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Corsair's Raptor line of quality gaming peripherals has the features you need to

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win at a price you'll like click now to learn

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more welcome to my long overdue unboxing

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of one of the most important ssds on the market this is the 840 Evo it is not the

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fastest SSD it's not the cheapest SSD

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but what it is is the complete package it's available in pretty much any Capac

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City 12250 5750 and 1 tbte they are all reasonably

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aggressively priced and because of some unique features that Samsung's

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implemented extremely competitive performance-wise in spite of the very

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middling hardware specs so that's a bold claim lineus why would you say that and

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the answer will come later on in the video after you sit and listen to me

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talk about other stuff so first up hardware specs they have Shrunk the

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manufacturing process down to we think 19 nanometer but they're calling it 1X

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class nanometers which means that prices have come down versus the last

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generation product they are still using TLC Nan flash so that is 3 bit Percell

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mlc flash making the data densities

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higher than what other guys who are using 2 bit percel mlc even in their

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entry-level drives are using but because Samsung has made some changes to their

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already excellent MDX controller so it's now the Mex Three core controller they

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are able to achieve great performance in spite of the inherently much slower

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right speeds that TLC flash has to work with so it's also got SATA 3.1 over SATA

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3 on the last generation product and they've added Hardware AES 256

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encryption so that's basically there see there's a code on the back of this drive

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so that's basically a way to make it so someone's completely locked out of your

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drive unless they're willing to completely erase it so you can secure your data even from theft in the event

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that someone actually gets your drive and they can't even put it in anywhere else and unlock it so endurance is of

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course the big thing people talk about with TLC flash because not only does it

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write slower it also doesn't write as many times every SSD will die it

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actually has a rated number of rights that will eventually kill it now most

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ssds will actually last much longer than that rated right speed and you can see

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they've done some extreme testing over on Extreme systems go figure they do extreme testing there I just don't think

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it's that important even if it didn't last any longer than the rated number of

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right Cycles you look at an excellent comparison by a NCH so that'll be linked

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in the video description huge a NCH fanboy over here if you guys didn't already know that they estimate that

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even with a very aggressive workload these drives which are the consumer

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grade drives are going to be lasting for

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years depending on the capacity now the larger the capacity of the drive the

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longer it's going to last to the point where you're looking at drives that are probably going to last for decades or

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die from some other reason rather than die from being written to too many times

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and it should also be noted that ssds are much less likely to be damaged by

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shock or any other kind of phys physical

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you know demise that hard drives can meet because they don't have any moving

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parts now let's get into that bold claim that I made about why this drive which

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has TLC flash you know a faster clocked Three core controller 400 MHz versus 300

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MHz and you know otherwise isn't that

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special is the drive to beat and three things turbo Rite rapid and their new

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data migration to software so what turbo Rite is is a way of taking part of the

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storage on the drive and it varies according to the Capac capity of your particular drive it goes up as you have

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more capacity and takes part of that TLC Flash and runs it in SLC mode so if

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you're not familiar with SLC that means only one bit per cell all right so

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that's even potentially faster than mlc back when that was the performance and

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long endurance one in mlc was the redheaded stepchild whereas now it's

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high performance mlc and then TLC as the one that is you know perceived as less

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reliable and slower so what that means is that when the drive gets written to

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it fills up that that SLC behaving cash

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first then distributes that data to the rest of the drive at its Leisure that

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means that in real world terms the drive is faster unless you're doing a very

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long sustained right to it now reads are still fine on TLC flash so turbo Rite

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has pretty much no drawback in a day-to-day usage scenario which is very

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very cool you can enable it using Samsung's SSD magician software it's

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very fast very low latency but it does rely a again on non-continuous use so

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again I'm in a non-tech fanboy guys and you can check out their excellent

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article on turbo right which is linked in the video description as well next up

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is rapid which stands for fast no actually it stands for Real Time

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accelerated processing of IO Data and

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what rapid does is it allows you to take a gig of your Dam so that is your system

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memory and use that to cach the SSD now this one I'm not quite sure if I feel as

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you know uh completely POS POS about as I do about turbo Rite because it caches

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not only reads but also wrs which means that if your system does lose power in

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the middle of it caching something into memory this is not the same as caching

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to SLC flash which is still going to be there when the system reboots and the

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power goes down memory is cleared when the power goes out so it can cause data

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corruption but if you're running on a laptop or anything else that has a

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battery backup such as a desktop with a UPS and your system's very stable I

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wouldn't worry about it too too much so what it does is it takes up to a gig of

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your system memory and allows it to operate many times faster than even the

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fastest SSD can because it is effectively reading and writing out of

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RAM it's not the same as a RAM dis implementation because it's all

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completely uh it's all completely automated unlike RAM disk software which

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often requires a lot of manual intervention the next one up is data

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migration 2 so what that allows you to do is say okay well I bought this new

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SSD but I could only afford a 250 gig SSD and quite frankly the hard drive

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that I bought like four years ago is already 500 gigs and I've got all this

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data on it what am I supposed to do if I migrate it over what am I are all my

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videos and photos and songs just lost in The Ether the answer is no what data

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migration 2 does is it allows you to specify two Targets so you can clone

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your OS and all the important programs and stuff over to an SSD and then you

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can have a secondary hard drive that all your data goes to so it's actually

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painless enough to use that even my mother can do it so we're going to do a

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follow-up video on rapid the data migration 2 software as well as turbo

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that's going to be hosted by slick but basically without even watching that all

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you need to know is this drive just

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pretty much rocks thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the

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Samsung 840 Evo don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if

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Samsung pay you to make this video Believe It or Not sometimes I just like

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stuff and I'm allowed to do that and as always guys don't forget to

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