Samsung 830 Series High Performance SSD Full Package Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to an exciting unboxing this is the Samsung 830 series now I've been
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asked a lot of times to talk about the 830 series but the cold hard truth was I
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didn't have one now I do now I can talk about it because the sound okay here
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let's start with some context here guys Samsung is the world's number one SSD
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everything they are doing so many OEM
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drives they okay when you're Samsung you
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actually build every component of the
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SSD nobody else does that even Intel I
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mean they Fab flash so they do they do flash
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um they don't do their own controller anymore okay so let's find let's find
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other guys um Micron doesn't use their
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own controller they use their own flash but not their own controller I mean you
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look at guys like ocz where they're designing firmwares and they are working
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on controller designs and all that but they don't actually build it and they
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don't actually Fab flash they just get huge volume discounts due to their
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hugeness so Samsung is the only one that
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actually builds the entire thing from the ground up in every possible way what
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advantages does that give them well number one it gives them a cost
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Advantage so they can deliver high performance products at very competitive
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costs what other advantages does it give them it gives them full control of the
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creative process of creating the drive so if there's anything that goes well
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with the drive Samsung knows who to give the credit to if there's anything that
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goes wrong with the drive there's no one for Samsung to blame that gives them a
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vested interest in making sure that everything they do is really good
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because they're like yeah there you go there's no ambiguity about who screwed
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it up if something goes wrong this is the desktop upgrade version of their
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drive so it comes in a full retail box and includes a whole bunch of really
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cool stuff so you got a MOX TOA power adapter a SATA cable all the mounting
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screws you could possibly need whether you're installing it in uh actually well
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notebooks will come with all the mounting screws you need so these will Mount the SSD to this and then they will
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Mount this to your computer comes with a
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copy of Norton Ghost cool so this will allow you to quickly and easily upgrade
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your existing drive to your SSD comes with their interactive manual
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magician software and SSD manual comes with a hard copy of their quick user
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manual unpack look at this unpacking it has a guide for what I'm doing I can
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follow the instructions of how to do an unboxing atem page four
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unpacking check your product box for the following items please refer to the back
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of the package to see the installation kit you have purchased the illustrations
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May differ from your actual items that's pretty much what I do isn't
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it all right it also includes nice
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solidly built built desktop adapter so you mount your SSD here you mount your
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thing to your case and then even if your case doesn't natively support 2 and 1 12
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in drives you'll have no problem installing it so this is an 830 Drive
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the 830 Drive is pretty much as good as it gets out there in terms of
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performance it has a threeyear warranty and it does not have the same
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disadvantage that a sandforce controller has where it performs really well with
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compressible data it's doing data compression on the Fly and uncompression
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on the fly when it's writing and reading what that means is in order to achieve
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the speeds they've gone for they need a faster well not a faster controller they
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need faster Flash and they need to very very carefully build it and tune it in
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order to ensure that sandforce doesn't absolutely blow it away when it comes to
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compressible data so a Samsung Drive will perform the same regardless of what
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you're doing on it compared to a sandforce drive will perform
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significantly better in certain applications and significantly worse in
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others uh one of the other oh yeah this is one of the other things one of the
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other things that Samsung has an advantage of with when they're building
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their own stuff is that they get to keep all the best for themselves flash is all
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about binning so if you guys don't understand the binning process we actually have an ncx Tech tips episode
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that's all about binning what it means but what in a nutshell it means that
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they produce a bunch of Flash and cherry pick everything they want and then
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anything they don't want well that can go to someone else to build USB thumb
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drives what do they care they took the best stuff they used it in their own
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products to make sure that their customers get the absolute cream of the
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crop that gives you better reliability it gives you better speeds and it gives
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you well in terms of for Samsung it gives them lower RMA rates and better
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brand perception so it's good for absolutely everybody um so there's your
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Samsung logo there's your brush Metal finish there's your capacity indication
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on the side you find your standard mounting holes on the other side you
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find your other more different standard mounting holes and then on the bottom you find your completely more different
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than those standard mounting holes depending on what kind of a notebook you
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have this is also a slim SSD which is great because it means that you can
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install it anywhere um some notebook computers only have
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room for slim ssds so there's a there's about that much more on some ssds makes
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them a little bit thicker so whoops I almost dropped it but I didn't but it
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wouldn't have mattered because Flash is very durable and is can can handle that
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on the back we find our SATA power connector as well as our SATA 3 6 gbit
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per second interface and I think that pretty much covers it for now don't
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