Adata Atom 50 SSD: Affordable with excellent performance
The Adata Atom 50 is one of the more affordable PCIe 4 SSDs on the market, which would seemingly make it a nice option for the PlayStation 5. It’s second-tier over PCIe 4, according to synthetic benchmarks, but it tied for first place in our real-world 48GB transfers—an eye-opening performance considering the price.
Even more impressive, the Atom 50 managed that feat without a DRAM cache. It instead utilizes HMB (Host Memory Bus, aka your computer’s RAM) primary caching, a technology says the PS5 doesn’t support HMB, which means the Atom 50 may not be quite as fast inside that console.
