 🎵 Truthfully, I don't much like doing SSD unboxings anymore. They're pretty much the same as far as the thing that's inside the box and what it looks like, but I've had at least a few people asking me about SanDisk SSDs for quite some time, and I was mildly curious about whether a non-SanForce based SSD would work in the Blackmagic Cinema camera that we're planning to purchase in spite of there not being any non-SanForce based SSDs on the validated list. So, first let's start with SanDisk SSDs in general. They're not exactly, you know, an enthusiast type brand from a, from a gamer's, a typical gamer's perspective. You might look at SanDisk and go, okay, well that's stuff that like, you know, camera people use whereas, you know, I'm going for like, OCC or whatever else. But for professional users, speaking of what camera people might use, they are definitely an enthusiast grade brand. So their SD cards and compact flash cards traditionally have been among the fastest. In fact, they have the fastest SD card available in terms of sustained write speeds at the moment, with Blackmagic specifically recommending their Xtreme Pro Series for raw recording on the Blackmagic Pocket camera. So, there you go. They own fabs, which gives them the luxury of being able to hand pick the absolute best flash for themselves. This equates to both an endurance and a performance advantage, and aside from using their own flash on here, which is an advantage, they're using a Marva, very fast Marvell controller and their own custom firmware to achieve performance that is at or near the top of pretty much every performance benchmark you can possibly find. Inside the box, I guess I should have mentioned that, there's an ESD bag, there's the SSD itself, it's a 7mm SSD and it comes with a spacer, so you can space it out to 9mm if your particular notebook supports that form factor as opposed to the slimmer one. And I guess that's all there is to really say about it. Of course, you'll pay a premium for this and any Xtreme performance, I mean it says Xtreme like right on the box, this and any Xtreme performance SSD, but whether or not it's worth the extra cost to you these days, particularly if you're coming from a hard drive which is so much slower than even the slowest SSD, is probably open for debate. If you are a professional user and you do need very good longevity, it comes with a 5 year warranty and you need Xtreme supreme performance and all that stuff, then I guess it's not really that debatable, you're probably gonna want to go for something like this. At any rate, it's available in 120GB, 240GB and 40GB configurations as usual, this is something I should probably mention, it's because nobody seems to know this, you can find the pricing of pretty much anything I unboxed by checking out the pricing and availability link in the video description, and I think that's pretty much it guys, like the video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on the video, if they're more complicated than this or this, and as always, don't forget to subscribe for Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.