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in the video description to learn more welcome to an unboxing that's actually more of a teaser for some upcoming content that we have planned this is the adata sx900 2 and 1 12 in SATA 3 6 GB per second solid state drive it has ncq smart command queuing compatible with state of 3 gbit per second it is optimized for ahci mode and it will run in raid which has something to do with this more on that in a moment okay okay back to this back to this okay uh sand Force driven so it uses a sand Force controller so that means it is very optimized for client type workloads where you a lot of the data that you work with on a day-to-day basis is going to be compressible as opposed to non-compressible so it uses Advanced algorithms in the SSD itself in order to not only make it operate faster than the controller or faster than the nand flash itself could operate if it was just writing to it on its own but it also increases the lifetime of it because it actually commits fewer rights to the Nan so remember every SSD has a built-in maximum overall life cycle that it will eventually wear out in in San Force drives particularly if you work with a lot of compressible data will last longer than another equally built SSD it's shock resistant just like all ssds supports trim and comes with a cronis TR image HD which is actually one of the better uh one of the better cloning applications out out there that we've used as far as included ones with ssds go so kudos to a data for using that all right accessories it includes a spacer because it uses a 7 mm form factor so if you have a a laptop that's only compatible with 9 and2 mil you can go ahead and install dat spacer on there it includes a 3 and 1/2 in desktop adapter with a data branding on it also has like kind of some texture on it so maybe it's uh you know reinforced or something there you go so that'll make it compatible with your desktop and has a beautiful brushed black finish on it I actually really like that it looks very striking so there's a SATA 3 6 GB per second interface on the back and it is made in Taiwan and apparently someone gets a an acronis True Image HD key good job you get that now so what are we going to be doing what why do we need four of them we are going to be doing a test on the Z87 platform where we take these ssds and run one two and this is where the maximum would have been before on z77 cuz there were only two Intel native SATA 36 GB pers second ports so we're going to try 1 2 3 and four drives in raid zero to see where the benefit actually tapers off in terms of uh of how many drives you can keep adding to a raid zero before you run into a bottleneck that is between the actual SATA chip set itself and the rest of the system whereas because I mean remember you can have as many SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports as you want but if you're actually flooding them all with data at the same time then there might be another internal bottleneck somewhere else on the board so we're going to find out when we reach that limit and we'll also be using them to do a raid zero setup guide which is really simple but hey it's helpful to have video guides for pretty much anything I like following along with them thank you for checking out this unboxing and teaser don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos don't forget to like this video if you like what we're going to be doing with these drives and don't forget to leave a comment if you have any other suggestions for for what we could do with four 256 gig ssds that's actually something else that's unique about these drives is they don't overr provision as much normally you'd find a 240 gig San Force drive and these are the full 256 so you do have to use a higher quality nand if you don't want to over-provision as much and remember guys that over-provisioning is something that you can do manually simply by creating a 240 gig partition on this drive so it gives you the flexibility to Short Stroke it or or over provision it yourself if you want to or use the whole capacity if you do prefer"}