Final thoughts and rating
ADATA is a company that may not be overly-familiar to you yet it's large enough to manufacture SSDs for a number of high-profile customers in our comparison line-up. Looking to offer more than just a garden-variety 2.5in SSD, which everyone can do, ADATA pads out its catalogue with a range of mSATA drives
Pushing the mSATA performance envelope is the SX300 128GB, which is a premium SandForce SF-2281 drive neatly packaged to fit into a smaller form factor. Its vital statistics - 500MB/s sequential read and write - make for enviable reading, but the SX300's potential is stifled on today's desktop motherboards, where the SATA 3Gbps mSATA interface limits bandwidth.
ADATA really needs motherboard manufacturers to adopt SATA 6Gbps-interfacing mSATA ports before the SX300's performance promise is realised on the desktop. As it stands, the SX300 only makes sense as an upgrade solution for the notebook market, where the 6Gbps mSATA interface is fast becoming the norm.
The Good
Has incredible potential for an mSATA product
Could be a good upgrade for a laptop
Super-easy setup and usage
The Bad
Doesn't make a lot of sense in a desktop environment
Twice the price of an equivalent 2.5in SSD
HEXUS Rating
ADATA XPG SX300 mSATA 128GB
HEXUS Where2Buy
TBC.
HEXUS Right2Reply
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