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about ten months ago ish we made this video called the solid-state drive versus hard drive torture test you guys seem to like it but also voiced that there were some too many variables with the old drive having all that junk on it yeah we copied it's a new drive but whatever today we're here to address those concerns also don't forget to stay subscribed - tech tips for more videos in the future where we address your concerns almost a year later Intel's new 750 series SSDs utilized the nvme standard providing speeds never seen before on consumer storage drives click now to learn more just like last time we'll be comparing the performance differences of hard drives and solid tape drives as you might have expected but unlike last time we will be using a fresh OS on these drives this time around we yet again will have the older model 1 terabyte hard drive and a nice new fresh SSD but we also have added the older model SSD and a newer model hard drive to get a more well-rounded look at this picture in the test we will be doing clean installs on the drives instead of using the dirty install we had on the hard drive from last time this isn't to say that we've changed our mind we still like doing real-world testing I just thought that this time around we would use give all the drives a new clean slate a new beginning and a fair chance to fight for their category this isn't a proper sanitized scientific approach to benchmark in these drives and we still suggest that if you're looking for those types of results you should check out sites like storage review but while I have removed the variability of junk sitting on the drive to make the results more consistent I still think this is a great real-world representation of performance because we still get to see the difference between fresh drives and older drives who've held together through rigorous use the first drive we'll be looking at is the Western Digital one terabyte drive which is an old dog for this race I used this drive for years and more than a few different home servers and I honestly beat the crap out of it it was never really properly cooled and was rarely screwed in properly but it's still alive so it's got that going for it next up we have the shiny new 6 terabyte Seagate Enterprise Drive it's fresh out of the box and has either not been used or been used slightly by Linus before this test but not much though either way it's still super fresh and should be performing to the best of its abilities to give a solid performance benchmark for modern hard drives then we get to the SSD starting with my aging samsung 830 series SSD it has seen a lot I use this drive for benchmarking for a long time and I like to keep those drives clean so natural seen more operating installs than any drive I've ever owned and last but not least is the badass 850 Pro one terabyte SSD this drive normally needs no introduction but it has a huge capacity for an SSD of one terabyte like I already mentioned and it's pretty damn fast so I don't mind having it as a representation of really fast new SATA SSDs now that isn't to say that it's as fast as the nvme drives but either way installed Windows 8.1 is our benchmarking operating system onto the 850 Pro and after fully updating it and installing all the necessary drivers for our x99 platform system I installed open office because we will be messing around with OpenOffice just like we did in the last video in an attempt to show a real world representation of performance after all that was done I just mirrored that drive on to my other three test drives first up was restarting and loading up OpenOffice this is similar to the tests we did last time where we restarted and loaded up Firefox to the home page but should take the drives a little bit longer this time as OpenOffice is definitely a heavier program this test should be fairly reasonable representation of how long it would take your computer to be usable when performing a restart next up was timing how long it takes to uninstall OpenOffice then after Open Office was uninstalled timing how long it takes to calculate the size of the C Drive both of these tests were an attempt to represent how long a fairly standard task would take on each of these drives in conclusion not that surprising although it is impressive how much faster the 850 Pro is compared to the 830 of course this doesn't mean hard drives are useless mind you you may have noticed that our hard drive is 6 freaking terabytes and they come even larger than that if you happen to need it that's not all either hard drives do tend to be a lot easier to recover data from if you have some sort of disaster because of just how they fundamentally work but then as you saw the SSDs are insanely fast compared to hard drives even May 30 the older one if you want to learn more about the differences check out - as fast as possible episode on it here alright guys was this the test you were looking for when you commented on the last video I know I'll probably have to redo this at some point to some degree with nvme drives but I think that's going to kind of be down once they mature a little bit and once we have more of them to try out anyways let me know again comments down below over on the forum while you're here watching the video like favorite dislike subscribe share follow comment click on the links in the description you can see where to buy a cool Linus tech tips t-shirt you can see any affiliate things we have going on down there over on the forum you can see the help Linus Media Group button where you can see links to our sponsors how to change your Amazon affiliate code how to install the the add-on for the forum where it can change your Amazon affiliate code for you and do some other cool for me stuff and become a contributor of the forum if you haven't already because contributors are super cool anyways thanks for watching I'll see you guys next time