Apacer ProII Series-AS510S AP256GAS510SB 256 GB

net benefit

Apacer AS510S Pro II is one of the cheapest solid state drives with durable MLC memory (withstands three times more rewrite cycles than TLC) in east european retail. While other MLC models cost almost twice as much as TLC, Apacer costs only a third. It turns out downright SSD meta? Let's look "under the hood" and figure out what's the catch.

Consistently fast

Inside the metal casing of the AS510S Pro II are indeed the most genuine MLC flash memory chips. And this means that this SSD has a consistently high, by the standards of the SATA interface, the speed of not only sequential reading (530 MB / s), but also sequential writing (520 MB / s). Of course, there is no virtual SLC cache from the triple amount of free disk space, and as a result of drawdowns in write speed after it is full. This is another advantage of MLC over TLC, in addition to durability.

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Another thing is that the memory, although MLC, is old, still planar (2D) — manufactured by Micron. She, like the Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller, has a low read and write speed of 4K blocks by modern standards. Simply put, the AS510S Pro II processes small files of the operating system and programs more slowly than a solid TLC SSD. Even a 256 MB cache from RAM doesn't help much.

For video editors, not programmers

As a result, we can recommend Apacer AS510S Pro II to those who often have to overwrite large files at work — these are, first of all, video editors. But programmers working with databases should opt for a modern TLC SSD on the SM2256 controller and fast IMFT (Intel-Micron joint venture) 3D memory, such as the Apacer AS340.