{"video_id":"YQEjGKYXjw8","title":"SSDs vs Hard Drives as Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:58:16Z","duration_s":246,"segments":[{"start_s":0.12,"end_s":7.48,"text":"which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.72,"end_s":9.8,"text":"is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.48,"end_s":13.32,"text":"going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.48,"end_s":17.48,"text":"that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.32,"end_s":22.84,"text":"different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.32,"end_s":27.599,"text":"faster I see many folks comparing 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you know an instant message comes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":52.559,"end_s":58.519,"text":"through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":56.039,"end_s":63.879,"text":"the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.719,"end_s":66.04,"text":"across a disc allows an SSD to utterly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.879,"end_s":71.479,"text":"destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":68.84,"end_s":75.24,"text":"modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":73.68,"end_s":78.96,"text":"much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":77.159,"end_s":83.4,"text":"store and that's your main concern it's 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the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":229.0,"end_s":235.159,"text":"house so head on over to audible.com tequ to sign up guys like this video if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":233.48,"end_s":238.68,"text":"you liked it dislike it if you disliked it share it if you thought that the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":236.56,"end_s":242.68,"text":"information contained within it was useful and as always don't forget to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":240.92,"end_s":247.04,"text":"subscribe to Techquickie for more fastest Possible episodes just like this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":244.72,"end_s":247.04,"text":"one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are faster I see many folks comparing the sequential speed of an SSD to the sequential speed of a hard drive and saying oh well they're kind of similar but the reality of it is unless you copy large files back and forth all day this specification is pretty much meaningless I'm serious it has nothing to do with the way that they will that you will perceive the performance in the real world ssds are all about little data transactions that happen all the time all over the place when you're running something like an operating system on them you know an instant message comes through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead across a disc allows an SSD to utterly destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to store and that's your main concern it's not like playing back video or music files or looking at your archive of pictures requires blazing fast performance so this is where hard drives still Excel at the time of filming this $160 buys you either a 256 GB SSD or a 4 terb yes a 16 times larger hard drive for that kind of difference in price per gig you could literally build two hard drive based storage boxes and have one of them set up as an off-site backup with the money that you saved by not using an SSD based backup solution so yes folks for mass storage of data we are a long way away from hard drives being replaced by ssds okay but what about reliability now this one's a little bit complicated hard drives are pretty reliable these days but as devices with moving Parts they will die eventually the good news is they usually give warning signs like uh if your hard drive is making clicking noises right now for example first check to make sure it hasn't turned into a dolphin then replace it if it is still a hard drive um but the bad news is that any kind of use will wear them out for ssds reading from them a won't really wear them out very much especially if you keep them running cool but if you write to them heavily you can kill a consumer grade model relatively quickly so I guess I'd put it this way in an environment where shock is an everyday occurrence such as in a notebook or tablet I would choose SSD every time in an environment where that's not the case then reliability to me is a secondary Factor after I determine my performance and storage needs which leads us to the in between solution hybrid drives these leverage the technology of hard drives and ssds at the same time but that's a topic that I've covered separately so I'm just going to leave a link here for you for that now speaking of hybrid Solutions an audiobook is kind of like a hybrid between reading a book and riding a motorcycle you know because it's informative and exciting okay I was reaching a little bit there but my Segways can't always be perfect the point is that if you go to audible.com tequ you can browse the internet's leading audiobook service with over 150,000 titles to choose from you can go right now and pick up a great read like The Art of procrastination by John Perry or if you don't feel like it at the moment right you can sign up for a membership to get a credit for one audiobook per month to use whenever you see fit and the cool thing about that option is that the first one is on the house so head on over to audible.com tequ to sign up guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it share it if you thought that the information contained within it was useful and as always don't forget to subscribe to Techquickie for more fastest Possible episodes just like this one"}