I had some requests after my SSD versus hard drive Tech tips why don't you try a
faster hard drive so I thought you know what I'll do you one better because it
was a bit of an unfair comparison that time I had the vertex Le which is ocz's
fastest SSD and I had it against it's a good hard drive don't get me wrong the
wd1 TB black is an exceptional hard drive but it is a 7200 RPM drive and is
therefore a little bit limited so okay here first things first I'm going to
press the buttons on my two test bed PCS here at the same time get those booting
up so I have changed to a 10,000 RPM
drive I'm now using a Western Digital Raptor 160 gig I would have used a
velociraptor but the reality of it is I just don't have one on hand and then
I'll go one better instead of testing a super fast SSD against a 10K RPM Drive
I've gone and found a slower SSD so I
got a Vertex 60 gig drive to test
against the Raptor 160 GB so I'm going to get the
cameraman to have a look oh there msn's up okay so the SSD is now loaded and it
is absolutely killing the
Raptor so we might have to wait another moment for the the Raptor to finally
there we go MSN Messengers
done so there are a lot more tests that we can run here and I'm going to do sort
of a quick snapshot of the same kinds of stuff that I did last time around so why
don't we just launch Left for Dead 2 my favorite PC games see which one takes
longer already the SSD is way out in the lead okay I'm going to cheat a little
bit in favor of the hard drive here and I'm going to press escape on both
computers at the same time okay so you can see that loads just as fast and then
when it actually starts to load again you can see that the SSD pulls away
again all right so let's go over over over over to single player and let's
launch a single player campaign start
game there we go and we are going to observe once again I'm going to
hypothesize that the SSD will load the level
faster let's find out if I'm
right remember this is a slower SSD than
we were using last time against a faster hard
drive there you go we are
yeah I wasn't counting but we're we're some some seconds ahead of the hard
drive on this particular test and one of the other things that I I mean
personally I really like about running an SSD is the fact that whenever you alt
Tab out of a program even if it's a 3D program there's like a chair in the
cameraman's way here I'm just going to move that you can actually see I'm
holding alt pressing tab right now oh wow that actually went really fast for
the hard drive that's um that's actually pretty unusual but either way with the
SSD I have observed for myself that
usually you can minimize and maximize things like games a lot faster that's
pretty impressive anyway okay so let's see what else we got here actually this
is a good one okay launching we're going
to open just a it's an HD video file it's actually one of my video blog
videos that's um that's not re-encoded so it's quite a large file we're going
to open it in Windows Media Center see which one opens it
faster oh yeah playing on the SSD and
we're still waiting just to play a video file look at that there you go hard
drive finally does it so alt F no F lock
okay so we're going to close both of these alt f4 and the SSD closes faster
even if I press it at exactly the same time so let's see how much how much
further do I have to go with this because the whole point of this is that
it was it had nothing to do with which SSD I was testing and which hard drive I
was testing the point is ssds because of
their minuscule response times will always outperform a hard drive
especially in just your random mundane day-to-day tasks they're just faster so
let's actually okay let's do a couple more things here for you let's launch
Internet Explorer and we're not waiting for it look how long you wait for
Internet Explorer to just load a web page okay I mean internet it shouldn't
even be affected by your PC at this point in time but hard drives are just
too too slow and it's not about oh well
I can afford to wait 2 seconds yeah it's 2 seconds but it's 2 seconds every time
you know show me another upgrade you can do with your computer that will actually
impact performance by by cutting time that it takes to do things in half every
time you do them anyway thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope
that this has uh enlightened all of the naysayers