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what's up guys you're watching JS to sins and I hear it almost every single day with people asking what they should buy for their brand-new computers or when they're upgrading and they want to know if solid states are worth the price are they really that much better than hard drives do they perform are they fast and are they worth the price and today that's exactly what we're gonna find out okay guys this is gonna be a really quick and easy video because when it comes to solid state versus the mechanical drive this is definitely a no-brainer with the cost of solid-state drives really dropping over the last year so you should really consider dropping a solid-state drive as your main operating system drive in your computer at the very least you could get a 64 gigabyte SSD for less than 100 bucks but your operating system on it which will dramatically improve the performance of your computer but you can do it like I did you can get a 128 gigabytes solid-state drive and put your operating system on it a couple of your favorite programs that you use on a regular basis or maybe a game that you want to load faster you just have to know right off the bat that having a solid-state drive is not going to increase your gaming performance inside of a game what is gonna happen is things that have to load in the game or loading the game are going to load faster do not expect any sort of frames per second increase when you put a solid-state drive in your computer when it comes to gaming so what I did for this test here that took three different types of drives I took a 5400 rpm two-and-a-half inch laptop drive which is a SATA 3 I took a Western Digital caviar black one terabyte 7200 rpm SATA 6 hard drive and my crucial m4 128 gigabyte SSD and I put these three head-to-head in a hard disk benchmark program called what was it calling it crystal disk called crystal disk where it does a read/write test on the drives and it does several different things and it tells you the performance of your hard drive so first up here we have my 5400 rpm two-and-a-half inch laptop drive and is a three gigabit per second drive I don't even remember the brand I think it's a Toshiba but look at the read/write speeds here it's reading at only 62 megabytes per second and writing at 59 megabytes per second this is pretty old people what's happening is as the RPM is spinning or the hard drive is spinning it's only spinning at 5,400 revolutions per minute which means there's less data going past a needle so it can't read nearly as fast and coming up second here we have my 7200 rpm caviar black one terabyte six gigabit per second Western Digital whoo hard drive that's showing you double the performance of the two and a half inch three gigabit 5400 rpm notebook drive but you're definitely seeing an improvement here with double the bandwidth at 6 gigabits per second versus 3 gigabits and we're writing at 117 megabytes per second and we're reading at 120 megabytes per second that's a great increase this is a very good Drive the caviar black is highly recommended but you know if you're on earth if you're on a mechanical Drive you're gonna notice some programs open up kind of slow and there's nothing really you're gonna hear that drive ticking away and so we get into the solid state the changes are definitely noticeable right off the bat the crucial m4 is a couple of years old and it's not a brand new solid state so I want to go ahead and preface this benchmark by telling you that there are much faster SSDs out on the market but then again they're gonna cost you a lot more you can get 128 crucial em for that I have for a little bit over a hundred bucks now sometimes a little bit less if you shop around but look at these speeds compare these to the other two you're getting 201 megabytes per second right speed and 512 megabytes per second read speed that is incredibly fast and what does that mean anything that's loaded on your SSD whether it be your operating system a game a program the difference is night and day windows on the system boots in about 15 seconds it's extremely fast and when it comes to the dropping prices of SSDs there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't seriously consider putting a solid-state drive in a brand new build or an upgrade it's definitely worth and just showing you a bit of a speed test here I put a stopwatch up on the screen I did a screen capture wiggling around so you can see there's no shenanigans no speeding up of the video and loading up Adobe After Effects here with all of its plugins and all of its add-ons and only a few seconds on that solid-state drive don't forget a Dobby Photoshop one of the things that takes a flawless to load sometimes as Photoshop again opened and only a few seconds no shenanigans there it is thanks for watching today's video guys it's been Jase 2 cents trying to educate you a little bit more in pcs and empower you to make the right decisions when it comes to building or buying your next PC 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