today I'm going to be unboxing a very exciting product this is the second to
Market SATA 36 gbit per second SSD so
this is the Intel 510 Series this is a 120 GB super fast according to Intel and
I believe them super fast hard drive replacement drive it is high performance
it is for desktop and mobile system so this is a 2 and 1/2 in drive and it
includes a desktop installation kit that is how they achieve that so here we find
Intel's product information so you can see here this is a 510 Series 120 gig
capacity Drive okay there's not a whole lot else on here other than the pack
date which is January 28th 2011 so Intel
being ready for launches as they always are has these boxed up fully retail
ready to go well before launch this box includes well we'll get to that once we
actually open it and let's see what else Intel has to say for themselves do more
wait less super fast hard drive alternative rugged silence solid SATA 6
gbit per second and 3 gbit per second
compatible Now Intel with their usual tradition is providing or in line with
their usual tradition is providing a three-year warranty on this product and
oh look at this it's not sealed okay
this side is sealed let's break the seal just because that's part of what I enjoy
doing there we go ha let's open this baby up I'm actually
really excited about this so the first
sha 3 gbit per second SSD on the market
was The crucial C300 and here we are we
finally have an answer from Intel one of the big players in the SSD Market they
really shook things up when they released the original x25 M so there's
the SSD itself let's go a little bit further in and see what else we got ooh
I love stickers I actually I actually really love stickers so uh this is a
pretty nice sticker I would actually be pretty content to put this on something
speed demon look a barcode all right
just in case Intel needs to track their sticker inventory Intel
SATA solid state drive here's a little thing thank you for
purchasing in a wide variety of different languages basically thank you
for purchasing okay next we've got one
of those little mini CDs that I think are
adorable open that up what's this okay
installation guide and warranty oh on disc nice okay next we've
got more environmentally friendly packaging hey look at that it comes with
a SATA cable that's high class not a very nice SATA cable mind you that's a
very thin thin SATA cable you might want
to get your own SATA cable but my assumption is that this is in spite of
its thinness and flexibility you know you could argue that thin and flexible is an advantage for a SATA cable uh it's
got to be rated for SATA 6 gbit per second because it does come with a SATA
6 gbit per second drive and if I could get it to focus we could see what it's
called here there it is what is that M phenol
cool okay we've also got a Molex TOA power adapter included in the packaging
oh look at that a locking SATA power adapter or connector I haven't actually
seen one of those before interesting okay we got some screws there's case
screws they include an extra one just in case and then here are screws for the
SSD itself to bolt to the 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in adapter and they include
an extra one of those just in case as well nice little touch from Intel here's
the adapter so you mount one drive on there you mount this in your 3 and 1/2
in and then you're good to go nice solid steel
adapter okay now we get to the goods here so
we've got a careful observe precautions
for handling this device and that is a
wow you can only break that sticker once you can see it leaves behind an ugly
residue okay and then we
have Oo we have some do not
eat and the SSD itself so here is the
Intel SSD 510 series it uses a silver
housing unlike you know what I think the first SSD sample I ever got was this one
right here so that is my Intel x25 M80
gig and it was black and it had kind of a little uh plastic Ridge thing on it so
it could be installed in varying thicknesses of notebook mounting
mechanisms so this is actually the next
Intel SSD sample I've received so it'll be interesting to see in terms of
Aesthetics and in terms of performance how far they have come so we've got some
specs here there's the 6 gbit SATA SSD
so remember too guys that SATA 6 GB per second is physically identical to SATA 3
gbit per second as well as SATA 1 150 megabit per second so you don't have to
worry about any backwards compatibility issues physically now some older
chipsets like maybe SATA 1 chipsets might have trouble with a SATA 6 Drive
although there's no reason to believe they would necessarily but just
something to bear in mind Intel does specifically say though that it is
compatible with SATA 3 6 GB per second and SATA 2 3 GB per second so it's got
its usual mounting holes on the sides usual interface at the back ual mounting
holes on the bottom and uh ooh this is
interesting okay okay looks like we're going to uh looks like we're going to be
doing a longer video than I had originally thought here because I'm
going just dig into my backpack
here find a screwdriver there are no warranty void
if removed stickers on this drive so we're going to be opening this guy
up and finding out what there is what Mysteries it
holds inside so there's one
screw sorry guys I apologize because it's a six-minute unboxing of a drive
already but oh yeah performance why don't I talk
about performance while we do this so Intel spec this drive for up to
470 megabytes per second read and up to
315 megabytes per second right speeds so
what that means is that this is fully
justified in using a SATA 3 6 GB per
second interface now there are some SATA 36 gbit per second hard drives out there
that really don't even begin to approach
needing that kind of sorry these are really hard to remove needing that kind
of bandwidth for the amount of data that they can actually read and write
sequentially now this drive also uses actually okay I'm not going to spoil
that surprise but in in terms of its spec it speced for up to
20,000 uh 4K random reads per second and
50,000 4K random rights per second okay
it uses here we go Intel flash this is
34 nanm Flash and a Marvel controller
let's go ahead and take this PCB out of
here so it's double-sided Okay so we've got eight
chips on the one side eight chips as well as what appears to be a cache so
we've got a controller a cache and then a 16 chip
solution um Intel also calls out that
it's specifically compatible with their six series chipsets although it'll work
just fine probably with any other SATA 3 6 GB per second controller and it is
available in two capacities the 120 gig
that we are looking at here today and at launch it is also available in a 250 gig
configuration do not take your drive apart the way that I have I don't
recommend it that is not not what tech tips is all about it's about me doing it
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