the biggest bottleneck in your computer aside from your internet connection am I
right is probably its storage as dis
drives usually function and communicate
more slowly than anything else inside a computer so it should come as no
surprise then that many people point out that adding an SSD is often the single
best upgrade for making your machine feel faster because unlike a mechanical
hard drive in ssds complete lack of moving parts means it both access and
write data much more quickly but even though nearly any widely available
consumer grade SSD will be a major upgrade over a spinning HDD there can be
a lot of noticeable variation in how different models perform and unlike
trying to research what graphics card to buy where it isn't really hard to look
at how many FPS a card will give you in popular games that you play both
advertised performance numbers and bench Mark results for ssds can be a little
bit hard to decipher so how the heck are you supposed to know what's important
well we covered different interfaces and form factors in previous videos boop
boop but today we're going to be talking about how to understand specs and
benchmarks it's probably no surprise
that the numbers that SSD manufacturers Trump at the
most often don't have a ton of relevance to what real world performance is going
to to be like usually sequential read
and write performance that's how fast an SSD can read or write a continuous large
file all in one place on the drive is listed right at the top of the spec
sheet with higher-end drives commonly showing transfer rates above 500
megabytes per second but while those
numbers do matter if you're transferring lots of data at once such as if you're a
video production company and you transfer a lot of video files
around what often matters more for everyday use is 4K performance this is
the measure of how quickly an SSD can deal with much smaller chunks of data
stored in random locations all over the drive which is important because most
things that the average user does on a daily basis whether it's web browsing or
running a background antivirus scan or saving a Word document require accessing
small pieces of data all over the place rather than large contiguous chunks of
data performance can also be indicated
in iops instead of megabytes per second
this stands for inputs and outputs per second and is a measure of how quickly a
drive can deal with read or write requests again unless you're using your
SSD mostly for playing the copy paste
game it's a good idea to check and compare iops as it relates to 4K
performance another thing to watch out for if you're looking at Benchmark
results is whether the test was done with compressible or incompressible data
typically the compressible result is more important depending on workload
since many ssds actually do compress numerous types of commonly used data
from documents to operating system files in order to keep the SSD from wearing
out too quickly and to make it perform better incompressible data though
doesn't occur in the real world stuff like movies and music which have been
compressed already into formats like MP4
or MP3 so if most of what you're doing
is working with uncompressible data then the uncompressed benchmarks will give
you a better idea of what to expect and vice versa but aside from Pure speed
it's also a good idea to do a little bit of research to find out what kind of
longevity to expect from an SSD unlike a
hard drive which has magnetic PL matters that can be written to indefinitely need
a big asterisk here as long as the moving Parts don't wear out that's what
that'll say the memory cells and ssds
can only be written to so many times
although most modern ssds can handle at least several hundred terabytes of
Rights before kicking the proverbial bucket with higher end models being able
to last a fair bit longer it can be relevant if you're planning to use your
drive for more than a few years especially as performance will start to
degrade over time time as the memory cells wear out a number of websites
including tech report have done independent testing of just how many
right Cycles popular SSD models can handle so have a look at those if you
want something that will Soldier on for a long time I hope this helps you then
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your expectations because an SSD will make the system feel more responsive
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