{"video_id":"nCj10Zg8L0k","title":"OCZ IBIS & HSDL Extreme Performance SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":394,"segments":[{"start_s":0.76,"end_s":6.919,"text":"this changes everything it's it's it's kind of like uh it's kind of like this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.92,"end_s":12.719,"text":"product in that respect it changes everything again SSD technology is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.84,"end_s":17.48,"text":"moving so fast that it's almost impossible to keep up with it so we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.799,"end_s":21.519,"text":"started out with simple ssds 2 and 1/2 in drives and honestly you know what","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.359,"end_s":26.24,"text":"performance wasn't great it wasn't even really in a lot of situations as good 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directly into your SSD drive so you just go ahead","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.52,"end_s":318.52,"text":"remove the little uh stopper right there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":315.039,"end_s":322.28,"text":"the stopper the you unplug the top of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":318.52,"end_s":325.12,"text":"the bottle that unleashes the power the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":322.28,"end_s":330.56,"text":"power so you go ahead use one of your PCI Express 4X or higher remember you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.84,"end_s":334.44,"text":"can plug this into an 8x or a 16x connector on your motherboard plug that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":332.479,"end_s":340.44,"text":"in like that run that drive or wherever the heck you feel like it and boom you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":337.72,"end_s":345.36,"text":"have performance that is Untouchable with any other solution on the market at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":343.16,"end_s":351.4,"text":"this time and probably for a while although the the way SSD per the way SSD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.96,"end_s":356.24,"text":"performance is increasing like every time you stop and take a breath who","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.08,"end_s":361.6,"text":"knows what is coming down the line now I just want to see the overall specs yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":358.16,"end_s":367.44,"text":"nice so Max performance is reads up to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":361.6,"end_s":371.4,"text":"740 mbes per second with rights up to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":367.44,"end_s":377.639,"text":"690 megabytes per second and with up to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":371.4,"end_s":379.56,"text":"100,000 4K random right iops holy smokes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":377.639,"end_s":386.56,"text":"thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the OCC Ibis Ibis","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":384.24,"end_s":391.56,"text":"hopefully someone can correct me on that as well as their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":388.56,"end_s":395.599,"text":"hsdl interface card don't forget to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":391.56,"end_s":395.599,"text":"subscribe to Linus techtips","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"this changes everything it's it's it's kind of like uh it's kind of like this product in that respect it changes everything again SSD technology is moving so fast that it's almost impossible to keep up with it so we started out with simple ssds 2 and 1/2 in drives and honestly you know what performance wasn't great it wasn't even really in a lot of situations as good as a traditional mechanical hard drive so that's where we started then we got high performance ssds when Intel released their x25 series indel links released their Barefoot controller and all of a sudden ssds whoo now they're affordable now they're way faster than a hard drive then from there we got even higher performance ssds and now with the sandforce controller the Intel Gen 2 controller as well as crucial's latest controller we're running into the limits of the SATA 3 GB per second interface now crucial doesn't worry about that so much because their SSD actually uses SATA 6 gbit per second but SAA 6 gbit per second isn't even really mainstream yet and not everybody has a controller for that so some companies are coming out with some innovative solutions uh including ocz with their Revo Drive series of D of uh ssds where they actually use a PCI Express interface to plug in SSD directly into your motherboard but there's also another way so check this out this is the Ibis or Ibis I actually don't know how to say it I'm not going to worry too much much about it because the name is not the cool thing the cool thing is this card right here because the SSD isn't even well it's neat but it's not quite that neat and this is what's important about it right there so SATA there you go so SATA is what are they saying 1.5 uh oh no they're saying it's what 3 gbit per second okay and then SAS SAS is up to about 6 gbit per second right now hsdl so that is I think it stands for highspeed data link or something like that anyway this is capable of almost 20 20 gbit per second so that means that we can take four sandforce controllers remember sandforce controller is almost able to max out a SATA 3 gbit per second connection we can take up to four of those at a time plug them in with the hsdl cable directly into our hsdl card and we can get just unheard of performance so let's go ahead and open up the box on ocz's Cutting Edge high-speed data link hey I got it right interface and it is the answer to the SATA bottleneck and the driving force behind the Ibis SSD so the SSD runs off of internal raid zero so that's how they're able to take four controllers so that is four sand Force controllers they put them all together here let me just see if I can get this opened up here my SSD is faster than your hard drive darn right it is this SSD is faster than a good number of hard drives together I'll tell you that much so there it is that is the Ibis hsdl 3 and 1 half in solid state drive so you can see on the side we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes this is your standard 3 and 1/2 in form factor we have your standard 3 and 1/2 in mounting holes on the back on the bottom rather standard 3 and a half inch mounting holes on the other side we have a QC pass so that means that it did pass the QC and on the back we have a St oh we have a standard bloody well nothing actually no we do actually we have a standard SATA SATA power okay so you can actually power this with your normal power supply and then we have an hsdl connection right there so it actually looks kind of like an sff 887 Cable in fact I think it uses one but that's definitely like not a that's a non-standard pin out for sure okay so you plug that right in there that's nice and that is the equivalent of several SATA 6 gigabit per second connections so you go ahead it comes with a nice little sleeved cable here you can see the individual wires inside there they're kind of silvery and look all nice okay and then you go ahead and plug that guy into this little card right here and this is where the magic happens because this card is a controller card now you can buy an IDE controller you can buy a SATA controller you can buy a SAS controller or if you want to oh I dropped it wow okay or if you want to have the most Cutting Edge performance possible you can buy this controller so here it is it looks real simple doesn't it basically what they're doing is they're taking a PCI Express 4X interface they're using the simplest possible card as you can clearly see to deliver as much of that performance as possible directly into your SSD drive so you just go ahead remove the little uh stopper right there the stopper the you unplug the top of the bottle that unleashes the power the power so you go ahead use one of your PCI Express 4X or higher remember you can plug this into an 8x or a 16x connector on your motherboard plug that in like that run that drive or wherever the heck you feel like it and boom you have performance that is Untouchable with any other solution on the market at this time and probably for a while although the the way SSD per the way SSD performance is increasing like every time you stop and take a breath who knows what is coming down the line now I just want to see the overall specs yeah nice so Max performance is reads up to 740 mbes per second with rights up to 690 megabytes per second and with up to 100,000 4K random right iops holy smokes thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the OCC Ibis Ibis hopefully someone can correct me on that as well as their hsdl interface card don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips"}