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so today we'll be testing intel octane more specifically obtain h10 now Dimitri did a video and explained video a few weeks ago of explaining the technology behind Intel's latest m10 and HTN memory and to give you a little bit of context it's basically you know the combination of the responsiveness of obtain as well as that paired with a qlc NAND flash all put into this single m2 module which is actually pretty sweet now if you interested in learning more about it I'll actually recommend checking Demetrius video or explained video right over here but basically Intel centers you know a notebook to test out the performance that you can actually get out of something like this compared to a traditional nvme base drive so why don't we get into that but first a quick message from our sponsor the new Razer Blade 15 is a machine for people who know exactly what they want when you need a reliable keyboard and one custom lighting when you need an accurate display and one insanely fast 144 Hertz 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factor now I want to show you guys a more realistic use case scenario with octane age 10 and in order to do that I transferred some on a personal project files and some applications to both of these drives and after running you know all these tests for like multi times I noticed I mean the difference is actually really really interesting so kicking it off with a boot test as you can see the age ten actually takes about ten seconds to get into Windows whereas the seven sixty P takes around eighteen seconds to get to the desktop moving on to crystal dis marker and this is where the octane h10 takes a step back as you can see the read speeds are obviously a lot better on the 760 P compared to the H ten and that's because for my conversations with Intel they did mention that the that the Nance the NAND flash on the H ten modules actually based off the 660 P so that is probably one of the reasons why we're getting you know relatively lower rate performance compared to these 760 P which is actually fairly new to the market and if you did catch Dimitri's explain video he did mention that the octane memory module and the NAND flash are actually split in two by two so two lanes are dedicated towards octane and then two lanes are towards the NAND flash itself and I think that is something to keep note of because I ended up disabling obtain on the H 10 because you can do that through the rst driver and I ran the crystal the smart benchmark and as you can see the read and write performance are almost split by half which almost makes sense because you aren't only getting two lanes on the SSD flash or the SSD are compared to obtain so they both sort of talk to each other when it comes to caching certain applications and that's what kind of gives you a more responsive system so as I'm going through the rest of the benchmarks you'll see why octane and something like this will be beneficial for some users out there I also write a few game launches on both these SSDs starting with dota 2 the obtained aged ten took roughly seven and a half seconds to get to the start compared to roughly ten seconds on the 760 P the same story goes with doom the OP th10 took roughly 25 seconds to get to the mission compared to twenty nine seconds or so on the 760 P when we had to photoshop I took this thumbnail project that I worked on recently and I launched that with the application and the H ten took roughly four seconds to get to that compared to roughly seven seconds on D seven sixty P now from what I can tell there isn't a significant difference between the two drives I mean just launching a project file from the start sure the h10 is a little bit faster but it's not that much faster to a point that it just it just gives you that wow factor so I decided to run a few other tests to sort of you know flex the muscles on the h10 and this is what I did so I took this 18 gigabyte video file and I duplicated it within a folder and it decided to launch a GIMP project file which is around 100 megabytes and this definitely shows the true potential of where h10 can come in beneficial now as you can see the h10 took roughly 10 seconds to open the project compared to a whopping 40 seconds on these seven 60p and remember this is with a file duplicated video duplicated within the same folder while opening your project when it's loading up the whole thing and you know I made sure to run another test to see if I'm actually if I'm getting consistent results and I sure was because I took the exact same background scenario and I opened up Photoshop and the h10 took around 9 seconds to open the project compared to a little over 30 seconds on these seven 60p now this shirt does need an explanation what essentially is happening is when I was performing the task on the 760 P that drive is actually fighting for resources it's fighting for bandwidth to complete its tasks so it's not only duplicating a file but at the same time it's trying to open up a project at the same time so it's basically maxing out the drives capacity compared to something like the H 10 you have two separate modules so you have the opt-in memory that's actually caching the application to open the project as fast as it can and then you also have the QL scene and flash to you know do its write performance which is basically duplicating the video files so it's actually doing its own thing you know it's sharing the bandwidth in a very smart way so that it actually opens a project really faster compared to the 760 P because while the write performance on H 10 was a lot slower compared to the 760 P it actually manages to open the projects in both scenarios so having looked at the numbers back-to-back I think the one conclusion that I can come up with is that obtain H 10 is really geared towards the prosumer market because if you're someone who really it's access to a lot of assets like data assets in a short amount of time h10 would be a lot beneficial because you know if you're rendering something in the background or if you're you know performing multiple background activities while opening up certain projects opted-in will certainly be a lot beneficial because you have intel octane paired with kill scene and that sort of talk to each other so I want to say that it's more of a smarter SSD compared to what you can buy in the market right now because if you look at the 760 P it is a fastest as d don't get me wrong the sequential read and write performance definitely tops of charts compared to the age 10 but you know when it comes to performing a lot of tasks at the same time it struggles to share the bandwidth and I think that's where the 760 p has its limitation and something like the H 10 kind of takes over in that case now as a content creator I do see myself taking advantage of Intel's opt in age 10 because it sure does accelerate project load ups or application load ups in the first place but for gamers I really don't think you would actually benefit a lot from something like this because you know as you saw with dota 2 and of course doom just loading a permission you're not gonna notice a huge difference to something like a traditional nvme base drive oh and another thing you really can't buy this separately online because Intel's really targeting this to know manufacturers and they really want the them to sort of implement h10 into their products because you know it's more of a space-saving storage unit that helps accelerate programs rather than you know giving you the best performance it's really again like I said it's really geared towards a certain type of demographic but the other thing that really concerns me the most is pricing because I have no information regarding that at least from the briefing that I had with Intel regarding octane h10 so you know definitely expect it to be a little bit more expensive compared to a traditional traditional nvme SSD but of course it does come with its drawbacks and of course its pros as well so let me know what you guys think about opt NH 10 and of course having looked at the performance numbers or having looked at the numbers in general are you impressed would you actually consider a notebook with obtaining H 10 and would you like to see something like this hit the desktop platform I'd love to know your thoughts in the comments hello amigo with hybrid connects thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here I'm signing off and I'll see you guys in the next one