1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:07,480 which is better an SSD or a hard drive honestly it's sort of like asking which 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,800 is better a motorcycle or a semi-truck all right so you might be sitting there 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,320 going that's a weird thing to say lionist why would you say something like 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:17,480 that and the answer is because they're really not that comparable they're just 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:22,840 different let's start with performance when it comes to Raw speed ssds are 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:27,599 faster I see many folks comparing the sequential speed of an SSD to the 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:31,560 sequential speed of a hard drive and saying oh well they're kind of similar 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:36,399 but the reality of it is unless you copy large files back and forth all day this 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:40,600 specification is pretty much meaningless I'm serious it has nothing to do with 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:45,559 the way that they will that you will perceive the performance in the real 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:47,480 world ssds are all about little data 12 00:00:45,559 --> 00:00:50,760 transactions that happen all the time all over the place when you're running 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:54,640 something like an operating system on them you know an instant message comes 14 00:00:52,559 --> 00:00:58,519 through a program launches and needs to access a ton of little files all over 15 00:00:56,039 --> 00:01:03,879 the place these are the times when not having to physically move move ahead 16 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:06,040 across a disc allows an SSD to utterly 17 00:01:03,879 --> 00:01:11,479 destroy a hard drive in terms of performance in system responsiveness any 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:15,240 modern SSD will be easily several times faster than any hard drive and sometimes 19 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,960 much more than that okay that's great but what if you have lots of data to 20 00:01:17,159 --> 00:01:23,400 store and that's your main concern it's not like playing back video or music 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:28,560 files or looking at your archive of pictures requires blazing fast 22 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:37,320 performance so this is where hard drives still Excel at the time of filming this 23 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:41,680 $160 buys you either a 256 GB SSD or a 4 24 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:43,920 terb yes a 16 times larger hard drive 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:48,560 for that kind of difference in price per gig you could literally build two hard 26 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:52,079 drive based storage boxes and have one of them set up as an off-site backup 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:57,280 with the money that you saved by not using an SSD based backup solution so 28 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,159 yes folks for mass storage of data we are a long way away from hard drives 29 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:06,240 being replaced by ssds okay but what about reliability now this one's a 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:10,959 little bit complicated hard drives are pretty reliable these days but as 31 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:15,120 devices with moving Parts they will die eventually the good news is they usually 32 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:18,840 give warning signs like uh if your hard drive is making clicking noises right 33 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:23,040 now for example first check to make sure it hasn't turned into a dolphin then 34 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:29,120 replace it if it is still a hard drive um but the bad news is that any kind of 35 00:02:25,519 --> 00:02:31,599 use will wear them out for ssds reading 36 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:36,040 from them a won't really wear them out very much especially if you keep them 37 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:41,519 running cool but if you write to them heavily you can kill a consumer grade 38 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,560 model relatively quickly so I guess I'd 39 00:02:41,519 --> 00:02:48,239 put it this way in an environment where shock is an everyday occurrence such as 40 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:53,040 in a notebook or tablet I would choose SSD every time in an environment where 41 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:57,920 that's not the case then reliability to me is a secondary Factor after I 42 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:03,000 determine my performance and storage needs which leads us to the in between 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:08,200 solution hybrid drives these leverage the technology of hard drives and ssds 44 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:11,400 at the same time but that's a topic that I've covered separately so I'm just 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,560 going to leave a link here for you for that now speaking of hybrid Solutions an 46 00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:19,159 audiobook is kind of like a hybrid between reading a book and riding a 47 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:23,440 motorcycle you know because it's informative and exciting okay I was 48 00:03:21,959 --> 00:03:27,080 reaching a little bit there but my Segways 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