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
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