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now the official video for today at the Intel campus is actually going to be on the subject of Intel's SSD reliability their manufacturing and testing processes and you guys are going to want to check that out on my NCIX comm channel so that's youtube.com slash NCIX comm for those of you who still haven't subscribed to both channels it's totally worth it the other ones really good too this is just for fun so Intel has as you can see basketball courts here on the campus there's the building you can't really see it but there's an Intel logo at the top left not only do they have basketball courts but they also have beach volleyball Gatineau courts pits whatever you want to call them however of the two sports basketball is the one that I'm least terrible at so for our cool factor video today we are going to be stress testing whether this intel SSD can handle my poor basketball playing skills so okay we're gonna force it to watch well I go at this here and here we go and up yes okay so what we're gonna do now guys is we're gonna take this intel SSD because as you know Intel SSDs and Farewell SSDs in general are all about reliability so while Intel has the lowest failure rates in the industry the in general they are still more reliable than hard drives especially in applications where they're going to be subjected to shock such as in a laptop so let's take this throw it inside a laptop of the actual Intel employee the genuine one who is filming this episode and find out if it still boots up so here we are we it's a very simple operation to change the hard drive in this notebook so we took our image drive through it in the notebook it booted up quick fast as we've come to expect from this SSDs and the touchpad is not working because this particular Intel employee prefers to use the old fashioned keyboard nipple thing going on you know move it around like that um so here just to show that it is actually working we're just gonna open something how about oh how about getting started there we go so yes our SSD still works so the general message here and this is going to be most of what I already say in the NCIX tech tips video if you guys have already seen that the general message is going to be Intel puts a phenomenal amount of effort and R&D into making sure that their SSDs are the most reliable in the industry if that means a product gets released on a different time schedule compared to their competitors then so be it so this was ah shoot what series was this can you signal me like how many went after the five was it a one or two 520 it's a 520 thank you so in this case the 520 series SSD was actually significantly later to market compared to their competitors with SandForce controllers but because Intel insists on setting the bar for where they want the performance and the reliability and then forcing the product to meet it before they bring it to market they ended up rewriting dramatic amounts of the firmware as well as making sure that they use only the highest quality of the NAND that they manufacture themselves so thank you for checking out this little practical demonstration I know it didn't really prove much but a hard drive definitely would have died where the SSD didn't so at least prove that much thank you for checking out this video on - tech tips and don't forget to subscribe