ADATA S511 240GB SSD Review (Sandforce 2281)

We use Futuremark’s PCMark Vantage in many of our system reviews and we felt that it was worth an inclusion in this review. It is still a synthetic suite, but it uses many real world characteristics to try and judge overall performance levels. We are using the 64 bit version of the HDD Suite for this testing. We also compare against a Samsung F1 1TB drive on this page.

A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security. From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.

The ADATA and OCZ drives are closely matched in this benchmark, with our three highlighted results all favouring the ADATA drive. Other results in the images attached show the performance swinging a little in favour of the OCZ drive. Video editing and adding music to Windows Media Player both score better on the Vertex 3. This would indicate that both companies have tuned the drives in a slightly different way.

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