SSD Durability Basketball Test at Intel's Folsom Campus Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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now the official video for today at the Intel campus is actually going to be on
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the subject of Intel's SSD reliability their manufacturing and testing
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processes and you guys are going to want to check that out on my ncixcom channel
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so that's youtube.com/ ncixcom for those
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of you who still haven't subscribe to both channels it's totally worth it the other one's really good
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too this is just for fun so Intel has as
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you can see basketball courts here on their campus there's the building you
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can't really see it but there's an Intel logo at the top left not only do they
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have basketball courts but they also have beach volleyball I don't know
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courts pits whatever you want to call them however of the two Sports
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basketball is the one that I'm least terrible at so for our cool Factor video
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today we are going to be stress testing whether this Intel SSD can handle my
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poor basketball playing skills so okay we're going force it to
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watch well I go at this here and here we
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go and up yes okay so what we're going to do
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now guys is we're going to take this Intel SSD because as you know Intel ssds
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in fact well ssds in general are all about reliability so while Intel has the
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lowest failure rates in the industry in general they are still more reliable
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than hard drives especially in applications where they're going to be subjected to shock such as in a laptop
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so let's take this throw it inside a
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laptop of the actual Intel employee the genuine one who is filming this episode
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and find out if it still boots
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up so here we are we it's a very simple
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operation to change the hard drive in this notebook so we took our image Drive
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threw it in the notebook it booted up quick fast as we've come to expect from
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this ssds and the touch pad's not working because this particular Intel
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employee prefers to use the oldfashioned keyboard nipple thing going on you know
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move it around like that um so here just to show that it is actually working
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we're just going to open something how about oh how about getting started there
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we go so yes our SSD still works so the
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general message here and this is going to be most of what I already say in the ncx tech tips video if you guys have
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already seen that the general message is going to be Intel puts a phenomenal
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amount of effort and R&D into making sure that their ssds are the most
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reliable in the industry if that means uh a product gets released on a
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different time schedule compared to their competitors then so be it so this
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was uh shoot what series was this can you signal me like how many went after
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the five was it a one or a two 520 oh
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it's a 520 thank you so in this case the 520 series SSD was actually
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significantly later to Market compared to their competitors with San Force
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controllers but because Intel insists on setting the bar for where they want the
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performance and the reliability and then forcing the product to meet it before
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they bring it to Market they ended up rewriting dramatic amounts of the
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firmware as well as making sure that they use only the highest quality of the
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Nan that they manufacture themselves so thank you for checking out this little
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practical demonstration I know it didn't really prove much but a hard drive
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definitely would have died where the SSD didn't so we at least Prov that much
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