WEBVTT 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, 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:19.199 wait. Before you guys say SE stands for slow edition, which has happened to us 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:24.960 so many times in the PC industry. I mean, think back. Even going back as far 00:00:21.439 --> 00:00:27.599 as like Radeon 9000 series cards, SE 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:33.680 meant slow edition or well, you know that other four-letter word that starts 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:35.559 with S edition. No, this time it means 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:40.719 special edition in a way that is not like special. It means special like 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:46.800 faster. So the difference between the Pyro and the Pyrose SE is that instead 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.879 of using async flash, which would make 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:54.160 the regular Pyro equivalent to something like an Agility 3, so that is as pretty 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 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:06.080 drives. The Pyrose SE uses synchronized flash, which gives you essentially 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:08.880 better IOPS performance as well as faster sustained reads and writes. So, 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.479 here we're not quite done with the packaging just yet. So, what does 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.080 Patriot have to say for themselves? These are pretty hoham sort of things to 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.920 call out about this drive. I think the stuff on the back is actually better. 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:24.240 MLC architecture means we're using MLC flash. Um, I might have said synchronous 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:26.960 flash, but okay. SATA 3 technology. Okay, that's good. 2 and 12 in form 00:01:25.759 --> 00:01:31.040 factor. But here, here's all the good stuff. Okay. Low power consumption. Yes. 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:35.360 SATA 3 shock and vibration resistant, which all SSDs are. Silent operation, 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:39.040 which all SSDs are, and free technical support, which not all SSDs are. So, 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 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 00:01:45.119 --> 00:01:49.720 okay, some like um specs of the drive. 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:54.960 Some other more different specs of the drive. 00:01:51.320 --> 00:01:56.159 Um hm, that's interesting. No, I think 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:01.119 these are quite generic. Hey, look at that. Installation instructions for computer systems, desktops, and servers. 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 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:12.879 550 megabytes per second reads, 520 megabytes per second writes, and 85,000 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 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:21.520 only way to go higher end is to get something like a Patriot Wildfire, which 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:26.400 has toggle mand. So, those are the tshiba flash chips. This is using I 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:30.000 can't actually open it up and find out which synchronous flash they're using, 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:33.680 but it would be using some kind of a synchronous flash because guys, there 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:37.680 are three grades of flash chips. So, right now in terms of sandforce 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:41.120 controllers, there's only the 2281 on the desktop side. That's pretty much it. 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:45.440 So, we've got only really one controller. And then from there, it 00:02:42.959 --> 00:02:50.000 comes down to the quality of the flash chips. So, async flash is the cheapest 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:54.480 flash. That's the flash that is going to give you slightly less performance. 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:57.360 Synchronous flash is more expensive flash than async and it comes with 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.760 slightly higher performance. And then finally at the very top end are toggle 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:06.879 chips which are these special tshiba ones that are even faster. U but the 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:10.400 difference between toggle chips and sync flash is not as pronounced as the 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.560 difference between sync flash and async flash. So uh this represents kind of the 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:18.400 the bang for the buck option in the middle. And it's pretty much standard 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 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 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:33.760 pretty much any notebook, including uh MacBooks, uh desk, rather, uh Windows 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:37.680 PCs. There's your SATA power. There's your SATA data. So, what we're actually 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.360 going to be using this drive for is for some Fraps recording. So, uh that was 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.599 why we went ahead and unboxed this. We're also going to be looking at using 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 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 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:58.879 at what kind of a performance difference we can get using a dual SSD RAID array 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:03.360 versus a larger hard drive rate array in terms of the read and write pure 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:07.840 throughput performance we can get for users who for example might be working 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:10.640 with very large files uh whether it's video editing or image editing. So 00:04:09.519 --> 00:04:14.799 that's one of the other things that's going to be upcoming on my NCIXCOM 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:17.759 channel with this particular drive. So, thank you for checking out this unboxing 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.