IMAGE: ADDLINK AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 95
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Would you pay $120 for 1TB? You might, rabbit, you might. BY JON L. JACOBI
I must admit, I wasn’t
expecting all that much from
Addlink’s S70 SSD. I’d never
heard of the company before,
and a 1TB NVMe SSD for the stunningly low
price of $120 raises every red flag I know
concerning performance.
Well, pickle me and call me ridiculous if
the S70 didn’t run rings around the other
budget drives, and many pricier models in
our testing, easily earning an Editor’s Choice.
The market just got very interesting.
SPECS AND DESIGN
There’s not a whole lot to say about the design of
the S70 other than it’s your average M.2 NVMe
SSD, which is in the standard 2280 form factor
(22 mm wide, 80 mm long). It’s PCIe 3.0 x4
(using four lanes), and it uses a Phison PS5012
controller and 64-layer TLC (Triple-Level Cell/3-
bit) NAND. That turns out to be very good stuff.
The S70 is available in four flavors: the 1TB
version I tested (currently $120 on Amazon [go.
pcworld.com/ads7]), a 256GB model (currently
$40 on Amazon [go.pcworld.com/s256]), a