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this unboxing is more of a lead into an NCIX tech tips topic that I'm gonna be working on soon I'm gonna actually be doing thanks to heat a Qi actually big thanks to Itachi for providing us with the drives for this topic but we are finally after many many many requests going to be doing in NCIX tech tips on configuring raid so I'm going to be using the hitachi desk star three and a half inch drive this is a 7200 rpm drive with 32 Meg's of cash I have three drives in one terabyte capacity so I'm going to be showing raid 0 raid 1 as well as raid 5 ok this is their HD 3100 series drive so this is their latest series of drives and I'm gonna go ahead and open the box now this is I think the first time I've ever actually unboxed a retail box hard drive because mostly NCIX where I work being an online store we don't really stock a whole lot of retail box hard drives because it's a lot easier to just ship a drive than to ship a big box so here is the packaging that it comes in clever little plastic then we have Wow a hard drive installation guide I have never seen one of these before so they show you how to connect the SATA power and SATA data you can record your drive information in here if you want to talk talks about Hitachi's warranty so Hitachi has a pen says a one-year two-year three-year or five-year so I don't know which one it is for this particular drive but lets you know let's see if we can figure that out real quick hold on I can be complicated this Drive has a three-year warranty it is green eco-friendly technology for industry-leading low power consumption ok so this is a eco-friendly Drive as well you've got 4 hard drive screws for installing the drive in your case you have a SATA cable for installing the drive in through your motherboard and then here is the other side of the little plastic clamshell that holds the drive now Hitachi drives come in particularly shiny anti-static bags that are also moisture barrier bags and there's our completely sealed whereas Seagate just folds over a bag and then put the sticker on it as at all so you actually have to tear it open and you will find do not eat gel silica gel don't eat it and then you will find a hard drive so here's the Hitachi one terabyte hard drive that we are unboxing today it is also quite shiny you can see the label up close in HD if you'd like don't forget to set your your YouTube to HD so you can see that label and all its labeled glory and then you can flip it over and you can see the controller um totally made by LSI interesting didn't know that you can see cash you can see some other stuff you can see these SATA 2 interface so this is a SATA 2 Drive so there's your power there's your data and it's a three and a half inch drive so it uses your standard one two three or one two configuration for mounting it to your case so it's compatible with pretty much any case out there thank you for checking out my unboxing and I'm sorry for this incredibly pointless unboxing but I have a much better topic coming up so stay tuned and it will all be worth it don't forget to subscribe to both a Linus tech tips as well as NCIX com