 This unboxing is more of a lead-in to an NCIX tech tips topic that I'm going to be working on soon I'm gonna actually be doing thanks to Hitachi actually big thanks to Hitachi for providing us with the drives for this topic But we are finally after many many many requests going to be doing an NCIX tech tips on Configuring raid so I'm going to be using the Hitachi desk star three and a half inch drive This is a 7200 rpm drive with 32 megs of cache I have three drives in one terabyte capacity, so I'm going to be showing raid zero raid one as well as raid five Okay, this is their HD 3100 series drive So this is their latest series of drives, and I'm gonna go ahead and open the box now This is I think the first time I've ever actually unboxed a retail box hard drive because Mostly NCIX where I work being an online store We don't really stock a whole lot of retail box hard drives because it's a lot easier to just ship a drive than to Ship a big box so here is the packaging that it comes in clever little plastic thing then we have Wow a hard drive installation guide I have never seen one of these before so they show you how to connect the SATA power and SATA data you can record your drive information in here if you want to Talk talks about Hitachi's warranty So Hitachi has a okay it says a one year two year three year or five year So I don't know which one it is for this particular drive, but let's you know what let's see if we can figure that out real quick Hold on it can be that complicated this drive has a three-year warranty It is green eco-friendly technology for industry-leading low power consumption, okay, so this is a eco-friendly drive as well You've got four hard drive screws for installing the drive in your case You have a SATA cable for installing the drive into your motherboard and then here is the other side of the little plastic Clamshell that holds the drive now Hitachi drives come in particularly shiny anti-static bags that are also moisture barrier bags and There's are completely sealed whereas Seagate just folds over a bag and then puts a sticker on it as I recall So you actually have to tear it open and you will find Do not eat gel silica gel don't eat it and then you will find a Hard drive so here is the Hitachi one terabyte hard drive that we are unboxing today It is also quite shiny you can see the label up close in HD if you'd like Don't forget to set your your YouTube to HD so you can see that label and all its labeled glory And then you can flip it over and you can see the controller Well, it's made by LSI interesting didn't know that you can see cash Can see some other stuff You can see the SATA to interface so this is a SATA to drive so there's your power There's your data, and it's a three and a half inch drive, so it uses your standard one two three or one two configuration for Mounting it to your case, so it's compatible with pretty much any case out there Thank you for checking out my unboxing, and I'm sorry for the delay Thank you for checking out my unboxing, and I'm sorry for this incredibly pointless unboxing But I have a much better topic coming up so stay tuned and it will all be worth it Don't forget to subscribe to both alias tech tips as well as NCIX com