What SSD To Buy As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,182 words · ~5 min read
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the biggest bottleneck in your computer aside from your internet connection am I
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right is probably its storage as dis
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drives usually function and communicate
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more slowly than anything else inside a computer so it should come as no
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surprise then that many people point out that adding an SSD is often the single
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best upgrade for making your machine feel faster because unlike a mechanical
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hard drive in ssds complete lack of moving parts means it both access and
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write data much more quickly but even though nearly any widely available
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consumer grade SSD will be a major upgrade over a spinning HDD there can be
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a lot of noticeable variation in how different models perform and unlike
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trying to research what graphics card to buy where it isn't really hard to look
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at how many FPS a card will give you in popular games that you play both
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advertised performance numbers and bench Mark results for ssds can be a little
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bit hard to decipher so how the heck are you supposed to know what's important
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well we covered different interfaces and form factors in previous videos boop
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boop but today we're going to be talking about how to understand specs and
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benchmarks it's probably no surprise
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that the numbers that SSD manufacturers Trump at the
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most often don't have a ton of relevance to what real world performance is going
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to to be like usually sequential read
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and write performance that's how fast an SSD can read or write a continuous large
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file all in one place on the drive is listed right at the top of the spec
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sheet with higher-end drives commonly showing transfer rates above 500
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megabytes per second but while those
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numbers do matter if you're transferring lots of data at once such as if you're a
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video production company and you transfer a lot of video files
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around what often matters more for everyday use is 4K performance this is
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the measure of how quickly an SSD can deal with much smaller chunks of data
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stored in random locations all over the drive which is important because most
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things that the average user does on a daily basis whether it's web browsing or
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running a background antivirus scan or saving a Word document require accessing
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small pieces of data all over the place rather than large contiguous chunks of
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data performance can also be indicated
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in iops instead of megabytes per second
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this stands for inputs and outputs per second and is a measure of how quickly a
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drive can deal with read or write requests again unless you're using your
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SSD mostly for playing the copy paste
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game it's a good idea to check and compare iops as it relates to 4K
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performance another thing to watch out for if you're looking at Benchmark
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results is whether the test was done with compressible or incompressible data
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typically the compressible result is more important depending on workload
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since many ssds actually do compress numerous types of commonly used data
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from documents to operating system files in order to keep the SSD from wearing
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out too quickly and to make it perform better incompressible data though
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doesn't occur in the real world stuff like movies and music which have been
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compressed already into formats like MP4
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or MP3 so if most of what you're doing
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is working with uncompressible data then the uncompressed benchmarks will give
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you a better idea of what to expect and vice versa but aside from Pure speed
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it's also a good idea to do a little bit of research to find out what kind of
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longevity to expect from an SSD unlike a
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hard drive which has magnetic PL matters that can be written to indefinitely need
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a big asterisk here as long as the moving Parts don't wear out that's what
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that'll say the memory cells and ssds
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can only be written to so many times
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although most modern ssds can handle at least several hundred terabytes of
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Rights before kicking the proverbial bucket with higher end models being able
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to last a fair bit longer it can be relevant if you're planning to use your
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drive for more than a few years especially as performance will start to
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degrade over time time as the memory cells wear out a number of websites
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including tech report have done independent testing of just how many
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right Cycles popular SSD models can handle so have a look at those if you
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want something that will Soldier on for a long time I hope this helps you then
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in your quest for the perfect SSD whether you're building a new system or
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just trying to breathe some life into an old one just make sure that you temper
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your expectations because an SSD will make the system feel more responsive
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but it won't make that old Packard Bell in the Attic able to handle Crisis 3
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speaking of a crisis what if you found yourself at home with no fresh shaving
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supplies and the only way to get any shaving supplies was to go out to the
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store you went to the store and they had it all behind lock and key and then when
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you finally got the razor blades you so desperately needed they wanted like 20
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bucks for them and you were like what no
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Dollar Shave Club will take care of that by joining Dollar Shave Club you can get
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razors and other bathroom supplies shipped directly to your door for only a
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few bucks a month they've got razors they've got Dr Carver shave butter
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they've got their one wipe Charlie's peppermint scented uh face wipes for men
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you could use them on your face they're actually butt wipes but you could use
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them on your face as long as you don't use them on your butt first I mean you still could but please don't because the
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peppermint scent is not going to compensate anyway they've got pre-shave
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moisture post shave moisturizers and they've got travel sizes they've got a
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might imagine six blades and it's just highquality razors and bathroom supplies
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the US Canada and Australia and you can start saving your time and saving your
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