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today will be the most expensive item I have ever unboxed online as tech tips by a fairly significant margin I might add this is the OCZ V low Drive PCI Express solid-state drive and what makes this so expensive is the fact that it is a 1.2 terabyte yes a 1.2 terabyte SSD pretty cool featuring SandForce 1565 controllers that is multiple ones let's go ahead and get this party started so you can see it comes in a fairly plain brown box it is shrink wrapped so we're going to go ahead and relieve it of its shrink wrap prison and did it that didn't deter okay so this is more of an enterprise grade solution rather than being a consumer-oriented so no the expectation from OCZ is not that average Joe is spending five grand on 1.2 terabyte SSD for his gaming system but there is a market for this stuff so the product does exist let's go ahead and take off the cover as you can imagine they don't you know produce a ton of these so there isn't like a special box just for the one point two terabyte SSD let's see what we got inside here so first we have a low profile bracket which also includes what else is in here some thermal interface material DIY and a heatsink all right so we've got a heatsink and a thermal pad oh ok so it looks like when you put on the low profile bracket the heatsink is no longer attached so you have to attach you have to attach a new one there's actually ventilation back here so this must be a pretty toasty card in an installed scenario okay so next we have sorry guys my battery died got it replaced now and here it is the 1.2 terabyte v low drive so how many SandForce controllers do we have we have one two three four so this is a double-decker PCB much like the Revo drive three X two products and they are using Intel NAND okay so we've got what is this six twelve chips per controller so I'm going to go ahead and show you guys the back so you won't see any controllers on the back because the controllers for this PCB are in between okay so what kind of density is that so these must be using some of the highest density chips out there if we have one point two terabytes so that's equivalent to four 240 gigs now hold on 480 no what are these things give me a sec you know what I'm going to confess I actually don't know exactly what the densities of these chips are but I can tell you that there are 12 times 448 chips so basically what it comes down to is how much spare area ocz has left so if you guys remember when the vertex 2 originally launched it was a vertex 2 50 100 or 200 gig and then they had an extended version which actually didn't have any more chips on it and those were 60 120 and 240 so depending how much leftover area or spare area they've left which I would imagine is quite a bit on an Enterprise Drive this could be anywhere from the equivalent of for 360 gig drives up to for 480 gig drives depending how much left over they have either way I'm telling you these are very high-density chips and this is a very very serious business controller card so here's that he think I was talking about before so right under there is in all likelihood actually why don't we just why don't we just find out what's under there give me a second all right so since this is obviously meant to be user swappable we're going to take off that stock bracket go ahead and move the screws we've got one more screw here that goes into that top PCB okay so this is a $5,000 SSD I'm working on right now and we're going to find out exactly what ship that is so that is an LSI chip LSI SAS - zero zero four I don't know what controller that is okay fusion MPT I'm not familiar with this particular piece right here but I can tell you guys right now it is made by LSI so unlike the Revo level consumer level as a PCI Express SSDs which are generally using sort of a more of a tier Tier three solution this is using a Tier one raid solution which looks like a serious chip in terms of the horsepower that it's delivering because you do have to have this cooler on it you can see the other side this one has the thermal interface material pre-applied so that'll show you how you are intended to assemble the low profile bracket should you require it has a PCI Express 8 X interface I don't know if I mentioned that before so that's giving you a ton of bandwidth between the system and the SSD itself and in terms of specs they actually include almost no information with the product whatsoever I guess the assumption is that if you're buying one of these you already know everything there is to know about it and you're fairly certain you need one because if you're buying a $5,000 SSD and you end up not needing it I don't know too many retailers who are going to be like yeah sure no problems bring that back full refund no big deal so there you go this is the OCC V low drive 1.2 terabyte PCIe 8 X SSD you saw it unboxed first here on Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe