ADATA S511 Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AS511S3-60GM-C

Pros: - No problems so far, runnng two of these in RAID0 as drive C: - Running Windows 7 64-bit, fresh install on a EVGA FTW3.

Cons: - None

Overall Review: Something to consider when choosing an X58 chipset motherboard, and desiring RAID0: based on internet research, most folks choose the onboard Intel SATA II controller over the onboard Marvell SATA III controller for both stability and performance reasons. (It's very important to do thorough research)

Pros: Popped in, used disk migration tool, Win7Pro all in 1 hour. Advertised read/write speeds. Cheap migration to SATAIII

Cons: None *yet*. See other.

Overall Review: Day 1 installed and used for OS + critical apps. Chose this over OCZ alternatives due to firmware issues. Currently going fine. Will post another review at a later date to let people know of any degradation or firmware issues.

Pros: Not sure yet. Practical speeds not much different than my Caviar Black's. Windows index score 7.1

Cons: Actual throughput still under 100mb/s . HD tune Pro and every other benchmark program i have tested the drive with report "Error! Threshold reached. Replacing the Hard drive is recommended." "Health Status 0%" I wouldn't not usually trust the results of third party software, but when every last program I use reports the same thing, I cannot ignore it.

Overall Review: 1 egg for Newegg's obvious acceptance of the fact that these drives can fail and their refusal to refund when they do. Now my only choice is to RMA for return which means Ill get a "Re manufactured" drive and effectively paid $140 for a second hand drive. Could have bought a used drive on and online auction site for less. Instead I paid top dollar for a used one...

Pros: Cheaper than when I purchased in July 2011. SSDs heading in the right direction with $/GB. Adata quick to release firmware.

Cons: Can get no where near rated speeds by Adata. Tried several different controllers and compared to Vertex 3 (I owned one) and my current Wildfire they blow this SSD out of the sky albeit at a higher price.

Overall Review: Prior to firmware update: Sequential Read: 354.73mb/s Sequential Write: 73.44mb/s 4k Read: 16.17mb/s 4k Write: 56.73mb/s 4k-64Threaded Read: 59.11mb/s 4k-64Threaded Write: 73.97mb/s Access Read: 0.23ms Access Write: 0.28ms After firmware update: Sequential Read: 430.14mb/s Sequential Write: 74.32mb/s 4k Read: 16.85mb/s 4k Write: 52.68mb/s 4k-64Threaded Read: 58.81mb/s 4k-64Threaded Write: 74.34mb/s Access Read: 0.24ms Access Write: 0.27ms If you want a good way to penetrate into the SSD market this will satisfy most peoples needs. After using this for almost a year on an office PC it has suited it's requirements just fine.

Pros: Drive is freaking fast! Using a supported motherboard from ASUS, I'm getting average real-world write speeds of about 5Gigabits/sec (note this translates to around 650 MegaBYTES per second; don't confuse bytes with bits.) Drive is formatted in ext4 with default block sizes. In my case it was a good bang for the buck.

Cons: None encountered thus far.

Overall Review: I am running with out-of-the-box firmware 3.2.0. If people are having issues with their drives, there is a new firmware published on Adata's site and I recommend trying an upgrade. Also, if your motherboard only supports SATA2, then don't expect greater than SATA2 speeds (thought the dirve should still perform better than an equivalent HDD.)

Pros: Speeds are as advertised

Cons: None at the moment

Overall Review: Update to my prior posting - I did contact ADATA and they were extremely fast and prompt in giving me an RMA, and even offered to exchange it for a different model of a higher capacity. I had some personal things in my life that prevented me from sending out my drive (it really was due to the sandforce controller), and customer support actually checked up on me to make sure I still wanted to send the product back. They also mentioned that they had firmware in testing, and offered me a link to try it out. I still didn't have a chance, but by the time I did, the public firmware came out - I downloaded that, patched my drive, and since then, I have not had any issues since. So, I'm revising my review to reflect the product's performance and the excellent customer support ADATA gave. Thanks guys!

Pros: very fast, seriously i love it how its fast compared to maximum sata II ssd performance.

Cons: it was dead on arrival, i didnt have time to use it alot... but every morning it was dead and had to make a power cycle to reuse it... as i work alot, i've been waiting too long to rma it to newegg so now i have to send it back to adata... ADATA website kinda sucks tbh... no drivers or updates and firmware... what about forums? anyway... drive rocks, but to situation is very bad... as always rma is very bad because you have to pay money again and again....

Overall Review: as for performace/price i dont have anything to say! this is pretty fast write/read and thats how any ssd should be... not low write high read. and for the cons: i tried to remove any hibernate and sleep stuff and it keeps bsoding.

Pros: I ordered two of these drives a little over a month ago and they are extremely fast and responsive. Running two of these drives in a RAID 0 array. The computer boots up in about 10-20 seconds max. Running applications is great. I wish I had moved to SSDs years ago.

Cons: The downside is one drive apparently likes to fail at random intervals. Sometimes twice in a day sometimes it will last as long as three days between failures. The computer will throw out a plethora of error messages and then return to POST where the raid array will be unable to detect the same drive and the array is listed as "failed." I wanted to make sure the problem wasn't due to something on my end (being new to SSDs and non-server RAID arrays) before declaring the drive as bad. Hopefully ADATA will be able to replace the drive without too much hassle.

Overall Review: I read the reviews on this drive as well as others devices before I purchased. Based on the reviews out there on SSD products I have to wonder if random failures\DOA drives is just a potential problem with them. I have never had any problem with typical HDDs but almost every SSD out there includes reviews of drives that occasionally fail during normal use from the start. Maybe the technology isn't mature enough yet as other people I know seem to have the same hit/miss rate using SSDs.