When you are doing one, who cares right? Welllll...... This is my first pro for a reason - when you are opening two hundred drives this is a very important metric.* Read / write speeds are very close to advertised speeds* Price / performance / GB ratio is close to the best we've used* Our observed failure rates are currently three out of the ~2000 drives we've installed which is the best of any other brand SSD we've tried (we've extensively used all major manufacturers) including top tier producers like Samsung. We do still use other brands for specific use cases but these are the most reliable SSDs that we've found.Cons* The drive housing is flimsy and lacks the heft or sturdiness of higher end drives.* Certain Dell BIOSes have issues with this drive series. They will randomly reboot and then a BIOS level message will show saying that there is no hard drive detected. We've seen it on multiple models but most frequently on Inspiron 3471 and Vostro 3470 units with not-current BIOS versions. If you do use this in a Dell from the last two years, I would advise flashing to the newest BIOS version before you image over as you definitely don't want it crashing in the middle of the update. We actually did have that happen once and were fortunately able to recover the machine.* These don't play all that well with 2.5" to 3.5" adapters with electronics in them like Icy Dock units and will occasionally cause IO errors with some BIOSes. Try looking for a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter that doesn't use electronics. There are some Dell server-specific models that work well for using them in servers - Dell part number 9W8C4 is good if you use some models of Dell server and there are lots of other manufacturers that make these types of adapter for other systems.We have three cases in which we use this drive:1) We have a client that wants to upgrade one or more of their office workstations to SSD. We have used many models but I currently prefer this because of the factors I list in the Pros section above.2) We are selling a low cost workstation model that we have upgraded with additional RAM and an SSD. We use these vs m.2 drives because we want a drop in replacement for the hard drive that came with it.3) We have a few clients that are non-profits and rely on donated hardware. In a few cases, I decided to use these low cost drives in donated servers instead of used hard drives. Surprisingly, none of these (of various sizes) I've used in these server use cases have ever had an issue. In the three years since we started using them, zero out of probably thirty have failed and none of them have ever lost RAID sync. These are all obviously low-write environments but they are definitely getting more use than a normal desktop PC and I think that's pretty good considering how inexpensive these are.I wrote this review more or less to thank Adata for making such a quality product. I don't often write reviews and usually when I do they are negative but the low rate of failure we've seen on these is simply astounding. It makes my job sooooo much easier and more lucrative when I don't have to deal with pissed off clients expecting free work because a part we sold them failed in under a year.This drive won't win performance awards from gamers but the value and reliability it represents for businesses is absolute.

Just good, I recommend it.

I installed one SU740 1TB Internal SATA Solid State Drive (ASU740SS-1T-R) to replace replace a 1TB Western Digital hdd in my desktop and one in an old laptop that I had named DinoDell (for Dinosaur). Both computers had amazing speed/response increases - I renamed the laptop DynoDell. I will soon buy another one to use in place of USB sticks. Along with a SABRENT USB 3.0 to SSD / 2.5 Inch SATA I/II/III Hard Drive Adapter (EC-SSHD) Hard Drive Adapter Type-A, transferring large video/movie files at USB3 speeds is consistently 10 times faster writing than USB sticks and not limited to a 4GB size limitation. I am also thinking about buying another one to replace an older external backup storage drive.

Excellent for Replacement Old HD to an SSD Drive

Used it to upgrade a Think book, and it increased capacity. Not sure if it sped things up at all, but it works just fine.

Have several ADATA ssd units in use and they have become my goto for breathing life into aging pcs and laptops. Running a couple of them in raid 0 for a gaming pc. Very happy with these drives :)

Good for the price.Fast SSD with 3D-NAND.ADATA also offers software support on the website.I've been using it with the Raspberry Pi 4B with no issues.

it gave my laptop the boost I wanted. installed easy and my laptop works super duper now.

Tecnimente funciono a la prefeccionLlego a tiempo

Remplazo a un disco mecánicoQuedó muy bien su compatibilidad y características me agradaron

Es la primera vez que realizo la clonacion de un ssd a ssd, si no lo realizas correctamente tendrás otro disco de la misma capacidad del anterior

Me gustó que con la instalación la computadora funciona más rápido

Overall, the ssd is what you’d except. The ssd has lasted me a couple days (haven’t used it for much longer than a month and is still working perfectly). If you can, I’d recommend going with a more known brand like Samsung or Crucial. The speeds are very fast, my MacBook Pro 2012 running macOS Catalina boots up in less than 30 seconds. Arrived extremely fast, and had great packaging for a $50 ssd. Would recommend, but isn’t the best on the market.