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this video is meant to be a preview or I guess completely a spoiler of an upcoming episode of NCIS tech tips where I'm going to take a much closer look at the Corsair f60 this is from their fourth series of SSDs that means it features the San force controller which is the latest and greatest controller on the market I did do an unboxing of this particular drive so you can see the accessories that comes with including a two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half inch adapter but anyway the angle I'm taking on this particular episode is going to be what if you were an early adopter for SSD so I found the oldest SSD Drive I could find in this case it was a some crucial 64 gig drive this is back before there were even like series names like force so this is just called 64 gig SSD Drive here's the part number here this was really the oldest thing I could find and I want to find out because I've compared the San force controller I've compared a modern SSD to a hard drive before but I've never compared it to an old SSD so what if you were one of the people who bought one of these for seven hundred and fifty dollars back when they were current and the the hottest new thing is it worth it to upgrade already because a 4 series drive is only two hundred dollars for almost the same capacity and as we will see and I'm going to totally ruin the surprise here so there's the 4 series drive it's two hundred dollars at the moment on NCIX as we will see from the benchmark results that I obtained with it if you were using an old drive so here let's find the crucial old SSD you can see that it scores only 1147 points on the hard drive test so this Drive just trying to benchmark it was painful it actually took about 30 seconds longer to boot up the OS compared to the 4 series drive so it took about if i recall i wrote this down at work but it took about a minute and 25 seconds to boot up whereas the 4 series SSD was around the 52nd mark ok and just trying to use the system was painful everything took so long especially when I was multitasking because like many old SSDs this Drive suffers from a bit of a stuttering issue so if you're using multiple applications at the same time what will happen is as the drive tries to access data that's and I'm being very figurative here here and here at the same time the controller gets confused it doesn't know what to do and it actually can take longer than a hard drive to access those two bits of data even though a hard drive actually has physical moving parts inside that need to seek and find the data on a physical hard disk platter so that was one of the challenges with early SSDs with the San force that problem is completely solved along with offering much better speeds on sequential reads and writes as well so here are the scores let's do a couple quick comparison so the ones that are most relevant this is a kind of an antivirus security software test so you can see that it comes in at 10 megabytes per second so let's compare that to the 4 series SSD where you can see that we are actually getting 22 thousand marks in the hard drive suite on pcmark vantage and then here in the Windows Defender test we are seeing a 10x improvement at 120 megabytes per second when we're using like a system utility type program now gaming it did a little bit better now gaming it would do well because sequential reads are something that old SSDs were reasonably good at where it's just taking one big long file and reading the whole thing start to finish so even then even in the one that it did I think best in yeah best in the San force SSD just smokes it now random stuff where you're accessing little bits of data all over the drive that's where the newer SSDs really shine you compare that to the numbers that we saw on the old crucial SSD and everything is as much as as much as all 50 times faster on a newer SSD compared to an older one so there you have it we have seen that if you were an early adopter basically it's from a capacity standpoint not really but from a performance standpoint it's getting to be time to go ahead and replace that SSD already thank you for checking out my video blog and please stay tuned to my NCIX com where I will be doing the official video on this subject and don't forget to subscribe to both linus tech tips as well as NCIX calm