The well-known manufacturer NEEDLE has just announced the launch of its new Legend 970 Pro SSD Drive high-end, an SSD with interface PCIe 5.0 offering a theoretical performance of up to 14 GB/s readingalthough the write speed remains at 11 GB/s. This is the umpteenth PCIe 5.0 SSD with these characteristics to hit the market, designed for next-generation high-performance PCs.
The truth is that when the PCIe 5.0 interface for SSDs began to be available, there were very few compatible devices, and when we say very few, we could barely find 2 or 3 models in stores. It took a long time to establish itself, but today there are many more options on the market, although the problem remains that its price remains at almost prohibitive levels.
The ADATA Legend 970 Pro is not just another SSD
When a manufacturer sends us a press release announcing the launch of a new product, as is the case here, in its text it always highlights it, claiming that it is the best of the best, with cutting-edge technologies and empirical studies. data that breaks all records. The reality is quite different, and after reading the press release, what we personally see is that it is a PCIe 5.0 SSD that really has nothing special… except for one small detail.
And if you look at the image we placed above this paragraph, you will notice that a small fan is hidden in the two openings at the top of the heat sink. In fact, the ADATA Legend 970 Pro is an SSD with an integrated heat sink, but it integrates active cooling that, unlike the PCIe 5.0 SSDs with fans currently on the market, no power cord needed to operate, but instead takes the voltage it needs from the M.2 connector itself.
And this is the biggest and really the only difference compared to other SSDs with similar characteristics, is that it has a fan and you don’t need to connect a cable to a PWM port on the motherboard. According to the manufacturer, the combination of its aluminum heatsink, thermal pads and fan allows the SSD to always run at an adequate temperature, although they have not provided empirical data on the temperature, they only say that it runs 20% cooler than the others.
Otherwise, it’s a typical SSD; speeds of up to 14GB/s read and 11GB/s write, 232-layer 3D NAND flash chips, and will be sold in capacities up to 4TB. They also mention that it has increased durability, but again, they don’t even say how many TBW it can hold (we really don’t understand why they’re sending you such a boring press release without any concrete data).
Finally, the manufacturer stated that this SSD has a 5-year limited warranty, but it did not even communicate its availability date in stores or its price, although we have already told you that given what we have seen, it is going to be quite expensive.
