Intel X25-V 40GB SSD Solid State Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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837 words · ~4 min read
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so today I'm having a quick look at something I've never seen before and it
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is a retail box Intel SSD now that may
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seem like a weird thing for me to have never seen before but I haven't and the
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reason for that is I've only seen the OEM ones which come in like a little brown box you break the seal it has like
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a little manual in it and a drive and that's it so this is a retail kit so it
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includes all of the usual um information
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that comes on a retail box first of all they tell you the capacity this is a 40
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gig drive from the x25 V Series so the V
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series is pretty much like the M series except for a couple key differences the
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differences are mostly in terms of right now capacity so the M series is from 80
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to 160 gigs and in terms of performance
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particularly on the sequential reads and writs the V series does not perform as
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well as the M series which as you'll see
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if you check out the benchmarks for this drive online is not actually that
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important in terms of performance so a lot of people have found that this brand
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new V series is a really good compromise
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between price and performance so let me
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see yeah they actually cover that on the side here so they show you that in terms
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of rugged silent solid okay they're all
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the same in terms of low power they're all the same but in terms of performance
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it goes from the 40 gig with one check mark to the 80 gig x25 M with two check
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marks to the 160 gig x2m with three check marks the 160 gig actually does
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perform a little bit better than the 80 gig but in terms of real world I don't
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think you'd really notice it so let's get this box opened up and inside we
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will find a brown box okay so I've never
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opened one of these before so I don't actually know how but it looks like it's
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a there we go okay that's kind of sever so it comes up this way and there is our
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x25 V 40 gig SSD but let's have a look
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at the accessories that come with it first so there's a little tray it comes with okay that's very nice my SSD rocks
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sticker how can you go wrong with a sticker like that very cool okay and
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then we've got a little Intel uh product information cheet Intel sat solid state
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drive and it unfolds to reveal that
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Intel recommends that this be professionally installed blah blah blah whatever it's really easy to install a
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drive okay it comes with a warranty and
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installation guide disc okay so one of those little mini CDs and then in here
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we will find still more accessories so you got some hting screws five of each
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in case you lose one that's really nice of them to include and Intel actually
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includes in their retail box a 2 and A2 in to three and two and a half yeah 3
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and 1/2 inch Drive Bay adapter so that's really nice you actually screw the drive
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on to here and then with this particular adapter you can use the screws from the
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side to mount or even at the bottom to mount it anywhere a 3 and 1/2 in drive
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would go thank you very much Intel okay
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so let's get to the drive itself so we got our little observe precautions be
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very careful when you're handling this wow that is a nasty sticker so uh yeah
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if that sticker it doesn't show obvious signs of of being broken then you know
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you're getting a brand new drive so like most of the other Intel drives it
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includes a little plastic bracket around the top that's to allow installation in
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notebooks that only accept the thinner drives and then it also allows
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installation in notebooks that only accept the thicker drive so you can either um take out all four screws
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remove the little plastic bracket and then put put the screws back in or you can just leave it as is so you can
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there's not a whole lot to show you about this okay so you got your mounting holes on each side okay once again
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that's to ensure that you can mount it anywhere a 2 and 1 half in drive would go you got your mounting holes on the
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bottom and then you've got your standard SATA 2 interface on the back with both
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SATA 2 data and SATA 2 power thank you for checking out my quick unboxing of
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the Intel x25 V 40 gig Drive