Samsung 830 Series SATA3 High Performance SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of Samsung's 830 series solid state drive this is the
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non-desktop upgrade pack so we're going to find out what is inside the more
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value oriented packaging that doesn't include the Norton ouch just stabbed
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myself Norton go software or the uh SATA
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cable and the power cable or the uh 3
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and 1/2 in to 2 half in adapter kit okay
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so inside we find the Samsung manual a digital Samsung manual as well as an SSD
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so this is more like an oem drive that comes in a retail box now the Samsung
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830 controller is unique in the I mean if you've watched my unboxing of the 512
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gig desktop version you probably know all of this but Samsung is in a unique
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position where they actually build and design every aspect of their entire
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Drive nobody else does this Samsung is also number one in the world for for
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ssds and SSD components which is very very cool they do a ton of OEM business
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besides just selling to individual end users so odds are if you've used an SSD
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at some point you didn't know what it was there's a very good chance it's a Samsung Drive um moving along the 830
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controller is also one of the fastest controllers in the market and does not
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rely on compression algorithms to achieve its speed they use highspeed
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Flash which they've been from their own Fabs and they make sure that they get
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the highest quality and the fastest speed stuff then they use their own designed and own manufactured controller
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to build the drive and achieve the best possible performance by cherry-picking
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everything for themselves they give themselves an advantage over anyone that
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is using any sort of a Samsung component
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that they buy from them in order to integrate into their own solution so the
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drive is a slim Drive which means you can mount it in whatever you want
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including uh notebooks that don't accept the slightly thicker drives and some of
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them especially with the way notebook form factors are slimming down these days don't it also has all the standard
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mounting holes so you got your two on the side your two on the other more different side and your four on the
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other more different bottom you have a SATA power connector on the back as well
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as a SATA 3 G uh SATA 3 6 gbit per second data connector here and these
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drives are fully capable of using that 6 gbit per second Connection by the way as
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well as your Samsung branding on the top as well as a beautiful brushed aluminum
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finish on the top of the drive so one thing that I wanted to point out is be
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careful when you're installing this don't get your grubby fingerprints all over it find somewhere awesome to put it
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inside your case where you're going to be able to like see it like just use you
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know velcro to like mount it somewhere that it just looks awesome cuz it looks
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awesome uh I mean if you're going to have high performance stuff that's like
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all like chromed and brushed and stuff you might as well look at it all day
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right so don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews
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and other computer videos thank you for checking out my video on the Samsung 830
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series SSD that comes in the non full
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upgrade pack but just the the OEM bear Drive