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this does not come in a retail box so though it will for you this is the ocz vertex 3 so this is a very very exciting product because it comes as a successor and as a worthy successor to the vertex 2 which is pretty much dominated the SSD market for the past considerable amount of time so that the vertex 10 CC had competitors that were like competing controllers that were not into links which was used by ocz as well as a number of others at the time out on the market such as in Intel where performance was not necessarily the strongest argument for getting a vertex one especially later on in the life cycle with the vertex two there hasn't been that much that's been closed or beaded in terms of performance and but but it was still a pretty close race you had competitors like the crucial c300 that were pretty close largely in part largely in part largely due to the fact that they used aceite 36 gigabit per second control interface so the vertex 3 changes all that it gives us a new sandforce controller this is an SF f 2200 sandforce controller and it also upgrades the interface to save a 36 gigabit per second so the one I have here today is in an anti-static bag comes packed in a foam thing like this the retail drives probably come with a two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half inch adapter but this one is clearly a bit too early of a sample for such niceties to be included the drive itself will come with vertex 3 branding on the top of it but you can clearly see here that this is just a plain black drive with a silver bottom this is a 240 gig version although the drive is available in 120 240 and 480 good configurations now the 480 gig at the time of filming is not really a compelling value at just over 6 hundred dollars or maybe it's like eighteen hundred dollars Rita it's very very high it's far more than double the price of the 240 whereas a 240 is approximately double the price of a 120 and so it should be and 120 is approximately double the price of it and another 60 gig on the market plus a premium for the advanced controller that goes into this so the vertex 3 uses updated 25 nanometer flash it uses as I mentioned before and sff 2200 controller it uses a se23 interface so if you want to come and have a closer look at the interface here there's your state of power and there's your state of three interface which looks exactly like say 22 because all of the changes that have gone on are actually on this side of the interface rather than on the connector themselves you've got all of your standard mounting holes so you've got your sides here as well as your bottom mounting hole so that means you'll be able to mount this in pretty much any laptop as long as it doesn't take a very small 1.8 inch SSD or if it has non-standard mounting which is very very rare so pretty much will fit in any laptop and with an adapter it'll fit in pretty much any desktop in terms of other changes ocz well okay let's let's talk about things that aren't changes so it still supports trim which means that if you're running the Windows 7 OS it will automatically clean up any deleted data and optimize it so that you're not going to experience any slowdown as the SSD gets into a what is called a used state okay so it does feature trim and is also fully raid capable now this is something that pretty much everyone puts on their SSD packaging and it's always been a little bit confusing to me but they've capable I can have a kind of look at the drive for a little bit rate capable basically just means SSDs perform extremely well in raid which has been true since day one and will likely remain true it uses mlc flash which is not as durable as slc flash but should still be just fine for consumer level use and it has added speaking of consumer level use it comes with a three-year warranty and as I mean between failure of 2 million hours ok so like we've seen with previous generations of SSDs the specs are actually slightly different for the different capacity so the 240 gig has a max read of 550 Meg's a max right of 520 Meg's per second and random right at four kilobyte this is aligned of 60,000 I ops the 120 gig is slightly slower rights at only 500 megabytes per second and the for 80 gig is actually significantly slower with only 530 megabytes per second read for 50 megabytes per second right and random right 4k I ops of only 40,000 so the I apps are actually the same for the 120 and the to 40 gig drive so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the vertex 3 240 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos can't wait to try this guy out