about 10 months ago ish we made this video called the solid state drive
versus hard drive torture test you guys seemed to like it but also voiced that
there were some too many variables with the old drive having all that junk on it
yeah we copied it to new drive but whatever today we're here to address those concerns also don't forget to stay
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Intel's new 750 series ssds utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never
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more just like last time we'll be comparing the performance differences of
hard drives and solitate drives as you might have expected but unlike last time
we'll be using a fresh os on these drives this time around we yet again
will have the older model one terabyte hard drive and a nice new fresh SSD but
we also have added the older model SSD and a newer model hard drive to get a
more well-rounded look at this picture in the test we will be doing clean
installs on the drives instead of using the dirty install we had on the hard
drive from last time this isn't to say that we've changed our mind we still
like doing real world testing i just thought that this time around we would
use give all the drives a new clean slate a new beginning and a fair chance
to fight for their category this isn't a proper sanitized scientific approach to
benchmarking these drives and we still suggest that if you're looking for those
types of results you should check out sites like storage review but while i
have removed the variability of junk sitting on the drive to make the results
more consistent i still think this is a great real world representation of
performance because we still get to see the difference between fresh drives and
older drives who've held together through rigorous use the first drive
we'll be looking at is the western digital one terabyte drive which is an
old dog for this race i used this drive for years in more than a few different
home servers and i honestly beat the crap out of it it was never really
properly cooled and was rarely screwed in properly but it's still alive so it's
got that going for it next up we have the shiny new six terabyte seagate
enterprise drive it's fresh out of the box and has either not been used or been
used slightly by lioness before this test but not much though either way it's
still super fresh and should be performing to the best of its abilities to give a solid performance benchmark
for modern hard drives then we get to the SSD starting with my aging samsung
830 series SSD it has uh
seen a lot i use this drive for benchmarking for a long time and i like
to keep those drives clean so naturally it's seen more operating installs than
any drive i've ever owned and last but not least is the badass 850 pro one
terabyte SSD this drive normally needs no introduction but it has a huge
capacity for an SSD of one terabyte like i already mentioned and it's pretty damn
fast so i don't mind having it as a representation of really fast new SATA
ssds now that isn't to say that it's as fast as the NVMe drives but either way i
installed Windows 8.1 as our benchmarking operating system onto the
850 pro and after fully updating it and installing all the necessary drivers for
our x99 platform system i installed open
office because we will be messing around with openoffice just like we did in the
last video in an attempt to show a real world representation of performance
after all that was done i just mirrored that drive onto my other three test
drives first up was restarting and loading up openoffice this is similar to
the test we did last time where we restarted and loaded up firefox to the
home page but should take the drives a little bit longer this time as
openoffice is definitely a heavier program this test should be fairly
reasonable representation of how long it would take your computer to be usable
when performing a restart next up was timing how long it takes to uninstall
openoffice then after openoffice was uninstalled timing how long it takes to
calculate the size of the c drive both of these tests were an attempt to
represent how long a fairly standard task would take on each of these drives
in conclusion not that surprising although it is
impressive how much faster the 850 pro is compared to the 830. of course this
doesn't mean hard drives are useless mind you you may have noticed that our
hard drive is six freaking terabytes and they come even larger than that if you
happen to need it that's not all either hard drives do tend to be a lot easier
to recover data from if you have some sort of disaster because of just how
they fundamentally work but then as you saw the ssds are
insanely fast compared to hard drives even the 830 the older one if you want
to learn more about the differences check out Linus's fastest possible episode on it here all right guys was
this the test you were looking for when you commented on the last video i know
i'll probably have to redo this at some point to some degree with NVMe drives
but i think that's going to kind of be down the line once they mature a little
bit and once we have more of them to try out anyways let me know again comments
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