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ADATA Ultimate SU650 Spec and Price in the United States

SATA1TB2.5-inch520 MB/s read

Entry-level and SATA-bound, the Ultimate SU650 tops out around 520/450 MB/s at 1TB capacity, a fraction of the 7,400 MB/s ADATA's own Gammix S70 Blade reaches on PCIe 4.0. Its 560TB TBW rating lands ahead of Kioxia's SATA drive on endurance but behind Crucial's BX500, at 720TB, in the same 2.5-inch SATA class. The three-year warranty and modest throughput mark it as a basic OS-and-programs drive for light everyday use.

Tied 104th of 106 models in the SSD catalog on Sequential read — 2 models share this figure. 105th of 106 models in the SSD catalog on Sequential write.

Current best price
From $66.96at Newegg · captured 2026-09-15 · $279.00/TBView at Newegg

Prices exclude sales tax.

Captured periodically and may have changed.

Price history

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March 19, 2026102 capturestoday · $149.99

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Specifications

Capacity
1TB
Interface
SATA
Sequential read
520 MB/s
Sequential write
450 MB/s
Form factor
2.5-inch
Endurance (TBW)
560 TB
Warranty
3 years

Capacities

ConfigurationPart numberEndurance (TBW)Sequential writeSequential readCurrent best pricePrice per TB
120GBASU650SS-120GT-R70 TB320 MB/s520 MB/s——
240GBASU650SS-240GT-R140 TB450 MB/s520 MB/s
$66.96

at Newegg · captured 2026-09-15

$279.00/TB
480GBASU650SS-480GT-R280 TB450 MB/s520 MB/s——
960GBASU650SS-960GT-R560 TB450 MB/s520 MB/s

$181.68

Price too old to confirm

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1TBASU650SS-1TT-R560 TB450 MB/s520 MB/s
$149.99

at Amazon.com · captured 2026-09-15

$149.99/TB
2TBASU650SS-2TT-R1120 TB450 MB/s520 MB/s

$392.90

Price too old to confirm

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What owners and reviewers say

Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 14, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices

Commonly praised

  • Reviewers found it a cost-optimised value SATA drive that readily beats a hard drive for everyday use.
  • It uses TLC NAND rather than QLC, which should aid data retention and endurance.
  • It saturates the SATA interface for reads and adds very little to laptop power draw.

Commonly criticised

  • Write performance depends heavily on pSLC caching and collapses to roughly 60-80MB/s once the drive is filled.
  • It carries no DRAM cache and ADATA does not offer its SSD toolbox for the model.

Sources behind this summary

Sources

Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.