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now this is something that's really interesting and I'm in the Sun box and actually going to focus a little bit less on the product itself and a little bit more on the heritage of this particular product so this is the OCC octane SSD this is a SATA 3 six gigabit per second SSD drive which means it's very modern okay now unlike most of the modern SSDs out there this does not use a Marvella controller it does not use a sand force controller so what does it use this is one of the few products on the market that is actually unique and proprietary and why shouldn't a proprietary because it complies to standards like you know SATA 3 but it's actually unique and different and has a value mat that is in some way separated from what its competitors are able to do in the marketplace and I'm going to explain what it has get this package open no this uses an in the Lynx controller and you know o in the Lynx controller I remember those but no this is a new a new controller so this uses the all-new Inglot in English in the Lynx Everest architecture which is an updated into Lynx controller something happened to into Lynx well they used to make controllers on their own and they used to be the kind of top dog it was indolence versus Intel in those days with you know J micron having their stuttering issues and then they kind of fell by the wayside when sad force released their SATA to competitor and then their SATA 3 drive just kind of came out of nowhere and absolutely everything away so OCC acquired them and they've been quietly working on a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second chipset so this is the average controller and what it does is unlike SandForce and one of the cool things about SandForce this is what was so revolutionary particularly about the first time first controller the sad force controller compresses the data as it's being written to the drive and then decompresses it as it's being read from the drive so that allows it to actually read and write more than it's actually even reading and writing which means that the performance of the drive is higher than the actual performance of the flash which is cool right however there are limitations to that architecture so some things that you're gonna have to work with some large files are not going to be very compressible this is called non compressible data when you're working like a text document is very easy to compress but not all multimedia type files in fact there's a lot of files such as files that are compressed already if something is if already there's not a whole lot more compression that can be done so non compressible files perform significantly worse on a set force drive than they do on competing drives so what in the links has achieved here is they've made a controller that is focused on non compressible data which means that no matter what usage scenario you're looking at it will perform exactly the same whereas a SandForce Drive performs better at compressible and not as well on non compressible data so hopefully that's enough information for you guys so how well did they do basically it is competitive with Sam force on compressible data and beats it on non compressible data so I'd say yes they achieve their goal very cool it's also the first SSD that's available in capacities up to one terabyte on a single controller which is sort of an interesting fact but probably you're relevant to most consumers it uses mlc flash ok it has trim support it sure as heck better it has raid support which also it sure as heck better ah here we go all-around performance and optimized for compressed files such as mp3s JPEGs Raw's PSD s OS X software interesting and taking multimedia applications to the next level so there pretty much that's a way of saying what I said in a very long time in like one sentence so way to go OCZ my SSD is your hard drive comes with a cool little sticker totally standard drive so it's two-and-a-half inch which means you got your mounting holes here and here your mounting holes here and here here here and here and here you've got your SATA 3 6 gigabit per second interface here there's your data there's your power and I think I've said pretty much everything I wanted to this is the octane 128 gig and as you go up in capacity you do actually get more performance with these octane drives and thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the OCZ octane as well as a little bit of a history lesson I guess about the Sam force controller the indolence controller and how the new generations of products stack up don't forget to subscribe plunge tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer