 You know it really wasn't that long ago that any SSD was going to cost you hundreds of dollars But we finally got into the point where SSDs are reaching the sub hundred dollar mark So OCC has their onyx series of drives these feature an indolink barefoot controller Just like their higher end agility and vertex drives But the difference is that it does have lower end flash memory on it So that means that in terms of your maximum performance you only get up to 125 megabyte per second reads and 70 megabyte per second writes So it does suffer a little bit in terms of performance compared to a more premium drive but the advantage is that you're still going to absolutely smoke a magnetic hard drive in terms of the Random performance so for little things like OS and you also have the option of course if you're worried about those Sustained reads and writes of rating these drives up so this is a bit of this unboxing is meant to be a bit of a lead-in To another episode I'm going to be doing shortly if I can ever get the box open then That would really be a major step towards having that happen for me here, okay never mind This doesn't seal as badly as I thought okay, so we just pop that open there We are and we open up the drive so I've actually got eight of these and I'm going to be running them all on a raid controller to see what kind of numbers we can get If we team up a bunch of entry-level drives on a raid controller versus running One higher-end drive so here. We are we have an installation guide and warranty info OCC covers this I believe for three years limited warranty That should be on the back of two years on onyx drives, so you do get a slightly shorter warranty But in terms of price they are not even close to the other drives So you got to kind of take the good with the bad it looks like they're standard SSD drive So you've got a nice black housing this is a two and a half inch drive So it is compatible with either desktop or notebook computer On the back you find a sticker that you shouldn't remove because then your warranty will be void and at the back of the drive You find a standard SATA power and SATA to data interface thank you for checking out my unboxing of the OCC onyx and Hopefully you'll stay tuned on my blog for the interesting video that I'm going to have coming up as soon as I have time