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so this is something that's always bothered me it seems like everyone else

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gets high density high capacity storage whether it's usb thumb drives that have

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been available in capacities as big as you know 256 gigs fairly cheaply for

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years or even up to a terabyte if you want to spring for one of those kingston ones phones are all the way up to 128

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gigs microsd cards i think are available in like 256 gig at this point

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msata ssds i mean we're talking full blown ssds are available in up to one

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terabyte capacities so why is it

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that when it comes to two and a half inch ssds for your full size laptop or

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your desktop we've been stuck at the same damn one terabyte capacity for so

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long with samsung only recently releasing a two terabyte SSD

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so in today's video we're going to be introducing two things number one

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is the largest SSD that i have ever had my hands on this is a

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3.84 terabyte SSD

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and number two is a new format inspired

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by this thing that we're calling holy

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tunnelbear is the easy to use vpn service that lets you browse the

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internet as though you're in one of 20 different countries check out the link

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in the video description to learn more and try it for free

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so i think the appropriate way to start something like this when you got like

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something really cool and interesting and different

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is with one of our classic unboxings so let's go ahead and rip this baby open

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and find out what exactly a 3.84 terabyte

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SSD looks like

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the answer is that aside from the

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horrendous box with the three-year warranty policy

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thing in it clearly designed for people who don't care about the retail packaging

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exactly the same as any other SSD i mean

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okay sure you've got the 3.84 terabyte

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capacity written on there there's probably some other specs like uh

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there's your power consumption so it consumes about 4.1 watts of power when

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it's being written to it's rated at 540 megabytes per second read 480 megabytes

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per second right and can handle 99 000 iops when it comes to random

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4k at a q depth of 32 so that's pretty

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respectable but only about 18 000 iops

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and again that's 4k random at a q depth of 32 when it comes to writes meaning

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that this is definitely a reads optimized drive in terms of the form

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factor if you check it out it's got a standard state of power standard SATA

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data yes my friends everything that's interesting about this drive

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pretty much is under the hood so why don't we open it up

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i don't know if i'll ever stop appreciating the irony of these kits

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being called ifixit when they let me use one because i never use them to fix

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anything i'm usually breaking stuff whatever warranties are for chumps

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anyway and if if i didn't open it up how would i show

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you where all the magic blue smoke gets uh

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gets held while the drive is operating all right so first thing you're going to

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notice a bunch of flash chips actually not that many in the context of how large the

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drive is each one of these is about 480 gigabytes of capacity wrap your freaking

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brain around that and the way they achieve that is in a couple of ways first of all they are tlc flash which

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means that they can store three bits per cell that gives better capacity and

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lower cost per capacity although you do

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trade off some right endurance as well as right performance and then the other

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one the big one is the fact that they are using samsung's 3d v nand with 32

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layers of flash memory stacked instead

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of just relying on moore's law to continue to spread out all of those

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cells so that is what has enabled them to deliver this puppy both at a

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reasonable cost and in a reasonable form

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factor but of course there's more technology on board as well so you're

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gonna find a tantalum capacitor on here that's going to allow the cache to flush

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to the nand chips in the event of a sudden power loss as well as well you

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won't be able to see it but inside samsung's proprietary controller you'll

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find some ecc correction technology as well as wear leveling trim and all that

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good stuff that allows the drive to perform as well as it does and this is

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cool in spite of the fact that it uses tlc

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flash this drive is rated at a 2 million hour mean time between failure and rated

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at 5 600 terabytes of total data written

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and within its sort of useful life span so to put that in perspective that would

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be writing the entire capacity of this drive 3.84 terabytes per day for four

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years every day before you would use up what samsung rates it at

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but enough about that let's go ahead and plug it into a bench and well if nothing

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else find out if it still works basically what i'm doing right now is

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i'm demonstrating exactly how to not benchmark an SSD and i'm going to copy a

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file from my SSD onto a RAM disk so you can see

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it's actually not going that fast and the reason for

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that is that this SSD is not designed

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for large contiguous file transfers it is designed rather

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for something more like the application that we are going to be using it for

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which is multiple users hitting it for something like streaming video all at

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the same time so these ssds are going to act as a read cache for our video

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editors to edit video files off of so they're going to be scrubbing back and

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forth through video files they're going to be asking it for this clip and then

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that clip and then you know moving through the timeline adding things

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removing things and that is the kind of workload that something like this is

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great for where we will be writing video clips to

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it but we'll actually be reading them back many times for every time that we

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write to them all right Linus so a video about a drive the cool things

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about which you can't really demonstrate

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thumbs actually hold on nope there are some things i can demonstrate and one of

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them is the sheer data density of this so just for comparison

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this is Intel 750 series NVMe SSD this

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is a 1.2 terabyte drive and unlike that

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drive what samsung has managed to do here is within that seven millimeter

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form factor so it'll fit in pretty much any laptop or certainly any desktop

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they have delivered 3.84 terabytes and

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that's pretty impressive but you know

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micro sd cards right like they're huge no no this is where it gets really cool

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so this is as good as it gets for a hard drive these days this is almost as good

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as it gets for even three and a half inch hard drives now so to put it in

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perspective this is about half the capacity of this guy right here

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very cool but not actually the coolest thing about it the coolest thing about

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this puppy is the cost per Gigabyte and

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you guys are like oh yeah i knew he was coming to this eventually how much does it cost so this guy right here is going

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to set you back about 2 200

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u.s dollars to which most of you are probably going to go

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excuse me you're going gonna tell me this is a value in terms of cost per

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Gigabyte uh yeah actually because while i

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am not here to tell you guys that you should all run out and buy one of these

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today so you can keep all your steam games on one SSD yay because most games

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loading times are not even any faster on faster storage no no no where the cost

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per Gigabyte benefit comes in is in the sheer density of it like in a data

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center application let's say netflix for example wants to roll out you know racks

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on racks on racks of new servers with you know all the latest hey say for

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example cool movies that you and all your friends want to watch well rather

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than just the cost of this guy to worry about it's only about 55 cents per gig

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which is pretty good especially given like a few

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years ago we were paying over a dollar there's more to worry about than just

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this cost there's the cost of the drive cage it sits in the cost of the SATA

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controller that controls that cage the cost of the CPU that runs that system

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the cost of the actual real estate inside a data center that that server

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has to sit inside so if you can double the amount of storage that again

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someone like a video streaming service can have per drive sled you are gonna

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have a whole lot of folks saying shut up

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and take my money and that is the most impressive thing about this puppy but

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what's the application to you you might ask well right now not a whole lot like

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i said i'm not recommending that you run out and buy one of these although if you

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are a baller then i you could certainly do a lot worse um

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no the applicability to you is that bleeding edge hardware like this always

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starts in the enterprise space and within whether it's two years or ten

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years eventually makes its way down to the consumer level so the fact that it's

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finally started we finally have ssds

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that not only even on a density

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level but also just on a sheer capacity level are catching up to hard drives

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means that that can't be that far away

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so this is cool we've actually got a giveaway to announce we've collaborated

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with rockette makers of gaming peripherals to give away not one not two

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not three not four not five not six not seven but eight of their gaming mice so

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there's a couple of different models and depending on how you get drawn by the

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way you enter at the link to the forum in the video description you can win

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either a cairo which has a 2000 dpi

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sensor up to 4000 stable with their overdrive mode as well as a clean

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ergonomic design a soft touch service and a design that is optimized for both

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right and left-handed use or you could win yourself a kova so that features

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their pro-optic r6 sensor which is a 3500 dpi sensor which can handle up to

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7000 with their overdrive mode it's got their smartcast intuitive button layout

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that doubles the standard m1 and m2 functions it features two levels 16.8

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million multi-color illumination on the scroll wheel and the mouse rim and that

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one is designed to be ambidextrous as well so head over to the link in the

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video description and leave a comment on the video saying hey thanks rocket we

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love these kinds of giveaways you should do more of them because they're freaking

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awesome but don't wait you've only got seven

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days to enter starting from the post date of this video so

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get on it alright guys so thanks for watching this

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first episode of holy sh it's just a

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cool product let us know if you like this format it's kind of similar to our

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