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so in 2018 you may have heard of adding a faster piece of storage and combining it with an existing slower type of storage whether it be a one terabyte hard drive or a two or three or four terabyte 7200 rpm drive and making your whole system faster in general and in today's video we're focusing on just this with Intel's obtain 16 and 32 gigabyte modules which come in an Australia priced really well at $28 for a 16 gigabyte module and $49 for the 32 GB our modules in the u.s. they are a little bit more expensive with $34 at least on Amazon for the 16gb of module and $57 for the 32 gigabyte module how was that aside let's test Intel's claims and see whether this does indeed make your system more responsive and whether it does indeed learn the behavior of previous applications loaded and speeds them up for the next boot even after you've completely turned off your system gone to bed and then woke up the next day to boot that game up for the 1000th time welcome back to tech yesterday today's video is sponsored by Intel but that of course does not change the results in any way shape or form moving on with the first benchmark we got here Windows 10 boot time one minute and nine seconds on the hard drive first boot then scales down to 55 and then 29 seconds moving over to the sshd and also the SSD and the octane series the octane series actually scored the best boot times after it learned what was going on which I was surprised it even beat out that of the 760 P 256 gigabyte M got to solution and of course beating that of the sshd which is going to be a big focus of today's video comparing this against SSH DS which do offer a similar type of tech moving on to the project cards to boot times we scored a victory here for obtain over the sshd and also the hard drive the SSD did score the victory though in this particular benchmark coming in with for instance the worst time 30 seconds on the hard drive and then 29 seconds on the sshd and that did scale down and even after we rebooted the machine the octane did beat both these solutions which is the biggest focus of these tests is when we reboot the machine after its learned what's going on is it still going to give you a benefit and move over to Premiere Pro now a benchmark for 4k video editing we saw 48 seconds and then down to 11 and 10 seconds that after we rebooted on the hard drive we then went back up way back up close to those initial figures though moving over to the opt eight series drive we did score a big victory here and a little victory over the sshd going down to as low as eight seconds and then rebooting the machine to come back into ten seconds boot times moving over to a Google load which is just a browser with five different tabs that I've decided to put in we scored four seconds and then two seconds then two seconds rebooting the machine saw the HDD fall behind a little bit rebooting the octane and also the ssh DS did give us a benefit here though the SSD did come out on top in this benchmark and then move over to another game far cry 5 we did score a minute and 22 seconds on all four devices and that followed through with the previous load times then being similar scores except when we rebooted the machine we did see a little bit of a difference following that of the trend that we've seen previously though this game for what it's worth it does seem to load up the mp4 files and then load up the game as you're watching those dedicated mp4 files it is a little bit annoying it does take a long time to load the game regardless of how many times you're booting it and then moving over to Final Fantasy 15 we did score a big victory here on the octane series drives especially after we rebooted the machine went down from 95 seconds from the hard drive for example to 32 to 32 and then spiking all the way back up into the 80s moving over to the octane series drive did go down to as low as 31 seconds and then when we built up the machine it was 37 seconds the SSD did score the victory here on also the first boot and the last boot and then that did of course beat the sshd and that came in third place movie over pop G again similar scenario to Final Fantasy 15 hard drive here 55 seconds first go 26th and 26 and then rebooting and up into the 40's the octane series drive did come out well ahead of the hard disk drive and also well ahead of the sshd the SSD did score the victory here however of course on the first boot and the subsequent reboot and then the last benchmark we're pulling up is a simulator benchmark super position where we've got 31 seconds 19 and then 18 and then on the optin series drive we've got 31 19 and 17 so there was like a very slight benefit on the third go but when we rebooted the machine those results did carry through with the boot time of 21 versus 30 on the hard disk drive and the SSD again falling in between those two drives in the SSD of course coming out on top especially after the reboot so now the results room we can see that the system itself it does have the system acceleration that does learn what's going on does make game boot times faster and also does make system applications faster even after you've rebooted the machine so it does indeed do what it says it will do and the results are showing that in terms of making a mega storage as well you can do that with ease and simplicity you can add it onto a four terabyte solution if you wish to attend terabyte solution and in my opinion the value is coming in a lot better than that shd and also you get more of that caching portion available so it is a good option if you're looking for a bridge between an SSD and a hard disk drive and you don't want to go out and reinstall windows because today I tested it with a one terabyte 7200 rpm drive for example and that was a brand new hard drive if we use an older hard drive or even a 5400 rpm 2.5 inch mechanical the results would be even greater some of those mobile laptops are very slow and the good news is you can add it to a mobile solution but it has to be of course 7th or 8th gen or you can even add it to the Nook which I recently reviewed here on the channel also setting up octane is extremely easy to do just simply install the module and then download the software and you're good to go as well as that there's also bundle obtained with CPUs and in this case the gigabyte motherboard I have here has the opie option we took a look at this at Computex and they're currently giving you the m2 heat shield and also the 32 you give it module for around a 40 USD premium at least on the gaming 7 motherboard so that's an option if you wish to it doesn't affect performance in any way shape or form as opposed to a motherboard without it and then you purchase it and then install it but it is good to know if you want this solution and you definitely want to use it with existing storage there is an option available from gigabyte from the get-go so you don't have to waste any time installing anything and you do get that custom looking obtained heat shield if that's what you want and you conclude things up out of the three technologies I've tested here that being obtained ssh DS and also storing my I feel like obtained did do the best in terms of raw performance of course store mi is a utility that comes for free with motherboards so there is a difference there of course of being price but in terms of comparing idiots SSH DS I believe it's a no comparison obtained at least at current prices is doing a better job and also the performance when we looked at it compared to the SSD it actually did score a victory in one of the benchmarks so it is doing its job pretty well so it's priced in Australia very competitively $28 for the 16 gigabyte module which if you've currently got a hard drive and no SSD and you've got that 200 or 300 series model or two seventh HS Intel CPU and you can add this in in my opinion it's a no brainer at that current price point the 32 gigabyte module that is a little bit more expensive is a bit of a bigger add in solution I would recommend that if you've got massive amounts of storage and you need that extra portion anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know if you have any questions or comments about obtain in the comment section below and I'll be sure to answer your questions as soon as I can and if you enjoyed this one then be sure to hit that like button also a big thanks to Intel for sponsoring out this video and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye