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with its factory tuning and data center DNA and Intel 730 series SSD is an amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so how fast is a hard drive compared to an SSD I mean you can go read a spec sheet or look at the charts and graphs on fantastic sites like storage review but if you look carefully there's something you'll notice about the way that SSDs and hard drives always get compared to each other it always starts with the reviewer loading up a fresh OS putting on all the latest drivers and installing only the applications that are needed for benchmarking so what we're seeing is the best-case scenario for any device but that's not the way that people actually use their computers they get malware and remove it they install programs and I install them and but that leaves remnants they upgrade their hardware and the older driver junk is left over and they have random crap running in the background that they don't even remember the purpose of so while a sanitized scientific approach is the best way to objectively measure the performance of a hardware what it isn't is a way to represent to people what the real difference in performance between a hard drive and an SSD might look like to three or however many years down the road when the hard drive is gonna be really struggling to keep up with all that clutter something that SSDs handle much much better so Luke and I sat down and divinest a test to show the other end of the spectrum the worst case scenario for both devices for science in the hard drive corner we've got a Seagate Barracuda one terabyte that has had this Windows 7 operating system more on that later running on it for almost 5 years representing SSDs we've got the Corsair Neutron 512 we went with this drive because we feel like it represents a good balance between price performance and capacity something that we need because our hard drive was about half-full to begin the test and we wanted to be able to clone everything over there which leads us into the methodology that Windows 7 installed is one broken piece of poo it's running an IDE mode it has undergone several platform changes between originally being installed on m-46 and the x79 bench that we're using today it's dual booted with fortified linux distros with a variety of boot loaders used throughout it and a triple boot setup with Linux and OS 10 attempted at one point and it's run every generation of Nvidia graphics cards from the 8800 series to the 7000 series and the objective of all of this is to determine once and for all is there more to the SSD performance story than boot times on a fresh OS can an SSD actually justify its much higher cost to storage ratio even for affordable ones like this one in a worst-case scenario torture tests have all of those people who upgraded just been deluding themselves about how much better things were when they cloned their old OS to a new SSD to find out what kind of difference a hard drive user might observe in the real world this is what we did take it away loop to elaborate on what Linus was talking about this operating system has been through kind of a lot it wasn't just a test drive this was actually my daily driver for a long time and because of that I've done registry edits like crazy I played with boot animations I've duel booted it beside everything under the Sun it's gone through every series of nvidia card and a lot of AMD ones since 8000 series Nvidia it started mine in four six and I've tried a whole bunch of different platforms on AMD and Intel size since then um yeah it was sat at the top of my mineral oil rig I've had it since high school it's been through basically everything as far as I can remember and we're gonna see how it fares so the first thing I did was I booted up on the X 79 platform I ran Windows Update for a while which took freakin forever I downloaded installed all the latest drivers and necessary benchmarking software that I needed I then cloned the drive over to the SSD with both drives running the same Frankenstein absolutely crap worst is possible scenario operating system the only thing left was to see the performance difference between the hardware in this kind of torture test scenario our first benchmark is going to be based around restarting so I clicked the restart button and instantly start timeing at that point let me time it until it gets all the way through reboot and is able to open PC mark 8 modern West's are optimized for hard drives hybrid drives SSDs whatever in terms of booting and that's why your new PC boots up so quickly that didn't really help here a ton as you'll see our next test was to uninstall a program' I chose OpenOffice for this and the objective was to see how long it takes to uninstall this program while using the computer in the background so while it was running this I was opening control panel looking at different things and just random web browsing a - tech tips com about every five ish seconds I would do a new action that was about it and it took a really long time for the hard drive time to stall that program last off I tried to run PC mark 8 and it ran fine on the SSD but it crashed on the hard drive I really don't think that's PC mark eights problem the hard drive probably just screwed up to be completely honest so we didn't bother including those results because they're inconclusive Thank You future mark for providing the code anyways I'm sure if my hard drive wasn't as screwed up it would probably work just fine so instead of running that test what I did was I made it calculate all the folders within my C Drive to see how long that took and that was again kind of a fairly hilarious result alright guys I hope you liked this kind of like odd weird contrast II situation we just kind of noticed that I had this hard drive since forever and just wanted to kind of see what we could do with it so I hope you guys liked that if you did like it like the video and subscribe if you didn't like it dislike the video and subscribe anyways we'll make something you like eventually comment on them down below if you think it was an interesting test if you want to comment in a more highbrow section of the internet you can comment over at Linus tech tips calm and let us what you know what you think over there just so you guys know we recently launched the beta of our kind of front page II idea that we're hoping to do soon so if you want to see that jump over on the forum and click the front page beta don't worry we're gonna make it so you can set your homepage to be whatever you want so if you want to have it so you home pages of the forum that would be okay but that functionality isn't quite ready yet thanks for watching if you guys want a shirt that isn't from Firefox for whatever reason you can check our shirts links down in the description below thank you for watching and I'll see you guys next time