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another SSD unboxing yes yes it is

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however there is a very good reason for it this is the ocz vertex okay you've

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heard this before but wait there's more

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limited edition okay so this is a limited edition drive it is a 200

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Gigabyte drive that I'm going to be unboxing today which seems like an odd

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odd number for for an SSD because typically what we've seen in the past is

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32 gig 64 gig 128 2 50 etc etc but no

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this is a 200 gig it is a high performance design with mlc flash memory

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I'll more on this in a minute trim support and raid capability but let's go

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back to the back of this drive okay latest groundbreaking solid state taking

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shape in the limited edition okay you can probably read that if you pause it

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so I'll let you do that if you want to this is where this drive separates

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itself from the crowd reads up to 270 megabytes per second totally

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unexceptional WR up to 250 megabytes per

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second we have not seen an mlc flash drive capable of anywhere near this kind

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of a right speed with sustained rights up to 235 megabytes per second so that

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means that there's a little bit of a trick this is not another indel linkx

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based ocz vertex drive this is based on

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an entirely new controller called

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the if I could get the package off I'm

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actually not sure if I'm allowed to say exactly what it is but I'll say that it's made by a different vendor one that

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we've been eagerly anticipating the controllers from and it the initials are

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S and F okay so if you if you know too

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much about ssds in fact you can probably Google it all right let's get this thing

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open here but the way that they achieve this high level of right performance is

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through a compression algorithm that actually writes far less than you're

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actually telling it to now that means that the controller on this drive is far

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more complicated than an indel linkx controller but it is able to achieve a

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high level of performance without expensive flash so it's a bit of a

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tradeoff okay so it comes with an installation guide uh how to prepare

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your drive before use more installation guide formatting and your limited

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warranty which I believe is 3 years on this drive but it looks like it doesn't

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say that here must say it's somewhere

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yeah there it is threeyear warranty on this particular ocz product

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so the vertex limited edition actually you know what I'm going to do something

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unprecedented and I'm just going to kind of put this down and I'm going to let

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the cameraman look at it for a second and I'm going to step out of the room

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and go get another prop one moment I'll

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be

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back yeah I hope that was really interesting I'm back just closing the

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door I wanted to compare it to the older

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vertex okay so there we go basically it

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looks almost the same you can see that the label is slightly shinier because

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vertex is now shiny and limited edition is shiny they're both SATA 2 so that

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means that we're not going to be moving beyond the approximately 270 megabyte

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pers second overall bandwidth limitation of a SATA 2 controller they're the same

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thickness so that means they're going to be compatible with pretty much 99% of

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laptops out there they feature mounting holes on the sides as well as on the

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bottoms of the drives the bottoms of these drives actually look uh pretty

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much exactly the same you can see the part number is slightly different this

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is a VTX L whereas the older ones are

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just VTX and I think that's pretty much all

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there is to say about it the vertex Le comes at a price premium you can see

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that we've got a SATA 2 interface here SATA 2 power SATA 2 Data but you are

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getting the fastest mlc performance on

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the market today and that is why this is worth unboxing even though we're just

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looking at another black SSD drive from

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ocz thank you for checking out my video

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