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I had some requests after my SSD versus hard drive Tech tips why don't you try a

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faster hard drive so I thought you know what I'll do you one better because it

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was a bit of an unfair comparison that time I had the vertex Le which is ocz's

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fastest SSD and I had it against it's a good hard drive don't get me wrong the

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wd1 TB black is an exceptional hard drive but it is a 7200 RPM drive and is

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therefore a little bit limited so okay here first things first I'm going to

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press the buttons on my two test bed PCS here at the same time get those booting

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up so I have changed to a 10,000 RPM

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drive I'm now using a Western Digital Raptor 160 gig I would have used a

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velociraptor but the reality of it is I just don't have one on hand and then

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I'll go one better instead of testing a super fast SSD against a 10K RPM Drive

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I've gone and found a slower SSD so I

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got a Vertex 60 gig drive to test

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against the Raptor 160 GB so I'm going to get the

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cameraman to have a look oh there msn's up okay so the SSD is now loaded and it

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is absolutely killing the

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Raptor so we might have to wait another moment for the the Raptor to finally

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there we go MSN Messengers

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done so there are a lot more tests that we can run here and I'm going to do sort

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of a quick snapshot of the same kinds of stuff that I did last time around so why

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don't we just launch Left for Dead 2 my favorite PC games see which one takes

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longer already the SSD is way out in the lead okay I'm going to cheat a little

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bit in favor of the hard drive here and I'm going to press escape on both

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computers at the same time okay so you can see that loads just as fast and then

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when it actually starts to load again you can see that the SSD pulls away

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again all right so let's go over over over over to single player and let's

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launch a single player campaign start

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game there we go and we are going to observe once again I'm going to

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hypothesize that the SSD will load the level

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faster let's find out if I'm

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right remember this is a slower SSD than

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we were using last time against a faster hard

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drive there you go we are

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yeah I wasn't counting but we're we're some some seconds ahead of the hard

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drive on this particular test and one of the other things that I I mean

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personally I really like about running an SSD is the fact that whenever you alt

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Tab out of a program even if it's a 3D program there's like a chair in the

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cameraman's way here I'm just going to move that you can actually see I'm

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holding alt pressing tab right now oh wow that actually went really fast for

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the hard drive that's um that's actually pretty unusual but either way with the

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SSD I have observed for myself that

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usually you can minimize and maximize things like games a lot faster that's

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pretty impressive anyway okay so let's see what else we got here actually this

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is a good one okay launching we're going

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to open just a it's an HD video file it's actually one of my video blog

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videos that's um that's not re-encoded so it's quite a large file we're going

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to open it in Windows Media Center see which one opens it

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faster oh yeah playing on the SSD and

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we're still waiting just to play a video file look at that there you go hard

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drive finally does it so alt F no F lock

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okay so we're going to close both of these alt f4 and the SSD closes faster

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even if I press it at exactly the same time so let's see how much how much

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further do I have to go with this because the whole point of this is that

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it was it had nothing to do with which SSD I was testing and which hard drive I

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was testing the point is ssds because of

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their minuscule response times will always outperform a hard drive

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especially in just your random mundane day-to-day tasks they're just faster so

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let's actually okay let's do a couple more things here for you let's launch

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Internet Explorer and we're not waiting for it look how long you wait for

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Internet Explorer to just load a web page okay I mean internet it shouldn't

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even be affected by your PC at this point in time but hard drives are just

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too too slow and it's not about oh well

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I can afford to wait 2 seconds yeah it's 2 seconds but it's 2 seconds every time

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you know show me another upgrade you can do with your computer that will actually

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impact performance by by cutting time that it takes to do things in half every

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time you do them anyway thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope

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that this has uh enlightened all of the naysayers