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hey guys I've got something here to unbox today that is from a brand that I had actually never heard of before they approached me and asked me to do a YouTube video about their product so this is from silicon power and like I said if you're in North America you might not have heard of them so much but there are parts of the world where silicon power is quite well-known so what I want you guys to do is if there is anyone in the audience today who has seen silicon power for sale and a shop near them I'd like you guys to leave a comment on the video and say where you're from so that we can get get a better idea of where silicon power is popular so I'm just gonna go ahead and start with the unboxing process here because it's so shiny when the packaging is on it so let's have a look at what this is the first thing we're gonna see here is that it is a two and a half inch solid-state disk it's part of their Belloc series v20 this is sand force driven so that means we are using a sand force controller this is a SATA 2 SSD although I don't believe it mentions that anywhere on the outside of the packaging ok enterprise-class cost-effective SSD built with sand force controller it's available in a variety of capacities from 60 to 120 and higher alright we've also got Reed's up to 285 megabytes per second and rights up to 275 megabytes per second they cover it with a three-year warranty it does fully support trim and that's pretty much it for the outside of the packaging so let's see what we've got on the inside with the silicon power SSD okay that's it for the box we have the SSD itself we have what appears to be I don't know okay we've got an introduction okay some some words of caution about not shocking it with static that's good compatible with SATA 2 ok so they mentioned it here low power consumption high performance low noise goal no noise so these are all traits of SSDs in general they've got a little installation steps outline and then a warranty card which you can fill out and I suppose you do you mail it oh no you can also do this online so don't bother doing that online okay we've got screws so we have eight screws so four of these are going to be to attach the SSD to the included soon a half inch to three and a half inch adapter and the other four are going to be to mount the two and a half inch to three and a half inch adapter into your case so they've actually helpfully labeled which end you should point the connector on the drive towards when you are installing it onto this dried sled so let's have a look at the drive itself here we are so it's got a nice golden black label on it silicon power branding not a whole lot on it beyond that looks like it is made in Taiwan okay so move around to the back it uses just a pretty standard black finish with with a little bit of speckle paint so it should be fairly fingerprint resistant I mean I don't know about you guys but when I install an SSD in my system I want it looking pretty good at the back we find our standard SATA power as well as SATA data interfaces and in terms of mounting we've got all of the usual ones so we have four on the bottom and then two on each side so what I'm actually going to be featuring this particular SSD in is the little guide because I've had quite a few people ask me well can I use an SSD for my OS and then can I use a hard drive for my data so I'm going to show you guys I haven't decided yet whether I'm going to do it on a laptop or on a desktop but I'm going to show you guys all the steps involved in buying an SSD adding it to your laptop or desktop and then using your old hard drive for storage don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips and thanks for watching