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now back in the days of serial ata gen 2. when we were booting dinosaur

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operating systems like Windows 7 a typical high performance SSD would be

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rated somewhere in the neighborhood of around 230 to 250 megabytes a second for

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reads and writes which got me thinking when sony released

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sd cards that are rated up to

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300 megabytes a second okay technically 299 on the rights could we boot Windows

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from these and what would the experience be like

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these puppies have actually been out for quite a while but it took sony almost a

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year to send them to us because apparently

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uh they and along with anything else made of nand flash memory have been in

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very very short supply so what's special about them is not really the capacity i

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mean 128 gigs should be noted is

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pretty decent for an SSD from you know

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back when these kinds of speeds would have been reasonable

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but it's not that it's that because these are sdxc2 so these are uh s2 cards

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and high-end ones at that you've actually got additional contact pins on

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the back of them that enable these extra speeds now what that means is that while

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they are backwards compatible with devices and with card readers that are

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only sdxc capable to get the most out of it we are

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going to need a special reader so this is the uh the wow that's a terrible

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product name i mean i guess it's descriptive this is the sony uhs2 compatible high speed

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doesn't explicitly say it's an sd card reader but whatever minor details so

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it's usb 3 and it's got a compatible slot back

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there for all those extra pins now the reason we need this is that

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while sd to SATA adapters which you know would

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allow us to plug this into a SATA port

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do actually exist in fact we covered a particularly abominable one of them a

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little while ago on this channel takes 10 micro sds and then gives you one SATA

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interface these products because they're

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pretty stupid haven't been updated in a long time which means they're using very

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outdated controllers in fact this is only running SATA 1 speeds and that was

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the least of its problems in terms of performance so we actually need that

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reader in order to plug our card into

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the system at all oh we're also going to need this

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all right so there's our install

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drive

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forgot about this so

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you can install Windows to a usb device

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um i was actually a little bit worried there that we just it wasn't going to

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show up at all but you need a special type of Windows installation you can't

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just do it by putting a usb install disk in the system and installing it to it it

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doesn't like that so what we have to do is we have to create what's called a

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Windows to go installation

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now i've never successfully gotten that to work before

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so yeah so we're going to use a utility called

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rufus we're going to grab a Windows 10 image that we downloaded from microsoft

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and then we just need to point it at

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our usb drive and

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create a bootable disk it's supposed to just be right here

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so microsoft uh in their infinite wisdom

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stopped allowing you to create a Windows

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to go installer using the not the iso but the like

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Windows media creation tool version

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so what you have to do is actually find

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a disk so fortunately i actually just i

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when i was doing an audit of our of our software around here

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um i just realized some of our Windows installs

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were not 100

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correctly legit uh so i just like ran out and bought a bunch of them so

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otherwise i wouldn't have a genuine Windows 10 disc because otherwise we've

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done everything digitally but what you need to have is an actual disk

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and you have to create an iso from that

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so that's what we're gonna have to do here we're gonna have to go back in time

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and rip this disk okay so we've got a Windows 10 image

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that theoretically should work now

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your target drive doesn't have the fixed oh what the hell are we doing

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no we don't want to use this shoot

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we need this okay

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hold on uh

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no there we go no label 128 gig okay

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hopefully this won't give us any errors

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that doesn't bode well i think we're gonna have to get some

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lunch or something i'm really hungry actually

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here we are so that did take a fair bit longer than usual

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but by all appearances this is like pretty

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normal window stuff c drive

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sony mrws1 usb device

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cool all right so let's do some stuff then

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oh okay i'm feeling a little bit of leg

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wow actually hold up a hold on a second

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like you see anything measured in milliseconds you go it's probably pretty small

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but nine thousand milliseconds is nine

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seconds of average response time

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the main reason that we use SSD controllers

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and not sd cards is not the read and write speeds because those are

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sequential i mean the usb interface is part of the

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problem because compared to SATA or

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pci express NVMe it's much less optimized for random performance but the

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other issue is that an sd card is a relatively simple device it's just a

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little bit of nand flash and there's not really to my knowledge

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really any logic on it um compared to an SSD which has like

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these this complex controller it'll in a lot of cases have like a dram cache and

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it has many nand flash dies on it and then it can

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read from and write to them sometimes all at once in a very strategic manner

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so that it can optimize performance and endurance

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but even if it's not that bad i actually wouldn't recommend this as a daily

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driver system because you would kill your sd card

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probably very quickly it's like even though this sd card can

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do you know 300 megabytes a second reads and writes you can see we're at 99 usage

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at like one mega second total

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and that's because it is not optimized

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come on

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bear in mind of course that this is all on an eight core extreme

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edition processor or 10 core 10 chords excuse me

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it's interesting that even when it's basically not doing anything zero to one

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megabyte a second it still registers as being a hundred

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percent active with average response times in the three

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to five seconds range so we should get some drivers

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so we need a goal for ourselves we've got Windows running off an sd card

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but how normal is this experience

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can we game off it we need to get a game going and steam is

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still updating though i think this might actually be worse

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than running a mechanical drive it's writing at a whopping 500 kilobytes

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per second so it's clearly not doing a whole heck of a lot

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no the graphics driver is not compatible

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with this version of Windows how does it even know the difference

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that's stupid like looking at this there's no

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no there's no discernible difference here it's just Windows

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so maybe it's just that we need

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a bazillion updates which might be part of what it's been

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doing in the background here it's got 79 of them downloaded it's making

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everything so slow i really need steam to finish though

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a full day a full day it took

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over a full day

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for all of those Windows updates to run utterly ridiculous

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what we're doing now is with everything updated

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the game installed but i haven't tried it yet

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we're gonna find out how bad or good

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is the experience this

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is it okay we're in

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so the first thing that's noticeable other than that razer's

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gaming software managed to prompt me to install it itself

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is that our display is scaling correctly this is great

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so as long as no NVIDIA control panel though that's

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weird but this is showing up

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okay i really thought this was going to be a

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lot better without stuff running in the background

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like it's measuring it in bytes per second

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half a megabyte a second

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as far as i can tell it looks like we are ready to go to run

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a game so i installed doom which means that my

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drive is actually almost totally full like

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isn't that trippy opening up this pc

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and there's there's no drive there's just

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usb i just don't know how long it's going to

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take to launch

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that's not bad

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okay i haven't played a ton of doom but like

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that seemed like a very serviceable load time

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what did i do with this oh uh

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oh we had a hitch there

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hitch

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those hitches might have actually been anomalies

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this is not bad

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i am impressed

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oh there you go where'd he go

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get over it oh

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okay

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leg leg honestly this experience is way better

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than i expected you know i think the issues before with

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a little bit of lag might have just been anomalies because this is really smooth

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not bad at all

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ah i mean the game is called doom so you

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know i think we have our answer so

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can you do it the answer is yes

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so yeah it's a pretty crap experience to boot off of all things considered but

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it's not designed for that kind of use and they're blazing fast for just

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straight reads and straight rights and i still think it's

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impressive that it works at all

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i mean the fact that you can run Windows off of something

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this big and it's usable not to mention that like

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okay compared to when i got into pcs the capacity

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is actually similar to what you might have gotten out of something like a mac

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