welcome to my unboxing and overview of the adata xpg 2 and 1/2 in SATA 3 6 gbit
per second solo state drive this is their SX 900 this is a 128 gig SSD and
that is exceptional for I don't have my
keys on me that's okay I'll figure this out that is exceptional for one major
reason and that is that this is a sand Forest drive so if you guys are familiar
with sand Force drives already aha here we go I found a razor blade so if you
guys are familiar with sand Force drives you probably know that they don't really
come in 64 gig 128 gig and 256 gig
capacities usually they come in 60 gig 120 gig and 240 gig capacities and the
reason for that is that San Force drives have spare area so that capacity is on
there Nan chips only come in certain C denominations of capacity that usually
add up to you know 16 32 64 128 these
are these are the natural capacities however a data oh right so sand Force
drives usually have that area tucked away for a couple of reasons one is
better performance over time so it gives it somewhere to swap data out to that's
not really part of the The Logical partition that you have on the drive so
it can speed things up a little bit and then number two is for better
reliability because if Flash or if any
of the cells die anywhere else on the SSD it can actually start to borrow from
that spare area to increase the longevity of the drive so what ad had to
do to release a 128 gig sandforce SSD
was they had to use a higher quality of
Bend nand so that gives you
the well the extra reliability that you would need in order to not have any
spare area so they've ped up with a three-year warranty they've got uh what
else do they have on here sand Forest driven shock resistant it better be trim
support it better have it acronis true image HD that's kind of cool to have so
okay Norton Internet Security is sort of less relevant but having a chronis True
Image HD is cool you just download it for free and you can use that in order
to uh clone your current existing drive over to your new SSD it includes the
mounting screws that you need as well as a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in desktop
adapter finally you've got an SSD Quick Start guide as well as oh hold on this
might have like a key on it or something in which case free software overview this release
is compatible with XP Vista and Windows 7 and it just shows you what to do cool
16 digit download key so yeah you just download it from the uh from the ad
website all right so let's have a look at the SSD itself it has a pretty slick
overall look so you've got your brushed uh brush Metal finish going on on the
top as well as the sides it's looks very nice got like you know a label with some
shiny gold going on uh you got all your usual mounting holes so it's going to
work in your laptop as well as your desktop as long as you don't have you
know a MacBook Air or something that uses uh like a KN a 2 and 1/2 in
standard Drive warranty void if broken so you don't want to go opening this
thing up and yeah there we did it we showed the acronis true Mage HD key
there it is um whatever okay so thank you guys for checking out this unboxing
and first look so the important things to take away from this are that ad data
has delivered a higher capacity dve although the the extra there is extra
cost associated with using a more reliable nand the extra cost
should I'll compensate for the or you
should be able to compensate for the extra cost with the extra capacity you
get so you actually do get an extra 8 gigs of capacity which is about what 6
and a half% or so thanks for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to
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