 The Jazz Mini is a beautiful and compact aluminum stand for your smartphone that even holds tablets up to 8 inches. Click now to learn more. To begin with, this is an SSD update and discussion about the practice of rebranding products as much as it is an overview of the ADATA SP920 SSD. So let's get into why this product exists. If you're like me and you've been like amped about third generation SandForce drives since they were shown off at Computex 2013 by ADATA no less, then you'll be disappointed to know that despite ADATA's close relationship with SandForce, this isn't a SandForce 3000 series drive and we'll have to wait a little bit longer for that. But that doesn't mean it's a bad product. It's not the first time we've seen SSD manufacturers source different controller technology and NAND to make sure that their products stay competitive. I mean heck, even Intel has done it. So ADATA went shopping and the SP920 actually ended up using mostly the same internal guts as the brand new performance drive from Crucial, the M550. So at the core of the SP920 is a Marvell 9189 controller with a Crucial design firmware and either 8 or 16 chips soldered to the PCB that feature Micron's state of the art high density 20 nanometer 128 gigabit NAND flash. Also present is a cluster of capacitors on the PCB that handle flushing data from the RAM cache to the non-volatile NAND flash in the event of an unexpected power loss. This is a feature that is traditionally more common on enterprise drives where an unexpected power loss is actually much less likely to occur, so it's great to see it implemented on a consumer drive as well. Now the choice of M550 hardware enables ADATA to deliver a great set of features at a very competitive price point with solid performance. You get trim and active garbage collection, you get AES-250 6-bit hardware encryption with support for Microsoft eDrive, and I mean you get like smart and adaptive thermal monitoring protection, all that good stuff, but couldn't you just as easily get all this by buying a Crucial M550 directly? Why does this product exist? Let's talk frankly about rebrands for a moment. What's good and what's bad about them? First the good things. One, is when they offer some kind of a tangible value add like a longer warranty or better accessories. Number two, is that it's easy to find information on this drive and evaluate its usefulness for your needs because you can go and look at a review of one of the equivalent ones even if a site you like hasn't reviewed this exact one. Number three, is that more competition does drive aggressive pricing for consumers. And number four, is that you get long-term support for the product that is in essence backed by a very large company with a vested interest in keeping each and every customer happy. I mean an example of this is something like a laptop. If like eMachines doesn't invest the R&D to keep giving you graphics card driver updates for your budget desktop, it's okay because ultimately it's an Nvidia graphics card and they're going to support it in the long term anyway. But what about the bad stuff? And it causes confusion because there are so many options a customer doesn't know what to buy. I see that as potentially harmful but many others would argue that more competition is always better. So that ties into one of the positive points. Number two, is when a rebrand ends up being slightly different in a way that's not very well documented. In this case, ADATA didn't do a particularly good job of calling out that their 128 gig and 256 gig models don't perform as well as the higher capacity ones or the crucial M550 equivalents at that capacity. Review sites have performance numbers for each capacity broken down but ADATA site only lists the one terabyte drive. This difference in performance is honestly something that the average person wouldn't notice without benchmarking the drive and it's due to the use of fewer higher density flash chips instead of more lower density chips. And it saves a bit of cost but also reduces the drive sequential write and read speeds. So I see it as something that should have been called out very, very clearly. But the bottom line is, should you buy the SP920? And the conclusion comes down to this. Power loss protection and class leading encryption support make this drive a super safe place to put your data. And the SP920, while not the best performing drive on the market, is extremely price competitive. Compared directly with its twin brother, the M550, ADATA delivers the same 7mm to 9mm adapter and 3 year warranty but throws in a Kronos migration software as a key on the back of the drive and a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch adapter, something that crucial doesn't even offer in a kit anymore. So two thumbs up for those things. Guys, like and share this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it, and leave a comment on the Linus Tech Tips forum linked in the video description if you want to discuss this product or you have constructive criticism for me and my team. Also linked in the video description is a where to buy link for this product, a support link with options to buy t-shirts from us, give us a monthly contribution or give us a kickback whenever you buy random junk on Amazon. And we'd love it if you guys check that out. If you enjoy our videos, it helps us out a whole bunch. 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