14 DAY TRIAL // When it comes to the 2.5-inch form factor, solid-state drives reach 1 TB hard enough, but ADATA wanted to really leave people gaping, so it put together a variant of 2 TB that also communicates over SATA Express.
And not just any SATA Express technology, but the sort that can attain 20 Gbps transfer rates. The sort that no motherboard can actually reach yet.
Well, there are some M.2 SSDs that can reach that far, but this isn't an M.2 drive. So ADATA must be thinking of the future if it bothered enabling the sort of SATA Express that would need PCI Express 2.0 x4 lanes allocated to it.
As we said, the SSD in the picture above is a 2 TB storage device. That means it's probably expensive as sin. Oh well, it's not like Computex is a place where you go to peddle your junk.
If it was, ADATA wouldn't have bothered adding DDR4 RAM to the exhibition, and it probably wouldn't have squeezed in its MicroSSD and an SSD-on-a-chip solution (which is actually a multi-chip module, MCM for short, with an SSD controller and some NAND stuck together).
ADATA has decided to name its 2.5-inch SATA Express SSD the SR1020 series.
