welcome to an exciting unboxing this is the Samsung 830 series now I've been
asked a lot of times to talk about the 830 series but the cold hard truth was I
didn't have one now I do now I can talk about it because the sound okay here
let's start with some context here guys Samsung is the world's number one SSD
everything they are doing so many OEM
drives they okay when you're Samsung you
actually build every component of the
SSD nobody else does that even Intel I
mean they Fab flash so they do they do flash
um they don't do their own controller anymore okay so let's find let's find
other guys um Micron doesn't use their
own controller they use their own flash but not their own controller I mean you
look at guys like ocz where they're designing firmwares and they are working
on controller designs and all that but they don't actually build it and they
don't actually Fab flash they just get huge volume discounts due to their
hugeness so Samsung is the only one that
actually builds the entire thing from the ground up in every possible way what
advantages does that give them well number one it gives them a cost
Advantage so they can deliver high performance products at very competitive
costs what other advantages does it give them it gives them full control of the
creative process of creating the drive so if there's anything that goes well
with the drive Samsung knows who to give the credit to if there's anything that
goes wrong with the drive there's no one for Samsung to blame that gives them a
vested interest in making sure that everything they do is really good
because they're like yeah there you go there's no ambiguity about who screwed
it up if something goes wrong this is the desktop upgrade version of their
drive so it comes in a full retail box and includes a whole bunch of really
cool stuff so you got a MOX TOA power adapter a SATA cable all the mounting
screws you could possibly need whether you're installing it in uh actually well
notebooks will come with all the mounting screws you need so these will Mount the SSD to this and then they will
Mount this to your computer comes with a
copy of Norton Ghost cool so this will allow you to quickly and easily upgrade
your existing drive to your SSD comes with their interactive manual
magician software and SSD manual comes with a hard copy of their quick user
manual unpack look at this unpacking it has a guide for what I'm doing I can
follow the instructions of how to do an unboxing atem page four
unpacking check your product box for the following items please refer to the back
of the package to see the installation kit you have purchased the illustrations
May differ from your actual items that's pretty much what I do isn't
it all right it also includes nice
solidly built built desktop adapter so you mount your SSD here you mount your
thing to your case and then even if your case doesn't natively support 2 and 1 12
in drives you'll have no problem installing it so this is an 830 Drive
the 830 Drive is pretty much as good as it gets out there in terms of
performance it has a threeyear warranty and it does not have the same
disadvantage that a sandforce controller has where it performs really well with
compressible data it's doing data compression on the Fly and uncompression
on the fly when it's writing and reading what that means is in order to achieve
the speeds they've gone for they need a faster well not a faster controller they
need faster Flash and they need to very very carefully build it and tune it in
order to ensure that sandforce doesn't absolutely blow it away when it comes to
compressible data so a Samsung Drive will perform the same regardless of what
you're doing on it compared to a sandforce drive will perform
significantly better in certain applications and significantly worse in
others uh one of the other oh yeah this is one of the other things one of the
other things that Samsung has an advantage of with when they're building
their own stuff is that they get to keep all the best for themselves flash is all
about binning so if you guys don't understand the binning process we actually have an ncx Tech tips episode
that's all about binning what it means but what in a nutshell it means that
they produce a bunch of Flash and cherry pick everything they want and then
anything they don't want well that can go to someone else to build USB thumb
drives what do they care they took the best stuff they used it in their own
products to make sure that their customers get the absolute cream of the
crop that gives you better reliability it gives you better speeds and it gives
you well in terms of for Samsung it gives them lower RMA rates and better
brand perception so it's good for absolutely everybody um so there's your
Samsung logo there's your brush Metal finish there's your capacity indication
on the side you find your standard mounting holes on the other side you
find your other more different standard mounting holes and then on the bottom you find your completely more different
than those standard mounting holes depending on what kind of a notebook you
have this is also a slim SSD which is great because it means that you can
install it anywhere um some notebook computers only have
room for slim ssds so there's a there's about that much more on some ssds makes
them a little bit thicker so whoops I almost dropped it but I didn't but it
wouldn't have mattered because Flash is very durable and is can can handle that
on the back we find our SATA power connector as well as our SATA 3 6 gbit
per second interface and I think that pretty much covers it for now don't
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