 Today will be the most expensive item I have ever unboxed online as Tech Tips by a fairly significant margin I might add. This is the OCZ Velo Drive PCI Express solid state drive and what makes this so expensive is the fact that it is a 1.2 terabyte. Yes a 1.2 terabyte SSD. Pretty cool. Featuring San Force 1565 controllers. That is multiple ones. Let's go ahead and get this party started. So you can see it comes in a fairly plain brown box. It is shrink wrapped. So we are going to go ahead and relieve it of its shrink wrap prison. So this is more of an enterprise grade solution rather than being consumer oriented. So no the expectation from OCZ is not that average Joe is spending 5 grand on a 1.2 terabyte SSD for his gaming system. But there is a market for this stuff so the product does exist. Let's go ahead and take off the cover. As you can imagine they don't produce a ton of these so there isn't a special box just for the 1.2 terabyte SSD. Let's see what we got inside here. So first we have a low profile bracket which also includes some thermal interface material, DIY and a heat sink. Alright so we got a heat sink and a thermal pad. Oh okay so it looks like when you put on the low profile bracket the heat sink is no longer attached. So you have to attach a new one. There's actually ventilation back here so this must be a pretty toasty card in an installed scenario. Okay so next we have, sorry guys my battery died, got it replaced now. And here it is, the 1.2 terabyte Velo drive. So how many San Force controllers do we have? We have 1, 2, 3, 4. So this is a double decker PCB much like the Revo Drive 3X2 products. They are using Intel NAND. So we've got, what is this, 6, 12 chips per controller. So I'm going to go ahead and show you guys the back so you won't see any controllers on the back because the controllers for this PCB are in between. So what kind of density is that? So these must be using some of the highest density chips out there. If we have 1.2 terabytes so that's equivalent to 4, 240 gigs, no hold on 480, no. What are these things? Give me a sec. You know what I'm going to confess, I actually don't know exactly what the densities of these chips are but I can tell you that there are 12 times 4, 48 chips. So basically what it comes down to is how much spare area OCZ has left. So if you guys remember when the Vertex 2 originally launched it was a Vertex 2 5100 or 200 gig and then they had an extended version which actually didn't have any more chips on it and those were 61, 20 and 240. So depending how much leftover area or spare area they've left which I would imagine is quite a bit on an enterprise drive, this could be anywhere from the equivalent of 4, 360 gig drives up to 4, 480 gig drives depending how much leftover they have. Either way I'm telling you these are very high density chips and this is a very, very serious business controller card. So here's that heatsink I was talking about before. So right under there is in all likelihood, actually why don't we just find out what's under there. Give me a sec. Alright so since this is obviously meant to be user swappable we're going to take off that stock bracket. Go ahead and remove those screws. We've got one more screw here that goes into that top PCB. So this is a $5,000 SSD I'm working on right now. And we're going to find out exactly what chip that is. So that is an LSI chip. LSI SAS2004. I don't know what controller that is. Fusion MPT. I'm not familiar with this particular piece right here but I can tell you guys right now it is made by LSI. So unlike the Revo level, consumer level PCI Express SSDs which are generally using sort of more of a tier 3 solution. This is using a tier 1 RAID solution which looks like a serious chip in terms of the horsepower that it's delivering because you do have to have this cooler on it. You can see the other side. This one has the thermal interface material pre-applied so that will show you how you are intended to assemble the low profile bracket should you require it. It has a PCI Express 8x interface. I don't know if I mentioned that before. So that's giving you a ton of bandwidth between the system and the SSD itself. And in terms of specs, they actually include almost no information with the product whatsoever. I guess the assumption is that if you're buying one of these, you already know everything there is to know about it and you're fairly certain you need one because if you're buying a $5,000 SSD and you end up not needing it, I don't know too many retailers who are going to be like, yeah, sure, no problems. Bring that back. Full refund. No big deal. So there you go. This is the OCC VeloDrive 1.2 terabyte PCIe 8x SSD. You saw it unboxed first here online as Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe.