ADATA SX300 128GB mSATA SSD Review

Just a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to review an SSD by ADATA. the ADATA SX900 128GB. That drive offered excellent performance at a price point just above $100 — a worthy substitute to a more expensive drive that achieves similar results. Today in the spotlight is the younger sister to the ADATA SX900 series drives. Instead of using strictly SATA, ADATA has developed this device to provide a product for which people can finally dust off their mSATA ports and play with them for a while. The ADATA SX300 120GB is an mSATA hard drive, which provides a super easy way to add extra storage to your laptop or motherboard that supports it.

This review will feature a complete evaluation of the ADATA SX300 128GB mSATA SSD. I will review its physical appearance, cover its hardware, and present its performance results from a wide range of synthetic hard drive benchmarking tools. These results will provide a comparison between its performance and how it compares to other drives. I like the idea of mSATA because adding a second hard drive to a laptop or adding a caching drive on your desktop is super easy and can take as little as 30 seconds to install. In this review, I will be using it as a system drive operating on Windows 7. Let's get started first by taking a look at the drive, its packaging, its hardware.