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okay so today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the gskill Falcon 2 so

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this is a SATA 2 2 and 1 12 in solid state drive like most of the other ssds

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out on the market it is faster than a

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hard drive and it is also more power

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efficient and more reliable etc etc so

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enjoy your quiet fast cool reliable and power efficient gskill solidate drives

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this particular Drive is rated for 220 megab per second reads and 110 mbytes

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per second writes but that's not actually the most important spec the

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most important thing is the random read and random write performance of an SSD

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and this one uses the indel linkx Barefoot controller so that means that

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you're going to see performance similar to other indel linkx based drives such

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as the ocz vertexes or the Corsair X Series so the Falcon 2 comes in a little

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padded black book shaped thing so we open it up here and let's see what we

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get for accessories we get a piece of paper so this is a user guide and the

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user guide say oh I love this

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installation nice you'd think the user guide was written by inidia I think

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that's very funny anyway it gives you a general idea of the specs and the

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installation procedure for your drive and that is pretty much it and then you

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get the oh oh no there's something else but wait there's more attention for

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firmware upgrade use only actually this is a really interesting thing to talk

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about because gskill Falcon 2 drives you can update the firmware much like many

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of the other indel linkx drives in order to get better performance sometimes as

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well as new features so many of the indel linkx drives on the market these

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days have actually been updated to add trim support So trim is a very important

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feature supported by Windows 7 that allows your solid state drive to perform

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in a like new uh level of performance

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even after it has been used cuz with the early ssds you'd actually see

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significant performance degradation over time as you filled it up so here is the

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drive itself we can start at the back where we have the SATA to power as well

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as our SATA to data interface and you can see these two little pins right here

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are exactly where that jumper would go when you follow the correct procedure to

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update the firmware and then on the back of the drive you can see we got our Rass

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it's two and half it reaffirms the spec so it has a 64 mag onboard cache much

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like most of the indel linkx drives on the market okay you've got your four

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mounting holes down here at the bottom as well as your four mounting holes on

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either side so this drive can be installed in probably about 99% of

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notebooks out there that accept a 2 and 1/2 in Drive you've got a nice sort of

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matte black finished on the top of the drive with a g- skill Falcon sticker

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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the g-skill Falcon 2