ADATA SX900 SSD Unboxing and... Teaser...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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the Corsair carbide air 540 High airflow Cube case is great for air cooling or
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liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more welcome
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to an unboxing that's actually more of a teaser for some upcoming content that we
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have planned this is the adata sx900 2
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and 1 12 in SATA 3 6 GB per second solid state drive it has ncq smart command
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queuing compatible with state of 3 gbit per second it is optimized for ahci mode
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and it will run in raid which has something to do with
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this more on that in a moment okay okay back to this back to this okay uh sand
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Force driven so it uses a sand Force controller so that means it is very
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optimized for client type workloads where you a lot of the data that you
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work with on a day-to-day basis is going to be compressible as opposed to
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non-compressible so it uses Advanced algorithms in the SSD itself in order to
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not only make it operate faster than the controller or faster than the nand flash
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itself could operate if it was just writing to it on its own but it also
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increases the lifetime of it because it actually commits fewer rights to the Nan
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so remember every SSD has a built-in maximum overall life cycle that it will
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eventually wear out in in San Force drives particularly if you work with a
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lot of compressible data will last longer than another equally built SSD
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it's shock resistant just like all ssds supports trim and comes with a cronis TR
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image HD which is actually one of the better uh one of the better cloning
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applications out out there that we've used as far as included ones with ssds
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go so kudos to a data for using that all
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right accessories it includes a spacer because it uses a 7 mm form factor so if
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you have a a laptop that's only compatible with 9 and2 mil you can go
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ahead and install dat spacer on there it includes a 3 and 1/2 in desktop adapter
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with a data branding on it also has like kind of some texture on it so maybe it's
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uh you know reinforced or something there you go so that'll make it
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compatible with your desktop and has a beautiful brushed black finish on it I
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actually really like that it looks very striking so there's a SATA 3 6 GB per
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second interface on the back and it is made in Taiwan and apparently someone
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gets a an acronis True Image HD key good job you get that now so what are we
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going to be doing what why do we need four of them we are going to be doing a
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test on the Z87 platform where we take
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these ssds and run one two and this is
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where the maximum would have been before on z77 cuz there were only two Intel
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native SATA 36 GB pers second ports so we're going to try 1 2 3 and four drives
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in raid zero to see where the benefit
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actually tapers off in terms of uh of
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how many drives you can keep adding to a raid zero before you run into a
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bottleneck that is between the actual SATA chip set itself and the rest of the
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system whereas because I mean remember you can have as many SATA 3 6 gbit per
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second ports as you want but if you're actually flooding them all with data at
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the same time then there might be another internal bottleneck somewhere
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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
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setup guide which is really simple but hey it's helpful to have video guides
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for pretty much anything I like following along with them thank you for
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checking out this unboxing and teaser don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech
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tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos don't forget to like this video if you like what we're
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going to be doing with these drives and don't forget to leave a comment if you
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have any other suggestions for for what we could do with four
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256 gig ssds that's actually something
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else that's unique about these drives is they don't overr provision as much
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normally you'd find a 240 gig San Force drive and these are the full 256 so you
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do have to use a higher quality nand if you don't want to over-provision as much
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and remember guys that over-provisioning is something that you can do manually
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simply by creating a 240 gig partition on this drive so it gives you the
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flexibility to Short Stroke it or or
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over provision it yourself if you want to or use the whole capacity if you do
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prefer