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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
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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