Gadgetory

I had some requests after my SSD versus hard drive tech tips why don't you try a faster hard drive so I thought you know what I'll do you one better because it was a bit of an unfair comparison that time I had the vertex le which is OCC's fastest SSD and I had it against it's a good hard drive don't get me wrong the WD one terabyte black is an exceptional hard drive but it is a 7200 rpm Drive and is therefore a little bit limited so okay here first things first I'm gonna press the buttons on my to test bed pcs here at the same time get those booting up so I have changed to a 10,000 rpm Drive I'm now using a Western Digital Raptor 160 gig I would have used a velociraptor but the reality of it is I just don't have one on hand and then I'll go one better instead of testing a super fast SSD against the 10k rpm drive I've gone and found a slower SSD so I got a vertex 60 gig drive to test against the Raptor 160 gigabyte so I'm gonna get the cameraman to have a look over there MSN's up okay so the SSD is now loaded and it is absolutely killing the Raptor so we might have to wait another moment for the Raptor to finally there we go MSN Messenger is done so there are a lot more tests that we can run here and I'm gonna do sort of a quick snapshot at the same kinds of stuff that I did last time around so why don't we just launch left 4 dead 2 my favourite PC games see which one takes longer already the SSD is way out in the lead ok I'm gonna cheat a little bit in favor of the hard drive here and I'm gonna press escape on both computers at the same time ok so you can see that loads just as fast and then when it actually starts to load again you can see that the SSD pulls away again alright so let's go over over over over to single player and let's launch a single player campaign start game there we go and we are going to observe once again I'm going to hypothesize that the SSD will load the level faster let's find out if I'm right remember this is a slower SSD than we were using last time against a faster harddrive there you go we are yeah I wasn't counting but we're some some seconds ahead of the hard drive on this particular test and one of the other things that I've I mean personally I really like about running an SSD is the fact that whenever you alt-tab out of a program even if it's a 3d program there's like a chair in the counter minutes way here I'm just gonna move that you can actually see I'm holding alt pressing tab right now oh wow that actually went really fast for the hard drive that's um that's actually pretty unusual but either way with the SSD I have observed for myself that usually you can minimize and maximize things like games a lot faster that's pretty impressive anyway okay so let's see what else we got here actually this is a good one okay launching we're gonna open just uh it's an HD video file it's actually one of my video blog videos that some that's not rien coded so it's quite a large file we're gonna open it in Windows Media Center to see which one opens it faster oh yeah playing on the SSD and we're still waiting just to play a video file look at that there you go hard drive finally does it so I'll test a flock okay so we're going to close both of these alts f4 and the SST closes faster even if I press it in exactly the same time so let's see how much how much further do I have to go with this because the whole point of this is that it was it had nothing to do with which SSD I was testing and which hard drive I was testing the point is SSDs because of their miniscule response times will always outperform a hard drive especially in just your random mundane day-to-day tasks they're just faster so let's actually okay let's do a couple more things here for you let's launch Internet Explorer and we're not waiting for it look how long you wait for what Internet Explorer to just load a webpage okay I mean Internet it shouldn't even be affected by your PC at this point in time but hard drives are just too too slow and it's not about oh well I can afford to wait two seconds yeah it's two seconds but it's two seconds every time you know show me another upgrade you can do with your computer that will actually impact performance by by cutting time that it takes to do things in half every time you do them anyway thanks for checking out my video blog and I hope that this has enlightened all of the naysayers