1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:14,639 Today we have a very exciting product to unbox. This is the Pyro SE. And hold on, 2 00:00:11,679 --> 00:00:19,199 wait. Before you guys say SE stands for slow edition, which has happened to us 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:24,960 so many times in the PC industry. I mean, think back. Even going back as far 4 00:00:21,439 --> 00:00:27,599 as like Radeon 9000 series cards, SE 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:33,680 meant slow edition or well, you know that other four-letter word that starts 6 00:00:29,119 --> 00:00:35,559 with S edition. No, this time it means 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:40,719 special edition in a way that is not like special. It means special like 8 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:46,800 faster. So the difference between the Pyro and the Pyrose SE is that instead 9 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:48,879 of using async flash, which would make 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:54,160 the regular Pyro equivalent to something like an Agility 3, so that is as pretty 11 00:00:51,760 --> 00:01:01,280 much as low-end as it gets in terms of Sanforce 2281 uh SATA 3 6 GB per second 12 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:06,080 drives. The Pyrose SE uses synchronized flash, which gives you essentially 13 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,880 better IOPS performance as well as faster sustained reads and writes. So, 14 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,479 here we're not quite done with the packaging just yet. So, what does 15 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:16,080 Patriot have to say for themselves? These are pretty hoham sort of things to 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,920 call out about this drive. I think the stuff on the back is actually better. 17 00:01:17,759 --> 00:01:24,240 MLC architecture means we're using MLC flash. Um, I might have said synchronous 18 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,960 flash, but okay. SATA 3 technology. Okay, that's good. 2 and 12 in form 19 00:01:25,759 --> 00:01:31,040 factor. But here, here's all the good stuff. Okay. Low power consumption. Yes. 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:35,360 SATA 3 shock and vibration resistant, which all SSDs are. Silent operation, 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:39,040 which all SSDs are, and free technical support, which not all SSDs are. So, 22 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:42,640 that's kind of cool to have. And you got a three-year warranty. And let's go 23 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:48,159 ahead and see what else we got in here. We got a little booklet, which shows us 24 00:01:45,119 --> 00:01:49,720 okay, some like um specs of the drive. 25 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:54,960 Some other more different specs of the drive. 26 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,159 Um hm, that's interesting. No, I think 27 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:01,119 these are quite generic. Hey, look at that. Installation instructions for computer systems, desktops, and servers. 28 00:01:59,759 --> 00:02:06,880 And installation instructions for notebooks. So, let's go ahead and take the drive out. This guy is capable of 29 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:12,879 550 megabytes per second reads, 520 megabytes per second writes, and 85,000 30 00:02:10,239 --> 00:02:17,280 random 4K IOPS. So, this is, like I said before, is a very high-end SSD. Uh, the 31 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:21,520 only way to go higher end is to get something like a Patriot Wildfire, which 32 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:26,400 has toggle mand. So, those are the tshiba flash chips. This is using I 33 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,000 can't actually open it up and find out which synchronous flash they're using, 34 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:33,680 but it would be using some kind of a synchronous flash because guys, there 35 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:37,680 are three grades of flash chips. So, right now in terms of sandforce 36 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,120 controllers, there's only the 2281 on the desktop side. That's pretty much it. 37 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:45,440 So, we've got only really one controller. And then from there, it 38 00:02:42,959 --> 00:02:50,000 comes down to the quality of the flash chips. So, async flash is the cheapest 39 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:54,480 flash. That's the flash that is going to give you slightly less performance. 40 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,360 Synchronous flash is more expensive flash than async and it comes with 41 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:01,760 slightly higher performance. And then finally at the very top end are toggle 42 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:06,879 chips which are these special tshiba ones that are even faster. U but the 43 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,400 difference between toggle chips and sync flash is not as pronounced as the 44 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:14,560 difference between sync flash and async flash. So uh this represents kind of the 45 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,400 the bang for the buck option in the middle. And it's pretty much standard 46 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:22,080 looking as far as SSDs go. So, you got your mounting holes on the side. You got 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:27,879 your mounting holes on the bottom, depending on how your notebook mounts to drive. Remember, you can use this in 48 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:33,760 pretty much any notebook, including uh MacBooks, uh desk, rather, uh Windows 49 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:37,680 PCs. There's your SATA power. There's your SATA data. So, what we're actually 50 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,360 going to be using this drive for is for some Fraps recording. So, uh that was 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,599 why we went ahead and unboxed this. We're also going to be looking at using 52 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,159 two of these drives. So, we have two. I'm going to use the box to represent 53 00:03:46,959 --> 00:03:52,640 one of the drives and the drive to represent another one. We're going to run them in RAID and we're going to look 54 00:03:50,959 --> 00:03:58,879 at what kind of a performance difference we can get using a dual SSD RAID array 55 00:03:56,319 --> 00:04:03,360 versus a larger hard drive rate array in terms of the read and write pure 56 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:07,840 throughput performance we can get for users who for example might be working 57 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,640 with very large files uh whether it's video editing or image editing. So 58 00:04:09,519 --> 00:04:14,799 that's one of the other things that's going to be upcoming on my NCIXCOM 59 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,759 channel with this particular drive. So, thank you for checking out this unboxing 60 00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:22,639 and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.