ADATA Legend 970 2TB SSD Review

The Legend 970 comes in a pretty compact box with a decent image of the drive on the front along with details of the format and interface it uses. The rear of the box has a small multilingual list of the drives features.

The ADATA Legend 970 is built on a dual-sided format. On one side of the PCB is the Phison PS5026-E26 8-channel controller, two 512GB packages of Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND and a 4GB DDR4-4266 DRAM cache IC. The other side of the board holds another pair of 512GB NAND packages.

The drive uses an active cooling system comprising an aluminium alloy heatsink and a microfan. The heatsink uses dual layer fins which have been treated with surface crystallization to increase the overall air contact area. The tiny fan gets its power via a SATA power connector. The cooler adds around 17mm to the height and 4mm to the width of the drive.

ADATA's SSD management utility goes by the name SSD ToolBox. Looking beyond the graphically rich GUI, the SSD ToolBox is a feature-rich and useful tool. There's a pretty comprehensive drive information page that includes remaining space, drive temperature and drive health. You get two diagnostic options, Quick and Full. The Quick option runs basic tests on free space of the selected drive while the Full option runs a reading test on all used space of the selected drive.

The utilities page includes Security Erase, Firmware updates and an export log and there is a performance benchmark.  The SSD ToolBox also offers drive cloning support as well.

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