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welcome to my unboxing of the Intel 520 series SSD I know it's another SSD

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unboxing and there's not much different because this is a sand Force Space drive

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and it's a 240 gig drive and these exist before but wait no no no this is other

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more different sand Force drive so while the Intel 520 series drive has a San

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Force SATA 3 6 GB per second controller in it okay so let's just see if there's

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anything else it has to say for itself on the outside of the box before we

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before we get into this okay so we got the data manufacturer which was sort of

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not that long ago we got a product code we got a capacity comes in a variety of

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capacities including 120 gig 240 gig okay we've got the Box contents which

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we'll see obviously cuz this is an unboxing that means we open the box

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super fast hard drive alternative and they right rugged silent and solid

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they're right about that too and it is SATA 6 GB per second and SATA 3 GB per

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second compatible comes with a 5year warranty Intel actually includes a

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5-year warranty with their San Force Drive which brings me to what is special

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about an Intel San Force SATA 3 6 GB per

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second drive and that is that well one

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why did it take them so long to get to Market I don't know if you guys remember

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this but there was a there was quite a bit of flak going around about San Force

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SATA 3 drives and not being reliable enough and etc etc etc and I'm going to

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let you guys in on on a little secret well my suspicion of a little secret

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anyway I suspect that Intel was planning

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a sand Force Drive ages ago but because

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they were the ones whose internal validation found that there were still

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problems with it they never released one until now so not only have they

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addressed the reliability issues that people were having with sand Force

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drives which by and large are resolved with the other manufacturers now as well

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okay so let's let's assume for a second that the reliability is equivalent which

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I don't know is necessarily true because at least at NCI Intel has the lowest

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return rate out of all SSD manufacturers like definitely the lowest although

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they're more expensive so bear that in mind as well Intel has also tuned the

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performance of their San for SATA 3 6 gbit per second drive to the point where

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it is now faster than anyone else's in spite of the fact that it only uses

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synchronous Intel flash it doesn't even use toggle flash so without the

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advantage of the fastest possible possible flash out there they're achieving better performance than anyone

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else so they have done reliability tuning and performance tuning on this

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controller in order to achieve the best possible drive to deliver to their

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customers so this is a replacement for the 510 series drive that performs

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better and I mean what else is there to really say about it beyond that so here

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we go let's have a look at the drive itself you can see there's four screws on the top that allow you to remove this

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plastic piece right here allowing you to install it in laptops that require a low

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profile 2 and 1/2 in Drive drive or laptops that require a full height uh 2

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and 1/2 in drive you got all your standard mounting holes on the bottom you can see this equipment is provided

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by the Intel demo Depot cool okay uh you

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got sorry did I say you have your mounting holes here and your mounting holes here I really don't know why they

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don't do something about like the finish on these drives cuz they're all kind of like this I wouldn't mind if they were

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sort of a little shiny Kingston does a great job with the Aesthetics of their

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drives um I don't know it just seems kind of

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it's very rugged so it depends what you're after guess if you're looking for something sort of rugged and corporate

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then that works uh what do we have for included accessories Intel is one of the

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best when it comes to uh well included

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accessories because they are very uh I

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mean that's that's kind of their thing it's like with an Intel product that you

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buy you expect it to come with everything you need you expect it to work 100% right out of the box it's

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their corporate expectation of themselves and that customers have of

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them so they include everything you need here we have the Intel data

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migration software can be downlo loed from Intel.com go/ SSD installation that

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only works on Intel drives and it actually does work I've used it in the

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past it allows you to quickly and easily transition your system from a hard drive

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to an SSD comes with a SATA cable made

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by foxcom there you go foxcon makes

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everything it's amazing uh then we've got five ha look at this I love it I

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love it when companies do this five desktop screws five um like notebook

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screws so this allows you to install it uh in whatever kind of configuration you

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require so if you're using an adapter then you'll use these screws to mount

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the adapter into your case and you'll use these screws to mount it to the adapter but why do they include five

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they include five just in case there's a miscount so no matter what happens

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you'll always have enough screws because they include five so even if you're one

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short you'll still have four which is what you actually need you also get a

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speed demon sticker you also get an Intel solid state drive important web

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links thing you get a Molex to SATA adapt power ad

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cable and you get an included 2 and 1/2

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in to 3 and 1/2 in Drive sled which gives you a lot of different flexibility

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more flexible options in terms of where you want to mount the drive on it maybe

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you got like a hot swap cage or something like that you're going to put it in you want to make sure everything

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lines up right so there you go so you'll use these screws to mount it to this and

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these screws to mount this to your case which has all the same mounting points

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as a 3 and half inch hard drive and is one of the more rugged and robust I mean

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here I'll contrast this with what comes with uh Intel's competitor drives I

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think I have one lying around over

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here so I'm not going to name any names but uh this one's made of aluminum and

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like look how much Flex it has which I'm not saying actually matters or anything

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but you know if you're going to be Intel and overbuild everything you might as

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well overbuild everything so there you have it this is the Intel 520 series SSD

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and the reason I have this is I'm actually going to be doing a 240 to 256

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gig SSD Roundup on my ncixcom channel so make sure you're subscribed to that one

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as well because we're going to have a look at this one a couple other sand

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Force drives we're going to have a look at an indel Link's Everest Drive and

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