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today I'm going to be unboxing a very exciting product this is the second to market say 236 gigabit per second SSD so this is the Intel 510 series this is a 120 gigabyte superfast according to Intel and I believe them superfast hard drive replacement drive it is high performance it is for desktop and mobile systems so this is a two-and-a-half-inch drive and it includes a desktop installation kit that is how they achieve that so here we find Intel's product information so you can see here this is a 510 series 120 gig capacity drive okay there's not a whole lot else on here other than the pack date which is january twenty eight twenty eleven so intel being ready for launches as they always are has these boxed up fully retail ready to go well before launch this box includes well we'll get to that once we actually open it and let's see what else intelius to say for themselves do more weight less superfast hard drive alternative rugged silence solid say 26 gigabit per second and three gigabit per second compatible now Intel with their usual tradition is providing or in line with their usual tradition is providing a three year warranty on this product and look at this top sealed okay this side is sealed let's break the seal just because that's part of what I enjoy doing there we go aah open this baby up I'm actually really excited about this so the first state of 36 gave it per second SSD on the market was the crucial c300 and here we are we finally have an answer from Intel one of the big players in the SSD market they really shook things up and they released the original x25-m so there's the SSD itself let's go a little bit further in and see what else we got ooh I love stickers I actually I actually really love stickers so this is a pretty nice sticker I would actually be pretty content to put this on something speed demon look at barcode alright just in case until needs to track their sticker inventory intel SATA solid-state drive here's a little thing thank you for purchasing in a wide variety of different languages basically thank you for purchasing okay next we've got one of those little mini CDs that I think are adorable nut up what's this okay installation guide and warranty all on disk nice okay next we've got more environmentally friendly packaging hey look at that it comes with a SATA cable it's high class not a very nice data cable mind you that's a very thin thin SATA cable I'm going to get your own SATA cable but my assumption is that this is in spite of its thinness and flexible you know you could argue that thin and flexible is an advantage for SATA cable it's got to be rated for say 26 gigabit per second because it does come with a say 26 gigabit per second drive if I could get it to focus we could see what it's called here there it is what is that amphenol cool I think we've also got a molex to SATA power adapter included in the packaging look at that a locking say to power adapter higher connector I haven't actually seen one of those before interesting we've got some screws there's case screws they include an extra one just in case and then here screws for the SSD itself to bolt to the tuna half inch to three and a half inch adapter and they include an extra one of those just in case as well nice little touch from Intel here's the adapter so you mount one drive on there you mount this in your three and a half inch and then you're good to go nice solid steel adapted okay now we get to the goods here so we've got a careful observed precautions for handling this device and that is a lot you can we break that sticker once you can see it leaves behind an ugly residue okay then we have we have some do not eat and the SSD itself so here is the Intel SSD 510 series it uses a silver housing unlike you know what I think the first SSD sample I ever got was this one right here so that is my intel x25-m 80 gig and it was black and it had kind of a little plastic rich thing on it so it could be installed in varying thicknesses of notebook mounting mechanisms so this is actually the next intel SSD sample I've received so it'll be interesting to see in terms of aesthetics and in terms of performance how far they have come so we've got some specs here there's the six gigabit SATA SSD so remember to guys that say 26 gigabit per second is physically identical to say 23 gigabit per second as well stay 2 1 150 megabit per second so you don't have to worry about any backwards compatibility issues physically now some older chipsets like maybe say 21 chipsets might have trouble with this a 26 drive although there's no reason to believe they would necessarily but just something to bear in mind Intel does specifically say though that it is compatible with say 236 gave it per second and say 223 gigabit per second so it's got its usual mounting holes on the sides usual interface at the back usual mounting holes on the bottom and ooh this is interesting ok ok it looks like we're going to looks like we're going to be doing a longer video than I had originally thought here because you can just dig into my backpack here find a screwdriver there are no warranty void if remove stickers on this dry so we're going to be opening this guy up and finding out what there is what mysteries it holds inside so there's one screw sorry guys I apologize because it's a six-minute unboxing of a drive already but oh yeah performance why don't I talk about moments while we do this so intel spec this drive for up to four hundred and seventy megabytes per second read and up to three hundred and fifty megabytes per second write speeds so what that means is that this is fully justified in using a say 236 gigabit per second interface now there are some say 236 gigabit per second hard drives out there that really don't even begin to approach needing that kind of sorry these are really hard to remove needing that kind of bandwidth for the amount of data that they can actually read and write sequentially now this drive also uses actual okay I'm not going to spell that surprised but in terms of its spec its spec for up to 20,000 4k random reads per second and fifty thousand 4k random writes per second okay uses here we go intel flash this is 34 nanometer flash and a marvel controller let's go ahead and take this PCB out of here so it's double-sided ok so we've got eight chips on the one side ate chips as well as what appears to be a cache so we've got a controller a cache and then a 16 chip solution intel also saw calls out that it's specifically compatible if there's six series chipsets although it'll work just fine probably with any other say 236 gigabit per second controller and it is available in two capacities the 120 gig that we are looking at here today and at launch it is also available in a 250 gig configuration do not take your drive apart the way that i have i don't recommend it that is not what tech tips is all about it's about me doing it so you don't have to but other than that thank you 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