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welcome to my unboxing and First Look perhaps a little belated but better late

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than never as I like to say all the time because that's something that I always

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say the Samsung 840 SSD so this is

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different from the 840 Pro and we actually have a slightly unique sort of

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mix of 840 and 840 Pro so if you've already seen our 840 Pro unboxing you'll

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know that that's the one that has Beast performance basically As Good As It Gets

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in the market it also is in a slightly larger capacity so it's 28 256 and 512

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versus 120 250 and 500 gigs for the 840

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it also comes in a slightly different package although both versions are

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available for both different drives so this one right here our 840 Pro is the

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barar drive version that just comes with the data migration software and the

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drive itself r840 is the version that

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comes with the desktop and laptop installation kit included so in this

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case you have to slice all the way through the sticker in order for the Box to come apart there we go good work

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Linus and the drives look pretty darn

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near identical on the top the only way to tell the difference between an 840

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and an 840 Pro is the fact that there's no Pro here also the fact that it comes

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in a different capacity it's a SATA 36 GB per second drive it uses Samsung's

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latest controller designed by Samsung

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and it has oh cool oh okay so they've got a 2 millimeter uh clip here that

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allows you to go from a 7 millimeter Drive to a 9mm Drive depending on what

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the requirements are for your particular notebook that's really handy in a

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desktop it makes no difference whatsoever but it's uh it's really good

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to have for for a notebook cuz yeah if

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you have the slightly the wrong drive it just won't fit and that'll be a bit of a

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problem all right so software wise I was

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talking about their controller right you know what we never did go through this

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so it's using their Three core MDX controller designed by Samsung for

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Samsung just like everything else in this drive so the main advantage for

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Samsung is the fact that the controller the

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firmware The Flash the RAM every single

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thing in here is designed and manufactured by Samsung no one else does

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this not Intel not crucial nobody else

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does this for example crucial is using a thirdparty controller chipset so they're

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writing firmware for it they're manufacturing their own Flash and RAM

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but they missed that one key component and then Intel is using sandforce

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controllers so just totally totally using I me their own firmware for it but

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totally using someone else's stuff whereas Samsung doesn't do that it uses

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toggle ddr2 Nan flash memory this is TLC

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memory more on that in a moment ddr2 SD RAM cach memory AES 256bit encryption is

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built into the drive it comes with their magician software which is basically uh

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SSD performance optimization so manual trim uh Benchmark testing security race

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and firmware updates as well as their data migration software the 840 also has

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a three-year warranty compared to the 5year warranty on the 840 Pro it is

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designed more for a consumer work cycle

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than like a prosumer or professional work cycle so the 840 is the perfect

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drive for someone like your gamer friend or your mom or whoever else where it's

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more of a mainstream customer it's less expensive but they're not expecting that

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customer to be writing you know five 10 gigs of data to the drive every single

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day because like all SSD drives the 840

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and the 840 Pro have a limited number of right cycles and TLC Flash compared to

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mlc so 2 bit per cell Flash versus 3 bit

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per cell flash is inherently less

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durable so it's not going to last as long so if it's someone who's using

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their SSD as you know a scratch disc or something for working on very large

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video or photo files then that's going to be a bit of a problem for something

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like a non-pro level Drive hence the branding 840 refers to the generation of

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products so you've got the 840 and the 840 Pro for more like a pro user or

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someone who's more of a heavy user so let's have a look at what else is

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included with the 840 we've got

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a thing that has a thing inside there's your manual and software download the

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latest from the Samsung website if you sort of care about that sort of thing oo

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stickers Samsung SSD activated those are

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kind of neat stickers I like stickers warranty statement summary for the 840

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and the 840 Pro there's a bracket so that's a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in

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bracket it's made of aluminum so it's going to be lightweight if you're installing it in the desktop they've

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also got all the screws that you might need in order to go ahead and do that

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their installation a SATA cable is included no way oh this is awesome these

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are handy this is one of those USB to ah

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here we go USB to SATA adapters so

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instead of having see this this is the kind of thing I like uh Kingston had a

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kit they had um a desktop UPG a notebook upgrade kit where they included an

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actual 2 and 1/2 in Drive enclosure with the thing it was inside the SSD box I

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was like really a whole 2 and 1 half in driving that's not very convenient cuz

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you actually have to take the thing put it in the thing screw it into the thing

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close it up and then you plug that into like the wall and then plug that into I

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was like what really these are awesome though this is uh kind of like seat's

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glex um goflex external uh external

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drives right where the whole thing is data and power all through USB and then

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it plugs into the back of the SSD just like this so there's your SATA 3

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interface there's your SATA interface on the back there you just go like that you

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can run the Drive backup or drive migration tool that is provided by

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Samsung and then you do your swap so you actually leave the drive in the notebook

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you plug in this one you run everything then you swap them and you're good to go

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