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what's up guys Jays two cents here and I have teamed up with Intel and Seagate to bring a video about how to get SSD level performance but the storage capacities of a conventional hard drive sounds too good to be true right well they sent me their stuff they sponsored today's video but I am putting those claims to the test because I'm gonna get to the truth at roof of this can you actually get hard drive capacity with SSD speeds and not break the bank right that's the best part I don't know let's find out today we're gonna be talking about one specific task that it can do and that is being a system accelerator where it's not just a storage drive I mean technically technically it is but who would who would buy a 16 gigabyte storage drive you could even put an OS on that but what if we were to use this as a massive cache device for a conventional hard drive or instead of constantly seeking the hard drive for your most commonly used programs and files games and whatnot it actually accesses it right off of the Intel opting mod module which is plugged into m dot 2 which is much faster latency wise and even SATA SSDs but it does it for a fraction of the cost I mean the 16 gig comes in right around 50 ish bucks at the time of making this video and you can get a four terabyte Seagate Barracuda for right around 120 bucks I think I might have your attention by now I certainly got mine so I decided to benchmark three different scenarios with this we benchmarked just the hard drive I think this is where a lot of people I think would start off new system builders this is definitely worth taking a look at as you definitely should but I think I'm taking this from the perspective of I've got a low I've got a low budget I have a lot of money to spend I've got an existing hard drive that already has my OS on it I don't want to spend a lot more money and start all over so we benchmarked just the hard drive with a clone of the SSD operating system drive that is inside my test bench so it's got about a year's worth of registry and stuff also cloned onto here it's not a fresh install which I thought was very important in testing I want to see how well plug and play is on an existing system not a fresh install so all of the inherent slow downs over time are definitely present on this drive and then we took it and we installed the octane memory using the installation guides which you guys can find links to down at the description box of this video where we installed the obtain got it going and then compared the results so we took our hard drive when we did all of our tests twice and the reason why we did that is believe it or not regular hard drives also have built-in cache right you've seen it before 7200 rpm 64 megabyte cache and so if you do the same task over and over and over and over on a hard drive it does get faster so we we did multiple tests we did two tests basically of all of these to see how well it improved and then we did the exact same thing with the optin memory installed we did a baseline test on everything went back through and did another test to see how it improved because obtained just like a cache drive it's going to learn your behavior it's gonna learn what hard drives are it's going to learn what files are accessing what programs you're launching and it's going to start to store those on the cache drive rather than going all the way to the hard drive to get that information so that's where a lot of the acceleration comes from and then what we did just to see how well it compares to a regular SSD which is quite a bit more expensive and quite a bit smaller than a standard hard drive for instance this guy right now at the time making this video is about 120 bucks 4 terabytes and for 120 bucks you can only get about 256 ish 240 gigs worth of SSD which how big is wildlands 48 gigabytes right it's like almost a quarter of your drive after the partition tables and stuff where you're gonna get one game and OS and some files on there and not have much room left yeah so then we tested it like I said on the SSD and before I show the benchmarks there's a couple of requirements you guys have to know though if you're setting this up for yourself one it requires Windows 10 64 bit that's a requirement can't get around that it also requires Intel octane memory motherboards which you're gonna find basically in the Intel seventh gen series and KB Lake CPUs so i5 and i7 in our testing here we use two 7900 X with an X to 99 yeah definitely not pulling any punches we want the CPU trying to grab information as fast as possible so that the storage is truly our bottleneck at that point and then you're gonna also need to go and download some software to make it all work so 64-bit windows 10 intel seventh gen cpu cable eight CPUs and an Intel obtain ready motherboard and of course the module itself as well as a hard drive to accelerate in our case the four terabyte Barracuda so with all of that talking out of the way how well did it actually perform so if you're like me when you first heard about Intel obtained you might have started to think that that was just too good to be true I mean how the heck could this little module speed this guy up to give you SSD performance with the massive storage capacity of hard drives well guys you just saw in those benchmarks that's exactly what happened now how did it happen how did it do that well it's pretty simple I think the best way to explain how this is really working is to just do a little bit of a demonstration so Nick is going to be my hard drive and right now I'm gonna be the CPU and this right here is all the stuff we have stored on our hard drive so right now Nick I need that one file in the one folder I need that one file in a moment we got things that are waiting to happen here man sitting here idle memory does it there we go thank you okay and then the CPU does what it needs to do with it but let's say we install the Intel obtain memory so now I'm obtained you're the hard drive and I'm talking to the CPU that's over here he's just offering now the same thing is gonna happen but what you're gonna notice is something a little bit different hey hard drive I'm obtained now so I'm in between you and the CPU and I need that one file Oh got one file I need the file we've work things are happening here come on found it okay there we go so I got the file I'm handing it off to the CPU but I'm gonna hang on to this because we just used it chances are we might need it again oh you know what the CPU needs that file again but I got this here we go oh oh wait the CPU needs a needs World of Warcraft maybe that one we're gonna play some Wow or do some reading him yeah you got it that's a big file it's a big foot there we go that's world of warcraft and I hand it off to the CPU but i'ma hang on to this well he wants to play wow again here we go oh he's playing this guy played with plays I'm gonna hang on to this he plays a lot a lot okay we don't need that one anymore though you can have that okay thank you so it's it works a lot like a cache but the thing is I'm gonna hold on to in my buffer or cache all of the most frequently frequently used files and programs so that instead of going back to you I'm just gonna keep it and hand it off and then when something new is I'll come to you and then I'll hang on to it and as time goes on I'll learn behaviors and then some of your behaviors are disturbing let me just put that out there but I'll learn your behaviors and I'll probably seek therapy at the end of all of it and then what will happen is as things were used less frequently I'll kind of push that back and then I will hang on again until most frequently use files that in a little skit and a terrible skit is basically what's happening retard he tried so hard so that's why you're getting even better speeds and his traditional SSD at least in our testing configuration we did have a quirk though when we were installing this that took me a while to get past but I was able to actually work through it where I was actually installing the wrong installer because by following their links down below and take mine note of this when I'm about to tell you they say use the setup octane memory Exe file the problem is there's several different installation suites I don't know what the differences are between them but I was using the wrong one and they all have the exact same file name so I didn't catch it until later but I did finally get it working and it was pretty simple at that point reboots it makes sure that rst is turned on in your BIOS and then it will ask do you want to accelerate your system with octane you'd be like heck yes I do and then it reboots again and you're good to go and you get the results that we just saw but with all that out of the way for about a hundred and seventy dollars here you're able to get massive amounts of storage at the speeds of an SSD not bad at all now there is also something else you need to keep in mind though is the op tain is only going to be able to accelerate whichever drive has your OS on it so if you have multiple hard drives so you have games on one drive and then you have the OS on OS on another one it's only going to accelerate the drive with the OS on it so keep that in mind so that's it tell me what you guys think about the intel octane memory I think for people on a budget that want mass storage and good speed it's definitely worth taking a look at the amount of speed increase in the amount of time decrease of opening just random programs and restarts and and shutting down windows was definitely tangible like it was extremely tangible there was no margin about it so again a huge thank you to both Intel in Seagate for sponsoring today's video and making it possible links are in the description guys places where you can buy and how to learn more about intel octane check it out and as always guys I'll see you in the next one you