Adata XM13 mSATA Sandforce Caching SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the adata 60 gig MSA SSD
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xm3 so this is as you guys can see a bit
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smaller than a typical SSD so uh here's
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a 2 and 1/2 in SSD for reference the
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whole box is like the size of a regular SSD so what is this for if you don't
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have an MSA slot then it's not real relevant to you but if you do have an
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MSA slot then it's very relevant to you
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stands to reason am I right there you go that's the whole size of the there's a
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whole SSD in there m SATA is basically a
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standard of SATA that takes the standard size connectors and
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makes them even smaller so it is actually here we're going to go get a
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SATA cable as well as a SATA power
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adapter of some sort there one pin for pin this is pretty
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much the same darn thing as s except that you can clearly see that that won't
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fit and then you can clearly see that this power cable is not going to fit see
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how the spacing is much wider in here can you see that then
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here so so cool okay so M ssds are great
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for very very small form factor low profile uh notebooks or netbooks great
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great for using as um you know a low
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density boot drive because this is only 60 gig mated ssds can only be so big
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because you've got only room for four
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flash chips on the whole drive itself so there's two over here as well as the
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controller so actually here I'm just going to peel that for a second it has a
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sand Force oh wow this is a sand Force controller Drive cool SF
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2141 and then you've got four flash chips running off of it now it is all Al
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useful on the desktop for a certain particular application most people don't
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want a 60 gig boot Drive these days I think slick needs to sneeze so we'll
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just take a break so it's also useful on the desktop if your motherboard has an
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MSA slot just like this Gigabyte one
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right here does bam I just installed an SSD which is okay it's neat it's cool
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you know it's cool but it's mostly useful for Intel smart response
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technology so if you're on a platform that supports it that is z68 or or woo
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whatever platform this is that I don't know what it is because I might release
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this video before the Embargo date uh as long as it has a mini uh
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oops an MSA slot then you can uh cash
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your boot hard drive or even another hard drive maybe you have a separate
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hard drive a storage drive that you have steam installed with all of your games
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on you can set up your msat drive to
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cach that drive so whatever games you play most frequently will be cached in your SSD and the ones you don't use as
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much can stay on the bulk storage of your hard drive so that is a very cool
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way to use it as well things like shuttle barebones pces often include
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them I know their z68 one does so you can throw this in on those as well so
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this is going to become a more popular feature moving forward but if you want
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to be an early adopter then ad data and Gigabyte not this board some other board
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