welcome to my unboxing of Samsung's 830 series solid state drive this is the
non-desktop upgrade pack so we're going to find out what is inside the more
value oriented packaging that doesn't include the Norton ouch just stabbed
myself Norton go software or the uh SATA
cable and the power cable or the uh 3
and 1/2 in to 2 half in adapter kit okay
so inside we find the Samsung manual a digital Samsung manual as well as an SSD
so this is more like an oem drive that comes in a retail box now the Samsung
830 controller is unique in the I mean if you've watched my unboxing of the 512
gig desktop version you probably know all of this but Samsung is in a unique
position where they actually build and design every aspect of their entire
Drive nobody else does this Samsung is also number one in the world for for
ssds and SSD components which is very very cool they do a ton of OEM business
besides just selling to individual end users so odds are if you've used an SSD
at some point you didn't know what it was there's a very good chance it's a Samsung Drive um moving along the 830
controller is also one of the fastest controllers in the market and does not
rely on compression algorithms to achieve its speed they use highspeed
Flash which they've been from their own Fabs and they make sure that they get
the highest quality and the fastest speed stuff then they use their own designed and own manufactured controller
to build the drive and achieve the best possible performance by cherry-picking
everything for themselves they give themselves an advantage over anyone that
is using any sort of a Samsung component
that they buy from them in order to integrate into their own solution so the
drive is a slim Drive which means you can mount it in whatever you want
including uh notebooks that don't accept the slightly thicker drives and some of
them especially with the way notebook form factors are slimming down these days don't it also has all the standard
mounting holes so you got your two on the side your two on the other more different side and your four on the
other more different bottom you have a SATA power connector on the back as well
as a SATA 3 G uh SATA 3 6 gbit per second data connector here and these
drives are fully capable of using that 6 gbit per second Connection by the way as
well as your Samsung branding on the top as well as a beautiful brushed aluminum
finish on the top of the drive so one thing that I wanted to point out is be
careful when you're installing this don't get your grubby fingerprints all over it find somewhere awesome to put it
inside your case where you're going to be able to like see it like just use you
know velcro to like mount it somewhere that it just looks awesome cuz it looks
awesome uh I mean if you're going to have high performance stuff that's like
all like chromed and brushed and stuff you might as well look at it all day
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and other computer videos thank you for checking out my video on the Samsung 830
series SSD that comes in the non full
upgrade pack but just the the OEM bear Drive