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what's up guys you're watching Jays two cents your one-stop place of learning how to tweak and build and upgrade your PC and with keeping that tradition alive we're gonna go ahead and take a look today at the a data xpg SX 900 solid-state drive this thing is pretty cool so let's go ahead and dive in and take a look if you're like me when it comes to upgrading your PC or building or just getting anything new you want to tear into the box and throw it aside and generally I would do that but for the sake of educational purposes we're gonna go ahead and take a look at what's printed on the box because it puts the most important information about this SSD right here where you can see it first off it does have smart command support not all hard drives on the market have smart support and having that smart utilization built in gives you the ability to talk to your hard drive and learn a lot about what's going on and when it comes to SSDs it's pretty important because it lets you know everything that's going on with your drive so this definitely supports smart support for controller this is driven by sand force there are other kinds of controllers on the market Marvel for instance this is a sand force drive it does have shock resistance built in it has trimmed support and it's got the Acronis True Image HD and what that does is it allows you to copy your current hard drive or SSD or whatever it may be over to this one without having to reinstall all your programs or windows or any of that we're gonna definitely be testing that feature as it's going to be going into my main system right here on the back of the box it tells you what comes included it is a two and a half inch SSD but it does have built-in ECC and wear leveling technology so what that means is that it's gonna constantly move data around as you're reading and writing to give you maximum life on this drive if you're not familiar with how SSDs work they're basically like memory chips built into the hard drive rather than having a moving disk or a rotating disk in there and the lifespan is based on read/write of each individual chip and module so what this does is it keeps the information nice and spread out so that you don't what portions of the drive prematurely so it keeps things nice and level not only does it include the migration software it also includes the three and a half inch bracket in case you have a case that doesn't support a two and a half inch drive you can use a three and a half inch adapter and mount this anywhere you could put a standard sized hard drive now when it comes to read speed it is up to five hundred and fifty megabytes per second for documents and up to five hundred and ten megabytes per second for multimedia data and for the write speed you have up to five hundred and thirty megabytes for documents and up to three hundred and twenty megabytes for multimedia that's pretty fast and it's a lot faster than the M for them getting ready to replace this is gonna be a pretty simple unboxing so we're gonna go ahead and do that right now it's just got these two little seals over here break that this is unopened we're opening this together for the first time right here on J's two cents and I am not the most graceful unboxer in the world but I get the job done I can get in the box alright so when you pull it out this is what you're greeted with here the SSD is sitting in a plastic tray you have your QuickStart guide right here which is going to talk all about getting it mounted into your computer it's gonna have C this is gonna be in here it's got a million different languages on here but it's got your start Drive your handling precautions and how to install it and all of that and you have your drive right here it is a brushed metal drive it's pretty cool-looking actually I do like that it's this brushed black I actually thought it was greatest on the pictures but this is brushed black which is actually gonna look really good in my case even though you can't really see it as you can see that I did go I did get a 256 gigabyte model which is a step up from 128 gig but I currently have you have this little bracket right here I'm not entirely too sure what that's for wat to take a look at that together you have the three-and-a-half inch adapter here which is kind of a purpley color interestingly enough go ahead tear that open a look real quick so it's like a a violet color which is kind of strange I would think that they would have made that black but whatever I digress it's I guess if you're into that color and that's pretty much it so what I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna do some investigation here on how we use their migration software we're gonna go ahead and migrate my current Windows installation over to this drive to see how well the software works and whether or not it's flawless or not and just how easy it is and then we'll get into some benchmarking and see just how fast this drive really is okay real quickly when it comes to the migration software the way it works is there's a little bit of a there's a little folded up document in here that tells you exactly what to do it gives you a address for you to go to a web URL that you go and you download the software and then what they've done is on the back of each SSD and I'm gonna cover mine up but under my finger here is a sticker with a serial key on there or a authentication key for the Acronis ati HD 2013 migration software so that's how you do it there's a sticker on here with a key you download the software you put in your reboot you turn off your computer obviously you install your drive and then you let the migration utility do its thing so we're gonna go ahead and do that now and when we come back the drive will be installed and we'll go ahead and see how well that migration utility actually works I've got the SSD installed it is really really fast and I've got to say that when it comes to using the utility for migrating the data over to the new hard drive from whatever hard drive you currently have whether it be a hard drive or an SSD or whatever it may be was very very painless it was flawless it worked perfectly and there was absolutely no issues using that whatsoever well I think that back my mouse wouldn't work in the little utility thing but the keyboard did and everything was fine so there's really no complaints there who knows why that was but whatever it was now let's go ahead and talk about the speed of this drive I used three different well two different utilities to actually benchmark this and then I loaded up battlefield 3 as a little speed test on loading of the game now the first drive I'm gonna show you here is my crucial m4 and that was a 282 megabyte per second read speed and 188 megabyte per second write speed this a data this xpg SX 900 is advertised as I mentioned at 550 read for documents 510 read for multimedia and 530 write for documents - 324 multimedia and we got speeds that are pretty much as advertised I mean we got 494 megabytes per second read speed as the drive was being used as the operating system so and about 50% utilization on this but you can see we got 494 megabytes per second read speed 330 byte 330 megabytes per second write speed in multimedia and now just to kind of cross-reference that with another benchmark here I used DX stories there little utility for measuring how fast it can write to the drive when it comes to capturing games game capture and stuff we have as you can see here 169 megabytes per second on the m4 which is the bottom drive there 322 megabytes per second right speed on the a data and that hundred and thirteen that you see there is a 7200 rpm mechanical Drive to kind of give you some ideas of how fast this drive really is so there you have it guys if you if you're looking for an inexpensive SSD that comes in at a pretty good price that right about eighty cents per gigabyte this is a great great bargain it looks good if it's gonna be on this place somewhere where you can see it the speeds on it are not the fastest on the market but they're definitely very competitive they're very good Windows boots for me in about twelve to fifteen seconds and that's from the point at which you see the splash screen for your motherboard go away a lot of people like to measure their you know boot time from the moment they push power but every motherboard boots at a different speed so it's about twelve seconds once you see the windows logo pop up really really fast and battlefield loaded in under thirty seconds in 64 player maps that is just really awesome this is gonna be my new main drive here on the the big black and yellow case yeah system that I have here and guys if you've enjoyed this video you know what to do if you're looking for an SSD this season definitely give a data look there a product that I think performs really really well at a price that's not gonna break your bank and of course are available anywhere from 64 gigs up to 500 gigabytes and there is a lot of Technology in this drive when it comes to migration when it comes to level when they call it level we're we're level technology where it keeps the drive operating as long as possible it's got smart technology so it's definitely worth taking a look at guys I'm gonna get on out of here thanks for watching this video and as always I will see you when I see you in my next video take care