ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB
The ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB costs $179.99 right now, or $0.180/GB, the lowest price per gigabyte of any ADATA LEGEND 960 capacity. Stepping up to the 2TB costs $286.28 more. It is rated for 780 TBW, about 430 GB of writes a day for 5 years.
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Where to buy the ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.
- Amazon$179.99
- Newegg$179.99
Price history
Lowest in the last 30 days: $179.99. Lowest in 60 days: $179.99.
Show the data as a table
| Date | Lowest price |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | $180 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | $180 |
Lowest in-stock price each day at Newegg and B&H, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $179.99 on Sep 19; latest $179.99. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.
Specifications
Speed (rated)
- Sequential read
- 7,400 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 6,000 MB/s
- Random read (4K)
- 730K IOPS
- Random write (4K)
- 610K IOPS
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x4
Endurance
- Rated writes
- 780 TBW
- Warranty
- 5 years
That is about 430 GB of writes a day for 5 years. A typical gaming PC writes a small fraction of that.
Drive
- Capacity
- 1TB
- Form factor
- M.2 2280
- NAND type
- TLC
- Cache
- DRAM cache
Identity
- Part number
- ALEG-960-1TCS
Does it fit a PS5?
Yes. It meets Sony's requirements: PCIe Gen4 or faster on four lanes, M.2, and at least 5,500 MB/s. Sony recommends adding a thin heatsink, which the PS5 slot has room for. Every drive that fits.
Quality score
How we score →Scored for a gaming PC from what the maker publishes: read speed against the level games are built around, capacity (under 1TB loses points), cache type, endurance per terabyte and warranty. Speed above the floor adds almost nothing.
Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 1TB NVMe SSDs: this drive costs $179.99/TB against a typical $211.30/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares NVMe SSDs with each other.
See every capacity of the ADATA LEGEND 960 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the NVMe SSDs table.
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