ADATA

ADATA Ultimate SU650 Spec and Price in the United States

Name: ADATA Ultimate SU650
Brand: ADATA

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.

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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

Configuration	Part number	Endurance (TBW)	Sequential write	Sequential read	Current best price	Price per TB
120GB	ASU650SS-120GT-R	70 TB	320 MB/s	520 MB/s	—	—
240GB	ASU650SS-240GT-R	140 TB	450 MB/s	520 MB/s	$66.96 at Newegg · captured 2026-09-15	$279.00/TB
480GB	ASU650SS-480GT-R	280 TB	450 MB/s	520 MB/s	—	—
960GB	ASU650SS-960GT-R	560 TB	450 MB/s	520 MB/s	$181.68 Price too old to confirm	—
1TB	ASU650SS-1TT-R	560 TB	450 MB/s	520 MB/s	$149.99 at Amazon.com · captured 2026-09-15	$149.99/TB
2TB	ASU650SS-2TT-R	1120 TB	450 MB/s	520 MB/s	$392.90 Price too old to confirm	—

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What owners and reviewers say

Summarised from 2 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.
Budget owners find it a large step up from a hard drive, with quicker boots and game load times.
Several owners consider it cheap for the capacity and a sensible pick for an older SATA laptop or desktop.
One owner reports much shorter game load times after moving console storage onto the drive in a USB enclosure.

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.
Multiple owners report units failing within months or after unusually light use, and one counted three failures across five builds.
Owners describe the manufacturer's warranty process as dated and cumbersome, requiring printed forms to be mailed in.
Some owners find it slower than the SSDs they compare it against at a similar price.

Sources behind this summary

goughlui.com — review
Newegg — 4 out of 5 (123 ratings), as of September 15, 2026

Sources

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

ADATA — data sheet (PDF)