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welcome to my unboxing of Samsung's 830 series solid-state drive this is the non desktop upgrade pack so we're gonna find out what is inside the more value oriented packaging that doesn't include the Norton just at myself Norton Ghost software or the SATA cable and the power cable or the three and a half inch to two and a half inch adapter kit ok so inside we find the samsung manual a digital samsung manual as well as an SSD so this is more like an OEM drive that comes in a retail box now the Samsung 830 controller is unique in though I mean if you've watched my unboxing of the 512 gig desktop version you probably know all of this but Samsung is in a unique position where they actually build and design every aspect of their entire drive nobody else does this Samsung is also number one in the world for SSDs and SSD components which is very very cool they do a ton of OEM business besides just selling to individual end-users so odds are if you've used an SSD at some point you didn't know what it was there's a very good chance it's a Samsung Drive moving along the 8:30 controller is also one of the fastest controllers in the market and does not rely on compression algorithms to achieve its speed they use high-speed flash which they've been from their own fabs and they make sure that they get the highest quality and the fastest speed stuff then they use their own designed and own manufactured controller to build the drive and achieve the best possible performance by cherry-picking everything for themselves they give themselves an advantage over anyone that is using any sort of a Samsung component that they buy from them in order to integrate into their own solution so the drive is a slim drive which means you can mount it in whatever you want including notebooks that don't accept the slightly thicker drives and some of them especially with the way notebook form factors are slimming down these days don't it also has all the standard mounting holes so you got you two on the side you two on the other more different side and your four on the other more different bottom you have a SATA power connector on the back as well as a SATA 3 gig see the three six gigabit per second data connector here and these tribes are fully capable of using that six gigabit per second connection by the way as well as your Samsung branding on the top as well as a beautiful brushed aluminum finish on the top of the drive the one thing that I wanted to point out is be careful when you're installing this don't get your grubby fingerprints all over it find somewhere awesome to put it inside your case where you're gonna be able to like see it like just use you know velcro to like mount it somewhere that just looks awesome because it looks awesome I mean if you're gonna have high performance stuff that's like all like chromed and brushed and stuff you might as well look at it all day right so don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos thank you for checking out my video on the samsung 830 series SSD that comes in the non-full upgrade pack but just the the OEM bare drive