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you know it really wasn't that long ago that any SSD was going to cost you

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hundreds of dollars but we finally gotten to the point where ssds are

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reaching the sub $100 Mark so ocz has

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their Onyx series of drives these feature an indel link Barefoot

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controller just like their higher-end agility and vertex drives but the

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difference is that it does have lower-end flash memory on it so that

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means that in terms of your maximum performance you only get up to 125 mb

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per second reads and 70 MB perss rights so it does suffer a little bit in terms

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of performance compared to a more premium drive but the advantage is that

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you're still going to absolutely smoke a

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magnetic hard drive in terms of the um the random performance so for little

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things like OS and you also have the option of course if you're worried about

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those uh sustained reads and rights of raiding these drives up so this is a bit

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of a this unboxing is meant to be a bit of a lead in to another episode I'm

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going to be doing shortly if I can ever get the Box open then

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um that would really be a major step towards having that happen for me here

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oh okay never mind this doesn't sealed as badly as I thought okay so we just

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pop that open there we are and we open up the drive so I've actually got eight

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of these and I'm going to be running them all on a RAID controller to see

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what kind of numbers we can get if we team up a bunch of entry level drives uh

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on a RAID controller versus running uh

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one higher end drive so here we are we have an installation guide and warranty

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info ocz covers this I believe for 3 years uh limited

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warranty uh that should be on the back oh two years on onyx drives so you do

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get a slightly shorter warranty but in terms of price they are not even close

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to the other drives so you got to kind of take the good with the bad it looks

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like they're standard SSD drive so you got a nice black housing this is a 2 and

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1/2 in Drive so it is compatible with either desktop

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or notebook computer on the back you find a sticker

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that you shouldn't remove because then your warranty will be void and at the

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back of the drive you find a standard SATA power and SATA 2 Data interface

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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ocz Onyx and uh hopefully you'll

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stay tuned on my blog for the uh

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interesting video that I'm going to have coming up as soon as I have time