PCWorld – August 2019

AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 97

The results for the Addlink are stellar. The drive
isn’t quite on a par with its more expensive
rivals when it comes to real world copies, as
shown below, but it’s certainly in the ballpark.
AS SSD proved a major coup for the S70,
where it beat even the mighty Samsung 970
Pro in a couple of tests.
Performance simply isn’t an issue with the
S70 as it can be with some older bargain
drives, though thankfully, the days of NVMe
drives dropping to below-SATA speeds when
the cache runs out seem to be over.
My only caveat with the AddLink S70 is that
service and support are unknown quantities to
me at this point in time. I’ve had no dealings with
the company so I simply can’t say, though the
five-year warranty is two years longer than you

generally see in the low end of

the market. The TBW

(TeraBytes Written—the total

amount of data that a company

is willing to guarantee can be

written to the drive) ratings of

350/600/ 1200/2000 for the

256GB/ 512GB/1TB/2TB

drives, respectively, are quite

high as well.

BOTTOM LINE

I’m sure other drives will be

dropping in price soon, and

the vendors are not going to

be happy about it given the

already thin margins in the

SSD market. But vendor pain is your joy, and

as it stands now, you can save $30 or more

with the AddLink S70 without losing out in

performance. Even if it were merely priced

equally with the competition, I’d recommend

it. I consider the S70 a very nice introduction

to AddLink.

AddLink S70 NVMe SSD

PROS

• Super affordable.


• Excellent everyday performance.


• Five-year warranty.
  CONS


• Slows to “only” 1GBps during long writes.


• No information on quality of support and service.
  $119

4K Read

AS SSD 2.0 4K Performance

(10GB/MBps)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1,925

1,680

2,104

1,861

2,114

1,743

29

101

26

138

35

123

Samsung 970 Pro

AddLink S70 WD Black SN750

AS SSD had nice things to say about the S70 as well, though real-world
performances isn’t as good. Considering the price, we don’t care.

4K W(64 threads)rite

4K Read(64 threads)

4K Write