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yeah thanks so uh i didn't actually mean to drop it that

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hard when i was a kid ssds barely even existed i mean compact flash barely

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existed then in college they were prohibitively expensive and then for

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years the play was to have a one-two punch small capacity SSD for speed and

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you know chungus HDD for the big files

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but nowadays it's more and more common to see systems with no hard drive

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whatsoever of course hard drives are still cheaper

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but with their myriad drawbacks

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are they even still worth it i'll tell you what is worth it our sponsor

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we all know that for responsiveness and boot times at the very least any modern

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pc should have its operating system loading from a solid state drive even

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one as small as like 32 gigs if you're using Windows 10 you might be able to

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get away with 16 but that leaves zero wiggle room for file transfers on your c

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drive not to mention Windows updates but with that setup can you do multiple

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things at once can a single hard drive handle media playback file transfers and

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like gaming across multiple monitors or

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will it become a jumbled hitching mess of mass media

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in our testing we had no problem running multiple applications off the hard drive

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while transferring a large video file but just because you can doesn't mean

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you should too much multitasking can lead to thrashing which is when data is

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quickly transferred back and forth between the drive and the memory causing

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additional wear and tear on the disc remember there's a physical read head in

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here that has to physically seek for every reader write and if there's a lot

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going on especially across multiple files spaced out all across the disk

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the head is going to be seeking a lot more than usual to keep up

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santa has had native command queuing for years now which helps alleviate this

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problem a bit but not entirely it works

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by looking at the transfer of a large set of files and optimizing the order in

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which they're read or written to before executing the command

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this is better but is still a physical limitation that ssds simply don't have

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if you want to start multiple file transfers from a hard drive you'll be limited by how quickly the read head can

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move back and forth between all the files with an SSD response times are

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mostly limited by software your CPU or the interconnect to the host your

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processing power no longer needs to wait for a physical head to find anything so

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it just simply gathers it all up and starts pushing it through like some kind

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of weird hose kind of like how our new chocolate

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a strategy many people use is to put the games they play less often on their

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extra storage hard drive because they're okay with taking a sip from their water

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bottle from ltdstore.com while they sit through the loading screens whenever

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they actually do play these games and fair enough because as it turns out

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once the loading is done hard drives are fast enough to feed games like gta 5 or

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even cyberpunk 2077 with the necessary data as you zip through the streets at

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1080p however with the new consoles coming with support for technologies

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like direct storage that allow the GPU to directly access a drive that ideally

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would be NVMe hard drives may not only cause stuttering and hitching but could

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limit the visual quality in your games as well to say nothing of falling through the

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unloaded floor but there's more to it than speed alone not only are ssds

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quieter because there are no moving parts they consume significantly less

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power as well if you want to add multiple hard drives to your build for

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extra storage you're looking at a potential noise increase and an extra 5

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to 10 watts per drive whereas ssds can use as little as 30 ml watts while not

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in use while this isn't huge if you're the kind of person who likes to get the lowest

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wattage power supply possible for your build it's definitely not nothing to say

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nothing of the extra heat generated inside your pc i know that one all too

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well i have so many hard drives hard drives are also fragile hey can i

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grab a hard drive real quick thanks

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how many times have you simply tossed someone a usb flash drive or carried one

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around in your bag without a care in the world with a mechanical drive even

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though things are locked in place when powered down properly a drop of just a

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few feet could be enough to render it inoperable

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there goes all your photos sensitive files and 4k movies speaking of 4k you

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may have noticed that media file sizes have been increasing let's say you just

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bought a 4k or even 8k tv will your hard drive still be able to

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keep up with your other components to access and output that footage fast

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enough or are you going to get stuttering during the climax of the film

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ruining your home theater experience well spoiler alert unless the film

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industry switches to 48 FPS as standard you probably have nothing to worry about

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4k blu-ray has a bit rate of about 70 to 80 megabits per second on average still

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well below the expected 100 to 120 megabytes per second sequential transfer

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rate of a mechanical drive even if 8k quadruples that bitrate

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number you can really still get away with mr spinner here our 7200 RPM SATA 3

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hard drive was able to play back 8k footage no problem and let's be real if

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you're purchasing an 8k display in 2021 you probably have a rig with an SSD

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anyway these days solid state drives are getting cheaper but they're still

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typically twice as expensive as mechanicals so we can understand why

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anyone would still be attracted to the older tech especially since there's

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still an okay option for stored media however if you have the extra cash we

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recommend shelling out for the SSD they're faster smaller silent usually

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use less power can take more of a beating and thanks to modern weird

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leveling techniques they last longer too even when reading and writing somewhat

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