this unboxing is more of a lead into an NC Tech tips topic that I'm going to be
working on soon I'm going to actually be doing thanks to Hitachi actually big
thanks to Hitachi for providing us with the drives for this topic but we are
finally after many many many requests
going to be doing an NC Tech tips on configuring raid so I'm going to be
using the Hitachi deskstar 3 and 1/2 in
drive this is a 7200 RPM drive with 32
Megs of cach I have three drives in one
capacity so I'm going to be showing raid zero raid 1 as well as raid 5 okay this
is their HD 3100 series drive so this is
their latest series of drives and I'm going to go ahead and open the box now
this is I think the first time I've ever actually unboxed a retail box hard drive
because mostly uh NCIX where I work being an online store we don't really
stock a whole lot of retail box hard drives because uh it's a lot easier to
just ship a drive than to ship a box so here is the packaging that it comes in
clever little plastic thing then we have
wow a hard drive installation guide I have never seen one of these before so
they show you how to connect the SATA power and SATA data you can record your
drive information in here if you want to
uh talks about hitachi's warranty so Hitachi has a okay it says a
onee 2ye threee or 5year so I don't know
which one it is for this particular drive but let's you know what let's see
if we can figure that out real quick hold on it couldn't be that complicated
this drive has a three-year warranty it is green eco-friendly technology for
industry-leading low power consumption okay so this is a an eco-friendly drive
as well you've got four hard drive screws for installing the drive in your
case you have a SATA cable for installing the drive into your
motherboard and then here is the other side of the little plastic clam shell
that holds the drive now Hitachi drives come in particularly shiny anti-st I
bags that are also moisture barrier bags
and theirs are completely sealed whereas Seagate just folds over a bag and then
puts a sticker on it as I recall so you
actually have to tear it open and you will find do not eat gel silica gel
don't eat it and then you will find a
hard drive so here is the Hitachi 1 tab hard drive that we are unboxing today it
is also quite shiny you can see the label up close in HD if you'd like don't
forget to set your uh your YouTube to HD so you can see that label and all its
labeled glory and then you can flip it over and you can see the controller oh
Controller made by LSI interesting didn't know that you can see
cash you can see some other stuff uh you
can see the SATA 2 interface so this is a SATA 2 drive so there's your power
there's your data and it's a 3 and 1/2 in drive so it uses your standard 123 or
one two uh um configuration for mounting
it to your case so it's compatible with pretty much any case out there thank you
for checking out my unboxing and I'm sorry for this incredibly pointless
unboxing but I have a much better topic coming up so stay tuned and it will all
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