so today I'm having a quick look at something I've never seen before and it
is a retail box Intel SSD now that may
seem like a weird thing for me to have never seen before but I haven't and the
reason for that is I've only seen the OEM ones which come in like a little brown box you break the seal it has like
a little manual in it and a drive and that's it so this is a retail kit so it
includes all of the usual um information
that comes on a retail box first of all they tell you the capacity this is a 40
gig drive from the x25 V Series so the V
series is pretty much like the M series except for a couple key differences the
differences are mostly in terms of right now capacity so the M series is from 80
to 160 gigs and in terms of performance
particularly on the sequential reads and writs the V series does not perform as
well as the M series which as you'll see
if you check out the benchmarks for this drive online is not actually that
important in terms of performance so a lot of people have found that this brand
new V series is a really good compromise
between price and performance so let me
see yeah they actually cover that on the side here so they show you that in terms
of rugged silent solid okay they're all
the same in terms of low power they're all the same but in terms of performance
it goes from the 40 gig with one check mark to the 80 gig x25 M with two check
marks to the 160 gig x2m with three check marks the 160 gig actually does
perform a little bit better than the 80 gig but in terms of real world I don't
think you'd really notice it so let's get this box opened up and inside we
will find a brown box okay so I've never
opened one of these before so I don't actually know how but it looks like it's
a there we go okay that's kind of sever so it comes up this way and there is our
x25 V 40 gig SSD but let's have a look
at the accessories that come with it first so there's a little tray it comes with okay that's very nice my SSD rocks
sticker how can you go wrong with a sticker like that very cool okay and
then we've got a little Intel uh product information cheet Intel sat solid state
drive and it unfolds to reveal that
Intel recommends that this be professionally installed blah blah blah whatever it's really easy to install a
drive okay it comes with a warranty and
installation guide disc okay so one of those little mini CDs and then in here
we will find still more accessories so you got some hting screws five of each
in case you lose one that's really nice of them to include and Intel actually
includes in their retail box a 2 and A2 in to three and two and a half yeah 3
and 1/2 inch Drive Bay adapter so that's really nice you actually screw the drive
on to here and then with this particular adapter you can use the screws from the
side to mount or even at the bottom to mount it anywhere a 3 and 1/2 in drive
would go thank you very much Intel okay
so let's get to the drive itself so we got our little observe precautions be
very careful when you're handling this wow that is a nasty sticker so uh yeah
if that sticker it doesn't show obvious signs of of being broken then you know
you're getting a brand new drive so like most of the other Intel drives it
includes a little plastic bracket around the top that's to allow installation in
notebooks that only accept the thinner drives and then it also allows
installation in notebooks that only accept the thicker drive so you can either um take out all four screws
remove the little plastic bracket and then put put the screws back in or you can just leave it as is so you can
there's not a whole lot to show you about this okay so you got your mounting holes on each side okay once again
that's to ensure that you can mount it anywhere a 2 and 1 half in drive would go you got your mounting holes on the
bottom and then you've got your standard SATA 2 interface on the back with both
SATA 2 data and SATA 2 power thank you for checking out my quick unboxing of
the Intel x25 V 40 gig Drive