this video is meant to be a preview or I guess completely a spoiler of an
upcoming episode of NCIX Tech tips where I'm going to take a much closer look at
the Corsair f60 this is from their four
series of ssds that means it features the sandforce controller which is the
latest and greatest controller on the market I did do an unboxing of this
particular drive so you can see the accessories it comes with including a 2
and 1 half to 3 and A2 in adapter but anyway the angle I'm taking on this
particular episode is going to be what
if you were an early adopter for SSD so
I found the oldest SSD drive I could find in this case it was a some crucial
64 gig drive this is back before there were even like series names like force
um so this is just called 64 gig SSD drive here's the part number here this
was really the oldest thing I could find and I want to find out because I've
compared the sandforce controller I've compared a modern SSD to a hard drive
before but I I've never compared it to an old SSD so what if you were one of
the people who bought one of these for $750 back when they were current and the
the hottest new thing is it worth it to upgrade already because a four series
Drive is only $200 for almost the same
capacity and as we will see and I'm
going to totally ruin the surprise here so there's the four series drive it's
$200 at the moment on NC as we will see from The Benchmark
results that I obtained with it if you were using an old drive so here let's
find The crucial old SSD you can see that it scores only
1,147 points on the hard drive test so
this drive just trying to Benchmark it was painful it actually took about 30
seconds longer to boot up the OS compared to the four series drive so it
took about if I recall I wrote this down at work but it took about a minute and
25 seconds to boot up whereas the 4 Series SSD was around the 50-second Mark
okay and just trying to use the system was painful everything took so long
especially when I was multitasking because like many old ssds this drive
suffers from a bit of a stuttering issue so if you're using multiple applications
at the same time what will happen is as the drive tries to access data that's
and I'm being very figurative here here and here at the same time the controller
gets confused it doesn't know what to do and it actually can take longer than a
hard drive to access those two bits of data even though a hard drive actually
has physical moving parts inside that need to seek and find the data on a
physical hard dis platter so that was
one of the challenges with early ssds with the sand force that problem is
completely solved uh along with offering much better speeds on sequential reads
and writes as well so here are the scores let's do a couple quick
comparisons so the ones that are most relevant this is a kind of an antivirus
security software test so you can see that it comes in in at 10 mb/s so let's
compare that to the 4 Series SSD where you can see that we are actually
getting 22,000 marks in the hard drive
Suite on PC Mark Vantage and then here in the
Windows Defender test we are seeing a 10x Improvement at 120 megabytes per
second when we're using like a um a
system utility type program now gaming it did a little bit better now gaming it
would do well because sequential reads are something that old ssds were
reasonably good at where it's just taking one big long file and reading the
whole thing start to finish so even then even in the one that it did I think best
in yeah best in the San Force SSD Just
Smokes it now random stuff where you're accessing little bits of data all over
the Drive that's where the newer ssds
really shine you compare that to the numbers that we saw on the old crucial
SSD and everything is as much as as much
as all 50 times faster on a newer SSD
compared to an older one so there you have it we have seen that if you were an
early adopter basically it's from a capacity standpoint not
really but from a performance standpoint it's getting to be time to go ahead and
replace that SSD already thank you for checking out my video blog and uh please
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