AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 97The 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 ReadAS SSD 2.0 4K Performance
(10GB/MBps)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE1,9251,6802,1041,8612,1141,743291012613835123Samsung 970 ProAddLink S70 WD Black SN750AS 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)rite4K Read(64 threads)4K Write