OCZ Onyx 32GB Value Indilinx SSD Solid State SATA2 Drive Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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you know it really wasn't that long ago that any SSD was going to cost you
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hundreds of dollars but we finally gotten to the point where ssds are
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reaching the sub $100 Mark so ocz has
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their Onyx series of drives these feature an indel link Barefoot
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controller just like their higher-end agility and vertex drives but the
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difference is that it does have lower-end flash memory on it so that
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means that in terms of your maximum performance you only get up to 125 mb
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per second reads and 70 MB perss rights so it does suffer a little bit in terms
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of performance compared to a more premium drive but the advantage is that
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you're still going to absolutely smoke a
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magnetic hard drive in terms of the um the random performance so for little
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things like OS and you also have the option of course if you're worried about
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those uh sustained reads and rights of raiding these drives up so this is a bit
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of a this unboxing is meant to be a bit of a lead in to another episode I'm
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going to be doing shortly if I can ever get the Box open then
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um that would really be a major step towards having that happen for me here
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oh okay never mind this doesn't sealed as badly as I thought okay so we just
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pop that open there we are and we open up the drive so I've actually got eight
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of these and I'm going to be running them all on a RAID controller to see
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what kind of numbers we can get if we team up a bunch of entry level drives uh
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on a RAID controller versus running uh
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one higher end drive so here we are we have an installation guide and warranty
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info ocz covers this I believe for 3 years uh limited
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warranty uh that should be on the back oh two years on onyx drives so you do
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get a slightly shorter warranty but in terms of price they are not even close
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to the other drives so you got to kind of take the good with the bad it looks
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like they're standard SSD drive so you got a nice black housing this is a 2 and
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1/2 in Drive so it is compatible with either desktop
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or notebook computer on the back you find a sticker
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that you shouldn't remove because then your warranty will be void and at the
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back of the drive you find a standard SATA power and SATA 2 Data interface
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ocz Onyx and uh hopefully you'll
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stay tuned on my blog for the uh
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interesting video that I'm going to have coming up as soon as I have time