{"video_id":"H6SOVna0FOc","title":"G.Skill Falcon II SSD Solid State Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":166,"segments":[{"start_s":0.68,"end_s":6.839,"text":"okay so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the gskill Falcon 2 so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.759,"end_s":13.04,"text":"this is a SATA 2 2 and 1 12 in solid state drive like most of the other ssds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.04,"end_s":16.4,"text":"out on the market it is faster than a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.04,"end_s":19.439,"text":"hard drive and it is also more power","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.4,"end_s":21.439,"text":"efficient and more reliable etc etc so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.439,"end_s":26.599,"text":"enjoy your quiet fast cool reliable and power efficient gskill solidate 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Falcon 2 so this is a SATA 2 2 and 1 12 in solid state drive like most of the other ssds out on the market it is faster than a hard drive and it is also more power efficient and more reliable etc etc so enjoy your quiet fast cool reliable and power efficient gskill solidate drives this particular Drive is rated for 220 megab per second reads and 110 mbytes per second writes but that's not actually the most important spec the most important thing is the random read and random write performance of an SSD and this one uses the indel linkx Barefoot controller so that means that you're going to see performance similar to other indel linkx based drives such as the ocz vertexes or the Corsair X Series so the Falcon 2 comes in a little padded black book shaped thing so we open it up here and let's see what we get for accessories we get a piece of paper so this is a user guide and the user guide say oh I love this installation nice you'd think the user guide was written by inidia I think that's very funny anyway it gives you a general idea of the specs and the installation procedure for your drive and that is pretty much it and then you get the oh oh no there's something else but wait there's more attention for firmware upgrade use only actually this is a really interesting thing to talk about because gskill Falcon 2 drives you can update the firmware much like many of the other indel linkx drives in order to get better performance sometimes as well as new features so many of the indel linkx drives on the market these days have actually been updated to add trim support So trim is a very important feature supported by Windows 7 that allows your solid state drive to perform in a like new uh level of performance even after it has been used cuz with the early ssds you'd actually see significant performance degradation over time as you filled it up so here is the drive itself we can start at the back where we have the SATA to power as well as our SATA to data interface and you can see these two little pins right here are exactly where that jumper would go when you follow the correct procedure to update the firmware and then on the back of the drive you can see we got our Rass it's two and half it reaffirms the spec so it has a 64 mag onboard cache much like most of the indel linkx drives on the market okay you've got your four mounting holes down here at the bottom as well as your four mounting holes on either side so this drive can be installed in probably about 99% of notebooks out there that accept a 2 and 1/2 in Drive you've got a nice sort of matte black finished on the top of the drive with a g- skill Falcon sticker thank you for checking out my unboxing of the g-skill Falcon 2"}