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truth in advertising

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whether it's the tact on resort fees from your last vegas vacation or that

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photo of the big mac that looks nothing like the burger you'll be eating the

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corporations are always finding new misleading ways to market their products

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and this is no less true in the tech world especially when it comes to ssds

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so sabrint sponsored this video demystifying some of the SSD marketing

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that's out there now don't get me wrong when companies claim that ssds are

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faster than traditional hard drives they are definitely right about that the

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issue is that typically the numbers on the spec sheet or the advertisement from

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the manufacturer while very impressive sounding and big

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in many cases seem to be designed only to make their drive sound incredibly

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fast now in this video we discussed

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which specs to pay the most attention to when shopping for an SSD for example an

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SSD will be able to read or write large

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sequential files something like a space hogging video file more quickly than

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lots of small more random bits of data

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like you would encounter with frequently used programs like web browsers meaning

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that the random performance specs are more relevant to the everyday user than

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the sequential ones but here's the rub there isn't any kind of

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body or industry association that oversees SSD testing and while ssds work

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very differently compared to mechanical hard drives and even compared to each

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other in many cases oftentimes the exact

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same tests are used on hard drives and

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ssds you see most quick and dirty drive

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benchmarks measure how long it takes for a drive to accomplish some task say

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transferring a large file but this kind of work is a lot more

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straightforward for a hard drive because fragmentation aside it can simply

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overwrite whatever space on the platter is marked as free ssds on the other hand

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often need to erase the data first and

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move some existing data before new data can be written to a specific block you

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can learn more about that up here but basically it adds more time to your SSD

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write operations especially if your SSD is getting full and doesn't have as much

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free space to work with and while it might not be difficult to measure how

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long this process takes the issue is that in the real world people aren't

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writing to mostly empty drives which is what many manufacturers use for their

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benchmarks instead as your SSD fills up from daily

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use there's more and more performance overhead due to data reshuffling which

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can cause real world speeds to drop off dramatically far below what's listed on

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the spec sheet then making matters much worse you have

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the fact that the number of random reads in particular that an SSD can do this is

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measured in iops is often reported while

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the SSD isn't also trying to write much data and in the real world there are

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many scenarios where you would be doing both reading and writing at the same

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time meaning that these read iops that are reported on the sheet can easily end

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up inflated throw in the fact that an increasing

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number of ssds employ complex data management and caching algorithms to

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boost drive performance beyond what should be possible with the underlying

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flash memory under certain conditions

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and it can be very unclear exactly what kind of data was used to get the numbers

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that you see when you go to buy a drive on amazon or newegg so then does that

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mean that SSD manufacturers are all evil and going out of their way to lie to you

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well actually probably not it's more likely that because proper SSD

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benchmarking is way more difficult and time consuming than testing a hard drive

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manufacturers simply can't be bothered to develop and run these complicated

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benchmarks versus the quick ones that they do on these mostly empty drives

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because it not only spits out impressive looking numbers that look great on the

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spec sheet but it also saves them time and resources

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and the thing is that so far this is only even bitten a handful of

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manufacturers in the butt because the truth is that many people who buy an SSD

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just want an easy boost in speed and responsiveness compared to their hard

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drive and they may not even care about the exact performance numbers

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but anyway let's say you really are concerned about

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how a drive stacks up before you buy it well for the discerning buyer we've

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linked a couple of websites down below that do more comprehensive drive testing

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using methods that closely simulate real-world workloads and then drawing

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conclusions from that so grab those reading glasses

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and get cracking it takes a bit more effort but this knowledge could come in handy for when

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you need peak performance for all that super critical work you do

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