Package and its Contents
The S70 SSD arrived in a retail package. The package has been slightly modified since the drives premiere, but mainly with additional descriptions and confirmation about PS5 compatibility.
Inside the package, we will find an SSD and a thin aluminum heat sink. We won’t need anything else for the installation, and the ADATA SSD ToolBox mentioned on the previous page of this review is available for download from the ADATA website.
The installation is straightforward, so most users won’t have problems. If you still aren’t sure if you do it right then the best is to check the motherboard’s manual, as every popular brand has a manual for their sockets (with and without motherboard heatsinks.
The only real requirement for optimal performance is an M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 socket, but for the best results, we will need a motherboard with one of the latest AMD chipsets, as only then will we see 7.4GB/s or more. Intel chipsets offer around 7.1GB/s, while PS5 will be limited to around 6.3GB/s. It’s still not the most important as what counts the most for daily work are results in random read and the access time.
The SSD is black, including the PCB, all the chips, and the heatsink. On the heatsink, we will find the XPG logo and simplified graphics, which are white lines – suggesting a larger picture.
We will show you how the S70 SSD performs on the next page of this review.
