ADATA 120GB m.2 2242 SSD (SATA)

Notice: Page may contain affiliate links for which we may earn a small commission through services like Amazon Affiliates or Skimlinks.

warlockedyou

Member
Sep 4, 2016
217
18
18
I picked this up today: ADATA 120GB M.2 2242 SSD Solid State Drive AXNS340E-120GM-B HP P/N 832447-001 | eBay

Looks like a hot deal (22 sold in 24 hours from what I see) and at $40 for 120GB, I can understand why.

Fine print: I have no relationship with the seller, and I am sharing this link "as-is". This posting is not an endorsement. The decision to buy or not is yours alone!
Welcome to the forums!

It seems like a decent deal considering the 90 days warranty you get from the seller. I would be interested in what the SMART data looks like if anyone ends up buying a few of these.
 

hmartin

Active Member
Sep 20, 2017
316
243
43
37
I saw these same 120 GB NGFF drives for $36.65 on the Kingspec official store on Aliexpress: Buy Products Online from China Wholesalers at Aliexpress.com No published write endurance TBW numbers, but they do say on their listing that the NAND is 3D MLC. I was thinking of getting some as boot devices for my new Asus MBs.
http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...7-m128-m-2-ngff-ultrabook-ssd-review-128gb/4/

I don't think anyone has done a comprehensive SSD endurance test on NGFF SSDs.

I have the 64GB version of this. I can run some benchmarks on it next week if you'd like. However from the photos the 64GB model only have one NAND POP, while the 120GB shows two, so I'd expect the performance of the 64GB model to be somewhat lower.
 

big dog

New Member
Feb 12, 2018
15
9
3
54
http://www.thessdreview.com/our-rev...7-m128-m-2-ngff-ultrabook-ssd-review-128gb/4/

I don't think anyone has done a comprehensive SSD endurance test on NGFF SSDs.

I have the 64GB version of this. I can run some benchmarks on it next week if you'd like. However from the photos the 64GB model only have one NAND POP, while the 120GB shows two, so I'd expect the performance of the 64GB model to be somewhat lower.
Here are the performance numbers from the Kingspec listing:

Capacity 60GB/120GB/240GB
Sustained Read (For reference only) 380~500MB/s | 410~520MB/s | 420~490MB/s
Sustained Write (For reference only) 70~165MB/s | 110~200MB/s | 115~190MB/s​

I suspect these are legit, since the write performance is unimpressive. Whatever SLC cache it has fills and the write goes directly to MLC. Still, it's better than TLC.

On the HP Adata NGFFs, they appear to be HP notebook pulls. They could be "new", but the seller's other listings are mostly used parts.
 

StevenDTX

Active Member
Aug 17, 2016
493
173
43
I dont care about a ton of speed. I'm just throwing it into a StarTech USB enclosure.
 

Oddworld

Member
Jan 16, 2018
64
32
18
124
What USB enclosure is recommended for this drive? Would be nice to make a fast USB3.0 disk.

Enclosure reviews seem mixed on Amazon, so wanted your input.
 

RAINMAN

New Member
Mar 5, 2016
18
6
3
39
Is the kingspec the same as the adata in the first post? A bit confused where the kingspec discussion came from...
 

beatle

Member
Mar 23, 2017
48
6
8
Thanks. At those speeds I suppose I should have done some better research before pulling the trigger. I planned to use it as a cache for NAS writes with Drivepool, but now I'm not so sure.