{"video_id":"CKT0u8rj2DM","title":"Adata XM13 mSATA Sandforce Caching SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":209,"segments":[{"start_s":7.399,"end_s":16.76,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the adata 60 gig MSA SSD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.759,"end_s":20.0,"text":"xm3 so this is as you guys can see a bit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.76,"end_s":23.0,"text":"smaller than a typical SSD so uh here's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.0,"end_s":25.16,"text":"a 2 and 1/2 in SSD for reference the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.0,"end_s":30.679,"text":"whole box is like the size of a regular SSD so what is this for if you don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.48,"end_s":36.2,"text":"have an MSA slot then it's not real relevant to you but if you do have 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does so you can throw this in on those as well so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":193.239,"end_s":199.68,"text":"this is going to become a more popular feature moving forward but if you want","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":197.4,"end_s":203.28,"text":"to be an early adopter then ad data and Gigabyte not this board some other board","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":201.68,"end_s":206.319,"text":"that you've never seen before might be the way to go don't forget to subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.92,"end_s":210.08,"text":"to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the adata 60 gig MSA SSD xm3 so this is as you guys can see a bit smaller than a typical SSD so uh here's a 2 and 1/2 in SSD for reference the whole box is like the size of a regular SSD so what is this for if you don't have an MSA slot then it's not real relevant to you but if you do have an MSA slot then it's very relevant to you stands to reason am I right there you go that's the whole size of the there's a whole SSD in there m SATA is basically a standard of SATA that takes the standard size connectors and makes them even smaller so it is actually here we're going to go get a SATA cable as well as a SATA power adapter of some sort there one pin for pin this is pretty much the same darn thing as s except that you can clearly see that that won't fit and then you can clearly see that this power cable is not going to fit see how the spacing is much wider in here can you see that then here so so cool okay so M ssds are great for very very small form factor low profile uh notebooks or netbooks great great for using as um you know a low density boot drive because this is only 60 gig mated ssds can only be so big because you've got only room for four flash chips on the whole drive itself so there's two over here as well as the controller so actually here I'm just going to peel that for a second it has a sand Force oh wow this is a sand Force controller Drive cool SF 2141 and then you've got four flash chips running off of it now it is all Al useful on the desktop for a certain particular application most people don't want a 60 gig boot Drive these days I think slick needs to sneeze so we'll just take a break so it's also useful on the desktop if your motherboard has an MSA slot just like this Gigabyte one right here does bam I just installed an SSD which is okay it's neat it's cool you know it's cool but it's mostly useful for Intel smart response technology so if you're on a platform that supports it that is z68 or or woo whatever platform this is that I don't know what it is because I might release this video before the Embargo date uh as long as it has a mini uh oops an MSA slot then you can uh cash your boot hard drive or even another hard drive maybe you have a separate hard drive a storage drive that you have steam installed with all of your games on you can set up your msat drive to cach that drive so whatever games you play most frequently will be cached in your SSD and the ones you don't use as much can stay on the bulk storage of your hard drive so that is a very cool way to use it as well things like shuttle barebones pces often include them I know their z68 one does so you can throw this in on those as well so this is going to become a more popular feature moving forward but if you want to be an early adopter then ad data and Gigabyte not this board some other board that you've never seen before might be the way to go don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}