Corsair Force Series 60GB SSD Comparison Against First Generation SSD Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this video is meant to be a preview or I guess completely a spoiler of an
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upcoming episode of NCIX Tech tips where I'm going to take a much closer look at
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the Corsair f60 this is from their four
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series of ssds that means it features the sandforce controller which is the
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latest and greatest controller on the market I did do an unboxing of this
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particular drive so you can see the accessories it comes with including a 2
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and 1 half to 3 and A2 in adapter but anyway the angle I'm taking on this
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particular episode is going to be what
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if you were an early adopter for SSD so
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I found the oldest SSD drive I could find in this case it was a some crucial
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64 gig drive this is back before there were even like series names like force
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um so this is just called 64 gig SSD drive here's the part number here this
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was really the oldest thing I could find and I want to find out because I've
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compared the sandforce controller I've compared a modern SSD to a hard drive
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before but I I've never compared it to an old SSD so what if you were one of
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the people who bought one of these for $750 back when they were current and the
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the hottest new thing is it worth it to upgrade already because a four series
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Drive is only $200 for almost the same
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capacity and as we will see and I'm
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going to totally ruin the surprise here so there's the four series drive it's
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$200 at the moment on NC as we will see from The Benchmark
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results that I obtained with it if you were using an old drive so here let's
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find The crucial old SSD you can see that it scores only
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1,147 points on the hard drive test so
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this drive just trying to Benchmark it was painful it actually took about 30
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seconds longer to boot up the OS compared to the four series drive so it
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took about if I recall I wrote this down at work but it took about a minute and
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25 seconds to boot up whereas the 4 Series SSD was around the 50-second Mark
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okay and just trying to use the system was painful everything took so long
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especially when I was multitasking because like many old ssds this drive
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suffers from a bit of a stuttering issue so if you're using multiple applications
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at the same time what will happen is as the drive tries to access data that's
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and I'm being very figurative here here and here at the same time the controller
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gets confused it doesn't know what to do and it actually can take longer than a
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hard drive to access those two bits of data even though a hard drive actually
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has physical moving parts inside that need to seek and find the data on a
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physical hard dis platter so that was
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one of the challenges with early ssds with the sand force that problem is
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completely solved uh along with offering much better speeds on sequential reads
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and writes as well so here are the scores let's do a couple quick
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comparisons so the ones that are most relevant this is a kind of an antivirus
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security software test so you can see that it comes in in at 10 mb/s so let's
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compare that to the 4 Series SSD where you can see that we are actually
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getting 22,000 marks in the hard drive
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Suite on PC Mark Vantage and then here in the
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Windows Defender test we are seeing a 10x Improvement at 120 megabytes per
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second when we're using like a um a
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system utility type program now gaming it did a little bit better now gaming it
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would do well because sequential reads are something that old ssds were
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reasonably good at where it's just taking one big long file and reading the
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whole thing start to finish so even then even in the one that it did I think best
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in yeah best in the San Force SSD Just
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Smokes it now random stuff where you're accessing little bits of data all over
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the Drive that's where the newer ssds
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really shine you compare that to the numbers that we saw on the old crucial
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SSD and everything is as much as as much
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as all 50 times faster on a newer SSD
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compared to an older one so there you have it we have seen that if you were an
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early adopter basically it's from a capacity standpoint not
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really but from a performance standpoint it's getting to be time to go ahead and
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replace that SSD already thank you for checking out my video blog and uh please
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stay tuned to my ncixcom channel where I will be doing the official video on this
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