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everyone this is steve from gamers nexus dotnet and we are here at the LSI headquarters and i am with kent smith today we're talking about SSDs and controllers and Kent can you tell me a little bit more about what our users specifically gamers should be looking for in SSDs especially when they're looking at benchmarks you know there are all these numbers published out there what do they really care about what's relevant to them ok that's a great question there's a lot of reviews that go into all sorts of details about the SSD that you know in a lot of cases is almost irrelevant for example a lot of reviews will just look at pure synthetic tests that don't tell you anything about where the what's really happening in the SSD when you're using it you know during your gaming experience or whatever it is you're doing and so it's it's important that you look at more of the real world benchmarking that puts the SSD in a real-life situation it's making sure it's got garbage collection operating which is ninety-nine percent of the SSDs life and so that real world benchmark is going to be the the real evaluation and the more the benchmark looks at a gaming specific environment the better it's going to be and it's you know it's really that controller that you're looking at you know a lot of people say hey you know am I am i concerned about the form factor am i concerned about the color of the case you know if you are that's great but most people aren't you know I your game won't work any different for those elements and so what's really important is making sure you understand what's the controller inside of that SSD because the controllers in charge of all the error correction it's in charge of the flash communication it's a it'll have a huge impact on your right amplification it's managing the over-provisioning you know everything about your SSD is all managed by that controller and so if you if you are really concerned about what that SSE is going to do you want to understand what controller it's got okay well once again here at LSI headquarters and this is steve from gamers next dotnet you can check out some links below for more information on controllers on all kinds of stuff write amplification factor which we speak speak about in another video that you'll see after this and thanks again we'll see you guys next time peace