ADATA Legend 750 1TB review – snappy Gen. 3 NVMe with decently large SLC cache

Design

The ADATA Legend 750 1TB looks similar to most NVMe drives out there. As you may already guess, the length is 80mm so it’ll fit with ease in most modern laptops or desktop motherboards. The good news is that the heat spreader is not pre-applied so you can use your own third-party cooling solution and without the thin metal plate, this drive can be installed into an external enclosure (which is a great idea for a super-fast flash driver replacement). We have to warn you that once the heat spreader is already installed it’s a hard job to be removed. You have to use a plastic pry tool to gently unglue the thermal pad from the chips on the PCB. The backside of the devices houses a sticker with some additional info regarding the drive.

Below you can see pictures of the controller and the memory.