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