now the official video for today at the Intel campus is actually going to be on
the subject of Intel's SSD reliability their manufacturing and testing
processes and you guys are going to want to check that out on my ncixcom channel
so that's youtube.com/ ncixcom for those
of you who still haven't subscribe to both channels it's totally worth it the other one's really good
too this is just for fun so Intel has as
you can see basketball courts here on their campus there's the building you
can't really see it but there's an Intel logo at the top left not only do they
have basketball courts but they also have beach volleyball I don't know
courts pits whatever you want to call them however of the two Sports
basketball is the one that I'm least terrible at so for our cool Factor video
today we are going to be stress testing whether this Intel SSD can handle my
poor basketball playing skills so okay we're going force it to
watch well I go at this here and here we
go and up yes okay so what we're going to do
now guys is we're going to take this Intel SSD because as you know Intel ssds
in fact well ssds in general are all about reliability so while Intel has the
lowest failure rates in the industry in general they are still more reliable
than hard drives especially in applications where they're going to be subjected to shock such as in a laptop
so let's take this throw it inside a
laptop of the actual Intel employee the genuine one who is filming this episode
and find out if it still boots
up so here we are we it's a very simple
operation to change the hard drive in this notebook so we took our image Drive
threw it in the notebook it booted up quick fast as we've come to expect from
this ssds and the touch pad's not working because this particular Intel
employee prefers to use the oldfashioned keyboard nipple thing going on you know
move it around like that um so here just to show that it is actually working
we're just going to open something how about oh how about getting started there
we go so yes our SSD still works so the
general message here and this is going to be most of what I already say in the ncx tech tips video if you guys have
already seen that the general message is going to be Intel puts a phenomenal
amount of effort and R&D into making sure that their ssds are the most
reliable in the industry if that means uh a product gets released on a
different time schedule compared to their competitors then so be it so this
was uh shoot what series was this can you signal me like how many went after
the five was it a one or a two 520 oh
it's a 520 thank you so in this case the 520 series SSD was actually
significantly later to Market compared to their competitors with San Force
controllers but because Intel insists on setting the bar for where they want the
performance and the reliability and then forcing the product to meet it before
they bring it to Market they ended up rewriting dramatic amounts of the
firmware as well as making sure that they use only the highest quality of the
Nan that they manufacture themselves so thank you for checking out this little
practical demonstration I know it didn't really prove much but a hard drive
definitely would have died where the SSD didn't so we at least Prov that much
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