Reviews - ADATA XPG SX300 128GB mSATA SSD

[HEXUS]

Tiny footprint, big potential.

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[Irien]

Possibly stupid question - the Z77 boards also support intel quick resume (or whatever it is called) which requires a RAM-sized partition on an SSD if memory serves. Could that be used with a SSD such as this, in conjunction with the Z77-caching feature? 64Gb for cache, 16Gb for ram-resume and the rest as "spare" for nand redundancy?

I could imagine a scenario where a SATA6G SSD is used as OS drive with a large data/games drive. The mSATA drive could cache the latter, and provide quick resume functionality without taking space away from the OS SSD.

Is that even a possible scenario?

[streetster]

Any clue on availability? I'd be after the 256Gb version as/when it becomes available in the UK...

Did you not have an ultrabook that you could use to benchmark this (at the SATA III rather than II)? It feels a bit unfair to be comparing II vs III.

... or perhaps a comparison to another mSATA drive? like the M4 from Crucial?

[streetster]

... hows about picking up one of these mSATA to SATA adaptors and re-running the benchmarks?