Question 1

Will this drive work in a Dell Precision 690?

Accepted Answer

The generic answer: Yes.  As long as your system has a SATA-1, 2, or 3 interface, this drive will work.

More specific answer: I found the Dell Precision 690 spec PDF on Dell's site via Google.  It appears to be a tower case with SATA-3 availabilty.  If this is your system, then yes this drive would work as a standalone drive.  You can use it as a boot/OS drive or a separate data drive.

If you are using it in a RAID setup, then there are other configuration options to take into account.  Such as, you will need at least two of these drives to use them in a RAID-0 or RAID-1 setup.

Question 2

is this drive compatable with win8 pro?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I am running win8 pro on my computer: three of these SSDs raided 0 mode. The computer boots in seconds, I am very pleased! My rig has been running on them for over three months.

Question 3

does this fit a desktop computer?

Accepted Answer

It does work on a desktop. You will need to fix it to a suitable surface or if you prefer they do sell a conversion tray to fit into the 3.5" HD rack. With no real heat problem I usually attach it to the side of the HD rack with strips of foam tape on each of the long sides to allow for any heat issue. I just leave the end protruding to allow for the connections.

Question 4

Since it's so thin is there any problem installing this in a laptop?

Accepted Answer

It was not to difficult to install this into a laptop.  However, you will need to check that your laptop back plate will close after having installed a second hard drive.  I had to order a second laptop back plate that was modified to have a bigger plastic portion over the 2nd hard drive bay.  This part was not cheap at all.

But that's more of the laptop manufacturer's fault.

The SSD has actually come loose while in use.  I just folded some paper in half until it was thick enough and wedged it in the hard drive bay to keep the drive from disconnecting.

Cheers

Question 5

So I am not new to PC gaming, but I have never build my own PC. If you guys could help me out with this that would be great.
Here's the specs,

GeForce GTX 750 Ti
ADATA (2x4gb) ram
AMD FX-8320 
Gigabyte GA-990 FXA-UD3 ATX AM#+ motherboard
Rosewill hive 550W 80t bronze certified semi-modular ATX power supply
Cooler master hyper T4 70.0 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU cooler,

and this is where I need help. So I watched a youtube video and this guy said to get an ADATA Premier Pro sp900 128GB 2.5" AND a Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" for storage... But could I just get the Seagate 1TB hard drive instead? Is there something special about the first two? Do I need to have both in order for the computer to run? Or could I get the 1TB and have the computer run the same but have more storage? I am just confused and an answer to this question would help me understand things.

Accepted Answer

Use the ADATA solid state drive (SSD) as your boot drive. Usually that's the C: drive that you load your windows operating system on.  Then use a large standard drive (1-4 TB) as your secondary drive. Usually the secondary drive will be assigned the drive letter E: .  When you load a game from a Cd, DVD or download make sure to change the destination drive from default C: to E:  With this setup your boot time will be drastically reduced.  Windows will only use up part of the space on the SSD, anything you load onto and run from the SSD will be accessed much more quickly.  But remember space is limited. I tend to run only windows from the ADATA SSD....Good luck.... Happy build!!!!

Question 6

Backwards compatible with SATA I ? (1,5 Gbit/s 4CoreDualVSTA Asrock, Vin7)

Accepted Answer

It should be compatible. SATA was made with forward and backward compatibility in mind. A wikipedia search on SATA forward and backward compatibility would give you more information. The drive speed would be throttled down to SATA I speeds. Depending on what you want to use the driver for, you may want to also consider getting a SATA III controller to make the most of the drive's speed.

Question 7

Does this ssd work with windows 8?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 8

Would there be a benefit to getting this SSD, if a motherboard (a) has an Intel H61 chipset, which does not support AHCI, and B) is only SATA II compatible? Or will non-AHCI and non-SATA III, cripple the SSD’s functionality in a system to a point that the cost does not justify the benefit in increased performance, if any? If the SSD was utilized for such a motherboard, would a user see a noticeable performance improvement, if any?

Accepted Answer

Joshua is correct, of course.

Did some googling:
Some controllers do support limited garbage collection even in IDE mode. That would be a question ADATA could answer. Without some mechanism for evening out cell wear, the drive would slow over time. The lifespan depends on usage. 5-10 years maybe? You would not get any warning before the drive failed.

Question 9

Does anyone have Anvil Storage Utilities test results (read, write, total) for this 128gb drive?

Accepted Answer

I don't have it but be careful with this drive ... its been known to freeze up on people! There are quite a few blog postings about this but for the price it's not a bad SSD. I personally wouldn't spend more than $100 on this drive, sadly when I bought it, I spent over $120.

Question 10

Is this product 128 GM?

Accepted Answer

128GM is the ADATA model number for this drive.  It is a 128GB capacity drive which most people find acceptable to use as a boot drive to host a few programs, files and OS.

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