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welcome to an exciting unboxing this is the samsung 830 series now I've been asked a lot of times to talk about the 830 series but the cold hard truth was I didn't have one no I do now I can talk about it because the scent okay here let's start with some context here guys Samsung is the world's number one SSD everything they are doing so many OEM drives date that okay when your Samsung you actually build every component of the SSD nobody else does that even Intel I mean they fab flash so they do flash um they don't do their own controller anymore okay so let's find those find other guys ah micron doesn't use their own controller they use their own flash but not their own controller I mean you look at guys like ocz where they're designing firmwares and they are working on controller designs and all that but they don't actually build it and they don't actually fab flash they just get huge volume discounts due to their hugeness so Samsung is the only one that actually builds the entire thing from the ground up in every possible way what advantages does that give it well number one it gives them a cost advantage so they can deliver high-performance products at very competitive costs what other advantages does it give them it gives them full control of the creative process of creating the drive so if there's anything that goes well with the drive Samsung knows who to give the credit to if there's anything that goes wrong with the drive there's no one for some some to blame that gives them a vested interest in making sure that everything they do is really good because the Heike app there you go there's no ambiguity about who screwed it up if something goes wrong this is the desktop upgrade version of their Drive so it comes in a full retail box and includes a whole bunch of really cool stuff so you got a molex to SATA power adapter aceite cables all the mounting screws you could possibly need whether you're installing it in actually will notebooks will come with all the mounting screws you need these old mount the SSD to this and then they will mount this to your computer comes with a copy of norton ghost Cole so this will allow you to quickly and easily upgrade your existing drive to your SSD comes with their interactive manual magician software and insist Emmanuel comes with a hard copy of there quick user manual and pad look at this unpacking it has a guide for what I'm doing I can follow the instructions on how to do an unboxing at hem page 4 I'm packing check your product box for the following items please refer to the back on the package to see the installation kit you have purchased the illustrations may differ from your actual items that's pretty much what I do isn't it alright it also includes nice solidly built desktop adapter so you mount your SSD here you mount your thing to your case and then even if your case doesn't natively support to a half inch drives you'll have no problem installing it so this is an 830 drive the 830 drive is pretty much as good as it gets out there in terms of performance it has a three year warranty and it does not have the same disadvantage that ass and force controller has where it performs really well with compressible data it's doing data compression on the fly and uncompressed on the fly when it's writing and reading what that means is in order to achieve the speeds they've gone for the need a faster can well not a faster controller they need faster flash and they need to very very carefully build it in tune it in order to ensure that Sam force doesn't absolutely blow it away when it comes to compressible data so a samsung drive will perform the same regardless of what you're doing on it compared to a san force drive will perform it significantly better in certain applications and significantly worse in others one of the other oh yeah this is one of the other things one of the other things that Samsung has an advantage of with when they're building their own stuff is that they get to keep all the best for themselves flash is all about binning so if you guys don't understand the bidding process we actually have an NCIX tech tips episode that's all about bidding what it means but what in a nutshell it means that they produce a bunch of flash and cherry-pick everything they want and then anything they don't want well that can go to someone else to build USB thumb drives what do they care they took the best stuff they used it in their own products to make sure that their customer just get the absolute cream of the crop negative better reliability it gives you better speeds and it gives you well in terms of for samsung it gives the lower RMA rates and better brand perception so it's good for absolutely everybody so there's your Samsung logo there's your brush metal finish there's your capacity indication on the side you find your standard mounting holes on the other side you find your other more different standard mounting holes and then on the bottom you find you're completely more different than those standard mounting holes depending on what kind of a notebook you have this is also a slim SSD which is great because it means that you can install it anywhere some notebook computers only have room for slim SSDs so there's only there's about that much more on some SSDs makes them a little bit thicker so whoops I almost dropped it but I didn't but it wouldn't have mattered because flash is very durable and is I can can handle that on the back we find our seat of power connector as well as our state of 36 gigabit per second interface and I think that pretty much covers it for now don't forget subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos and thank you for watching my video about the samsung 830 series 512 gig SSD