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today we have a very exciting product to unbox this is the pyro SC and hold on wait before you guys say SC stands for slow addition which has happened to us so many times in the PC industry I mean think back even going back as far as like radio on 9000 series cards I see you met slow addition or well you know that other four-letter word that starts with s addition no this time it means special edition in a way that is not like special it means special like faster so the difference between the pyro and the pyro S II is that instead of using a sync flash which would make the regular pyro equivalent to something like an agility 3 so that is pretty much as low end as it gets in terms of sand force 2281 say 2 3 6 gigabit per second drives the pyro SC uses synchronized flash which gives you essentially better eye ops performance as well as faster sustained reason right so here and we're not quite done with the packaging just yet so what does patreon have to say for themselves these are pretty ho-hum sort of things to call out about this drive I think the stuff on the back is actually better and else the architecture means we're using mlc flash I might have said synchronous flash but ok se3 technology ok that's good two and a half inch form factor but here here's all the good stuff ok low power consumption yes say 2/3 shock and vibration resistant which all SSDs are silent operation which all SSDs are and free technical support which not all SSDs are so that's kind of cool to have and you got a three-year warranty and let's go ahead and see what else we got in here we got a little booklet which shows us ok some like specs of the drive some other more different specs of the drive um that's interesting no I think these are quite generic Hey look at that installation instructions for computer systems desktops and servers and installation instructions for notebooks so let's go ahead and take the drive out this guy's capable of 550 megabytes per second reads 520 megabytes per second writes and eighty-five thousand random 4ki ups so this like I said before is a very high-end SST the only way to go higher-end is to get something like a patriot wildfire which has toggle meant so those are the Toshiba flash chips this is using I can't actually open it up and find out which synchronous flash they're using but it would be using some kind of a synchronous flash because guys there are three grades of flash chips so right now in terms of sand force controllers there's only the 2281 on the desktop side that's pretty much it so we've got only really one controller and then from there it comes down to the quality of the flash chips so a sync flash is the cheapest flash that's the flash that is going to give you slightly less performance synchronous flash is more expensive flash than async and it comes with slightly higher performance and then finally at the very top end our toggle of chips which are these special Toshiba ones that are even faster but the difference between toggle chips and sync flash is not as pronounced as the difference between sync flash and async flash so this represents kind of the the bang for the buck option in the middle and it's pretty much standard looking as far as SSDs go so you got your mounting holes on the side you got your mounting holes on the bottom depending on how your notebook mounts to drive remember you can use this and pretty much any notebook including MacBooks desk rather Windows PCs there's your SATA power there's your SATA data so but we're actually going to be using this drive for is for some fraps recording so that was why we went ahead and unbox this we're also going to be looking at using two of these drives so we have two I'm going to use the box to represent one of the drives and the drive to represent another one we're gonna run them in raid and we're gonna look at what kind of a performance difference we can get using a dual SSD raid array versus a larger hard drive raid array in terms of the read and write pure fruit book performance we can get for users who for example might be working with very large files whether it's video editing or image editing so that's one of the other things that's going to be upcoming on my NCIX comm channel with this particular drive so thank you for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos