1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:06,839 okay so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the gskill Falcon 2 so 2 00:00:04,759 --> 00:00:13,040 this is a SATA 2 2 and 1 12 in solid state drive like most of the other ssds 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:16,400 out on the market it is faster than a 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:19,439 hard drive and it is also more power 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,439 efficient and more reliable etc etc so 6 00:00:19,439 --> 00:00:26,599 enjoy your quiet fast cool reliable and power efficient gskill solidate drives 7 00:00:24,359 --> 00:00:31,359 this particular Drive is rated for 220 megab per second reads and 110 mbytes 8 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:35,600 per second writes but that's not actually the most important spec the 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:40,440 most important thing is the random read and random write performance of an SSD 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:44,719 and this one uses the indel linkx Barefoot controller so that means that 11 00:00:42,559 --> 00:00:49,600 you're going to see performance similar to other indel linkx based drives such 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:55,039 as the ocz vertexes or the Corsair X Series so the Falcon 2 comes in a little 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:59,160 padded black book shaped thing so we open it up here and let's see what we 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:05,040 get for accessories we get a piece of paper so this is a user guide and the 15 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,200 user guide say oh I love this 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:10,439 installation nice you'd think the user guide was written by inidia I think 17 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:14,240 that's very funny anyway it gives you a general idea of the specs and the 18 00:01:12,479 --> 00:01:19,159 installation procedure for your drive and that is pretty much it and then you 19 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:23,240 get the oh oh no there's something else but wait there's more attention for 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:27,840 firmware upgrade use only actually this is a really interesting thing to talk 21 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:32,040 about because gskill Falcon 2 drives you can update the firmware much like many 22 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:36,079 of the other indel linkx drives in order to get better performance sometimes as 23 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:40,119 well as new features so many of the indel linkx drives on the market these 24 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:44,680 days have actually been updated to add trim support So trim is a very important 25 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:50,640 feature supported by Windows 7 that allows your solid state drive to perform 26 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:53,360 in a like new uh level of performance 27 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:57,960 even after it has been used cuz with the early ssds you'd actually see 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:02,159 significant performance degradation over time as you filled it up so here is the 29 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:07,320 drive itself we can start at the back where we have the SATA to power as well 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:11,200 as our SATA to data interface and you can see these two little pins right here 31 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:15,120 are exactly where that jumper would go when you follow the correct procedure to 32 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:19,840 update the firmware and then on the back of the drive you can see we got our Rass 33 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:23,920 it's two and half it reaffirms the spec so it has a 64 mag onboard cache much 34 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,560 like most of the indel linkx drives on the market okay you've got your four 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:31,720 mounting holes down here at the bottom as well as your four mounting holes on 36 00:02:29,959 --> 00:02:35,920 either side so this drive can be installed in probably about 99% of 37 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,319 notebooks out there that accept a 2 and 1/2 in Drive you've got a nice sort of 38 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,680 matte black finished on the top of the drive with a g- skill Falcon sticker 39 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:47,120 thank you for checking out my unboxing of the g-skill Falcon 2