Old vs New Storage Drives - SSD & HDD All-out Slugfest!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,152 words · ~5 min read
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about 10 months ago ish we made this video called the solid state drive
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versus hard drive torture test you guys seemed to like it but also voiced that
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there were some too many variables with the old drive having all that junk on it
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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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subscribed to Linus tech tips for more videos in the future where we address
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your concerns almost a year later
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Intel's new 750 series ssds utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never
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seen before on consumer storage drives click now to learn
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more just like last time we'll be comparing the performance differences of
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hard drives and solitate drives as you might have expected but unlike last time
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we'll be using a fresh os on these drives this time around we yet again
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will have the older model one terabyte hard drive and a nice new fresh SSD but
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we also have added the older model SSD and a newer model hard drive to get a
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more well-rounded look at this picture in the test we will be doing clean
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installs on the drives instead of using the dirty install we had on the hard
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drive from last time this isn't to say that we've changed our mind we still
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like doing real world testing i just thought that this time around we would
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use give all the drives a new clean slate a new beginning and a fair chance
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to fight for their category this isn't a proper sanitized scientific approach to
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benchmarking these drives and we still suggest that if you're looking for those
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types of results you should check out sites like storage review but while i
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have removed the variability of junk sitting on the drive to make the results
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more consistent i still think this is a great real world representation of
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performance because we still get to see the difference between fresh drives and
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older drives who've held together through rigorous use the first drive
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we'll be looking at is the western digital one terabyte drive which is an
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old dog for this race i used this drive for years in more than a few different
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home servers and i honestly beat the crap out of it it was never really
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properly cooled and was rarely screwed in properly but it's still alive so it's
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got that going for it next up we have the shiny new six terabyte seagate
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enterprise drive it's fresh out of the box and has either not been used or been
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used slightly by lioness before this test but not much though either way it's
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still super fresh and should be performing to the best of its abilities to give a solid performance benchmark
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for modern hard drives then we get to the SSD starting with my aging samsung
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830 series SSD it has uh
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seen a lot i use this drive for benchmarking for a long time and i like
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to keep those drives clean so naturally it's seen more operating installs than
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any drive i've ever owned and last but not least is the badass 850 pro one
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terabyte SSD this drive normally needs no introduction but it has a huge
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capacity for an SSD of one terabyte like i already mentioned and it's pretty damn
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fast so i don't mind having it as a representation of really fast new SATA
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ssds now that isn't to say that it's as fast as the NVMe drives but either way i
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installed Windows 8.1 as our benchmarking operating system onto the
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850 pro and after fully updating it and installing all the necessary drivers for
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our x99 platform system i installed open
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office because we will be messing around with openoffice just like we did in the
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last video in an attempt to show a real world representation of performance
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after all that was done i just mirrored that drive onto my other three test
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drives first up was restarting and loading up openoffice this is similar to
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the test we did last time where we restarted and loaded up firefox to the
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home page but should take the drives a little bit longer this time as
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openoffice is definitely a heavier program this test should be fairly
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reasonable representation of how long it would take your computer to be usable
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when performing a restart next up was timing how long it takes to uninstall
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openoffice then after openoffice was uninstalled timing how long it takes to
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calculate the size of the c drive both of these tests were an attempt to
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represent how long a fairly standard task would take on each of these drives
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in conclusion not that surprising although it is
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impressive how much faster the 850 pro is compared to the 830. of course this
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doesn't mean hard drives are useless mind you you may have noticed that our
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hard drive is six freaking terabytes and they come even larger than that if you
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happen to need it that's not all either hard drives do tend to be a lot easier
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to recover data from if you have some sort of disaster because of just how
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they fundamentally work but then as you saw the ssds are
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insanely fast compared to hard drives even the 830 the older one if you want
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to learn more about the differences check out Linus's fastest possible episode on it here all right guys was
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this the test you were looking for when you commented on the last video i know
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i'll probably have to redo this at some point to some degree with NVMe drives
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but i think that's going to kind of be down the line once they mature a little
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bit and once we have more of them to try out anyways let me know again comments
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