A hole in the cardboard allows for seeing the drive’s serial number label from the outside.

The rear clarifies that the performance claim is based on PCMark 8 Bandwidth Test, and contains a number of product warranty related messages. It claims to be 10x faster than a 7200RPM hard drive. As a “value” series SSD, the lack of any other inclusions is perhaps not unexpected. The drive comes on a retail hanging package with nothing else but the drive itself, its distinctive branded design shown off through a clear plastic bubble. OCZ Vertex 3, ADATA SU650) so I decided to take these reviews with a grain of salt. I’ve previously owned a number of SSDs which were considered by some to be “very unreliable” but not encountered any issues (e.g. This particular model has been the subject of a number of negative threads, suggesting it is a very unreliable model with poor performance and varying internals. At this price, it was cheaper than even some USB sticks which had less than a quarter of its capacity, making it a bargain. This week, I decided to pick up a Kingston A400 960GB SATA SSD at the “bargain” price of AU$120 posted to convert into a portable USB drive.

Kingston a400 manager