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welcome to my unboxing and overview of the adata xpg 2 and 1/2 in SATA 3 6 gbit

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per second solo state drive this is their SX 900 this is a 128 gig SSD and

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that is exceptional for I don't have my

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keys on me that's okay I'll figure this out that is exceptional for one major

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reason and that is that this is a sand Forest drive so if you guys are familiar

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with sand Force drives already aha here we go I found a razor blade so if you

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guys are familiar with sand Force drives you probably know that they don't really

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come in 64 gig 128 gig and 256 gig

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capacities usually they come in 60 gig 120 gig and 240 gig capacities and the

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reason for that is that San Force drives have spare area so that capacity is on

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there Nan chips only come in certain C denominations of capacity that usually

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add up to you know 16 32 64 128 these

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are these are the natural capacities however a data oh right so sand Force

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drives usually have that area tucked away for a couple of reasons one is

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better performance over time so it gives it somewhere to swap data out to that's

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not really part of the The Logical partition that you have on the drive so

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it can speed things up a little bit and then number two is for better

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reliability because if Flash or if any

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of the cells die anywhere else on the SSD it can actually start to borrow from

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that spare area to increase the longevity of the drive so what ad had to

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do to release a 128 gig sandforce SSD

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was they had to use a higher quality of

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Bend nand so that gives you

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the well the extra reliability that you would need in order to not have any

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spare area so they've ped up with a three-year warranty they've got uh what

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else do they have on here sand Forest driven shock resistant it better be trim

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support it better have it acronis true image HD that's kind of cool to have so

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okay Norton Internet Security is sort of less relevant but having a chronis True

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Image HD is cool you just download it for free and you can use that in order

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to uh clone your current existing drive over to your new SSD it includes the

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mounting screws that you need as well as a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in desktop

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adapter finally you've got an SSD Quick Start guide as well as oh hold on this

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might have like a key on it or something in which case free software overview this release

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is compatible with XP Vista and Windows 7 and it just shows you what to do cool

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16 digit download key so yeah you just download it from the uh from the ad

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website all right so let's have a look at the SSD itself it has a pretty slick

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overall look so you've got your brushed uh brush Metal finish going on on the

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top as well as the sides it's looks very nice got like you know a label with some

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shiny gold going on uh you got all your usual mounting holes so it's going to

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work in your laptop as well as your desktop as long as you don't have you

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know a MacBook Air or something that uses uh like a KN a 2 and 1/2 in

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standard Drive warranty void if broken so you don't want to go opening this

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thing up and yeah there we did it we showed the acronis true Mage HD key

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there it is um whatever okay so thank you guys for checking out this unboxing

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and first look so the important things to take away from this are that ad data

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has delivered a higher capacity dve although the the extra there is extra

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cost associated with using a more reliable nand the extra cost

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should I'll compensate for the or you

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should be able to compensate for the extra cost with the extra capacity you

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get so you actually do get an extra 8 gigs of capacity which is about what 6

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and a half% or so thanks for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to

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