 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Samsung 840 Pro series SSD. So moving right along to what makes the 840 Pro special. Three core MDX controller. Now this, okay, so this is a part of what makes Samsung special on a bigger level is the fact that Samsung is the only one who actually designs and manufactures their own SSDs. I was about to say STDs. They design and manufacture STDs. No, they don't do that. Their own SSDs from top to bottom. Everything from the controller, they design and manufacture it, to the RAM, they design and manufacture it, to the flash, which they design and manufacture, to the firmware, which they design and code and replicate? Manufacture? Everyone else is relying on someone else on a hardware level or on a software level. Next thing here is they're using toggle DDR2 NAND flash memory, toggle DDR2.0 NAND flash memory, okay. LPDDR2 SD RAM cache memory, AES 256 bit encryption is built in, which basically means that they take whatever password that you've created for your SSD, re-cadjigger it 14 times and make it pretty darn difficult to crack. So you can set that up on a BIOS level to make sure that whoever gets your computer is not actually going to be able to access any of your data. They'll still be able to format the drive, but they won't be able to actually read anything on there without some pretty serious hacking tools. Next up, we've got their Magician software, which is basically a toolkit of software that allows you to do performance optimization. So you can manually trim the drive. You can do like a simple benchmark. You can secure erase it. Still good, because SSDs are shock resistant. You can do firmware updates, so all that stuff that you'd expect from an SSD toolkit. This particular drive has a five-year warranty, so the Pro Drive is positioned above the regular 840. It does use MLC flash, which is basically two bits per cell compared to three bits per cell on the regular 840. They do use the same controller technology, however. So the main difference is in the flash being used, and that's another one of the reasons why Samsung gives this one a five-year warranty versus the three-year warranty on the 840, because they are expecting that MLC flash to put up with an enthusiast-level usage pattern for at least five years. My typical observation is that when a manufacturer gives you a three-year warranty, they are expecting it to last more like six to eight years. When they give you a five-year warranty, they are expecting it to last longer than that, because I can tell you guys right now, based on how much margin there is in something like flash and RAM and controllers and everything that's in here, they cannot afford to five years from now be replacing all of them. It doesn't work that way. They can afford to be replacing a very, very, very small percentage of them. One of the other luxuries that Samsung enjoys, because they manufacture everything that goes in the drive, is that they can save the best for themselves. So Samsung sells flash, Samsung sells RAM to other guys to manufacture SSDs, but it's all about binning. So if you guys understand the binning process, you know that what Samsung's doing is they're manufacturing a butt-ton of flash, and then they're going to go, okay, well, this is the grade A stuff, this is the grade B stuff, grade C, and that stuff's going to go in USB thumb drives or whatever else like that. And this is the other stuff that we're just going to put over here and then put that in our own products. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, customers. We got this. We got this one. So I think that pretty much covers it. The 840 Pro, if you have missed any of it that I said so far, is about as fast as it gets for an SSD today. Say the 3, 6 gigabit per second. It has a super fast controller. It's capable of something ridiculous. Like it's 100,000 IOPS on, yeah, reads up to 100,000 IOPS and writes up to 90,000 IOPS. So those are random. It has a five-year warranty. Did I say that already? Don't worry about STDs. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.