{"video_id":"SsXZOxCtt5I","title":"Samsung 840 Pro SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":254,"segments":[{"start_s":7.64,"end_s":16.08,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD so moving","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.839,"end_s":20.439,"text":"right along to what makes the 840 Pro special Three core MDX controller now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.68,"end_s":26.119,"text":"this okay so this is a part of what makes Samsung special on a bigger level","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.72,"end_s":28.679,"text":"is the fact that Samsung is the only one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.119,"end_s":33.76,"text":"who actually designs and manufactures their own s SD I was about to say STDs","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.679,"end_s":40.44,"text":"they design and manufacture STDs no 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they design and manufacture STDs no they don't do that um they own ssds from top to bottom everything from the controller they design and manufacture it to the RAM they design and manufacture it to the flash which they design and manufacture to the firmware which they design and code and replicate manufacture um everyone else is relying on someone else on a hardware level or on a software level next thing here is they're using toggle ddr2 Nan flashmemory toggle DDR 2.0 Nan flash memory okay lpddr2 SD RAM cach memory AES 256bit encryption is built in which basically means that they take whatever password that you've created for your SSD Reiger it 14 times and make it pretty darn difficult to crack so you can set that up on a BIOS level to make sure that whoever gets your computer is not actually going to be able to access any of your data they'll still be able to format the drive but they won't able to actually read anything on there without some pretty serious hacking tools next up we've got their magician software which is basically a toolkit of software that allows you to do performance optimization so you can manually trim the drive you can uh do like a simple Benchmark you can secure erase it you can still good because ssds are shock resistant um you can do firmware updates so all that stuff that you'd expect from an SSD toolkit this particular drive has a 5-year warranty so the pro drive is positioned above the regular 840 it does use mlc Flash which is basically two bits per cell compared to uh three bits per cell on the regular 840 they do use the same controller technology however so the main difference is in the flash being used and that's another one of the reasons why Samsung gives this one a 5year warranty versus the three-year warranty on the 840 because they are expecting that mlc flash to put up with an Enthusiast level usage pattern for well at at least 5 years and my typical observation is that when a manufacturer gives you a three-year warranty they are expecting it to last more like six to eight years when they give you a 5-year warranty they are expecting it to last longer than that because I mean I can tell you guys right now based on how much margin there is and something like flash and RAM and controllers and everything that's in here they cannot afford to 5 years from now be replacing all of them it doesn't work that way they can afford to be replacing a very very very small percentage of them one of the other luxuries that Samsung enjoys because they manufacture everything that goes in the drive is that they can kind of save the best for themselves so Samsung sells flash Samsung sells RAM to other guys to manufacture ssds but it's all about binning so if you guys understand the binning process you know that what Samsung's doing is they're manufacturing like a butt ton of Flash and then they're going to go okay well this is the grade A stuff this is the Grade B stuff grade C and that stuff's going to go in like USB thumb drives or whatever else like that um and this is the like other stuff that we're just going to put over here and then put that in our own products don't worry about it don't worry about it customers we got this we got this one so I think that pretty much covers it the 840 Pro if you have missed any of it that I said so far is about as fast as it gets for an SSD today SAA 36 gbit per second it has a super fast controller it's capable of something ridiculous like it's a 100,000 iops um on yeah reads up to 100,000 iops and writes up to 90,000 iops so those are random um has a 5year warranty did I say that already something about STDs don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}