The ADATA LEGEND 960 MAX is a new SSD announced by the Taiwanese manufacturer. High-performance, high-capacity SSD for desktops for gaming or creation, as well as for consoles such as PS5 or Xbox Series X/S.

You already know that the new processor platforms from Intel and AMD (Rocket Lake or ZEN 4) opened the door to a new generation of SSDs with PCIe 5.0 support. The catalog of Gen4 versions continues to grow as it awaits manufacturer encouragement to bring them to market.

The new ADATA model uses the standard M.2 2280 format, which is characterized by the inclusion of a aluminum alloy casing visually attractive, which provides additional surface area to improve heat dissipation and thus improve cooling, which the manufacturer estimates to be 40% compared to previous models.

Its performance level with sequential read/write data transfer 7400 / 6800 MB per second and random speeds of 750,000 / 630,000 IOPS, it’s a high number, but nothing we haven’t already seen in high-end SSDs that use the PCIe 4 interface and the NVMe 1.4 protocol.

Of greater interest is the built-in SLC cache (which not all SSDs include), low-density parity check code (LDPC), 256-bit AES encryption technology, and a 5-year manufacturer’s warranty.

No price has been announced for this ADATA LEGEND 960 MAX, which will soon hit the market with storage capacities ranging from 1 to 4TB. The manufacturer supplies the series in slimmer variants of the LEGEND 960, which can be mounted in ultralight notebooks.

Another good solution, but advanced users who want a jump in performance level will have to wait for the next Gen5, which promised 13,000 Mbytes per second. Of course, if you’re still using hard drives, you’ll upgrade to an SSD, even if it’s Gen3 or even SATA, it’s been a while.