What SSD To Buy As Fast As Possible

[@flioink]

My wallet drive is the biggest bottleneck of my pc.

[@aiSoju]

lol I feel ya

[@Marshcar]

most underrated comment

[@xeryan2747]

+1

[@just_buka]

you deserve a medal

[@cadyen1410]

420 likes

[@juanbecerra5073]

"The biggest bottleneck, besides your internet co-" *buffers* sigh...

[@keplaredler6024]

Internet connection doesn't really matter that much when it comes to video rendering. Sure, it's important but if you have a good cpu, i5 or i7 and only 4 mbps connection, you'll watch in 1080p with no buffers.

[@juanbecerra5073]

+??? I'm sharing 1.5 Mbps with a family of 4 who frequently use social media, KZbin, and Netflix. My i7-6700k won't do a whole lot to fix that :/

[@Trainboy1EJR]

+??? I have a 2005 Pentium D 840 3.2ghz dual-core, 3gb 533mhz ddr2 ram, Nvidia GT220 1gb vram, and 20mbps internet... I get 1080p 60fps youtube on Edge! I can't even do 720p youtube on Chrome. graphics card/browser is more important than CPU.

[@stinkycheese804]

Weird terms you're using. Do you mean rendering or STREAMING? CPU and GPU acceleration mean everything for rendering, but any remotely modern PC, like made in the last 7 years, can render 1080p fine. It's the STREAMING that involves buffering and that is mostly dependent on the server side bottlenecks. In other words when you get that message from KZbin that your internet connection is to blame, for most of us that is a bullshit lie. It's a bottleneck on youtube's end as I can benchmark a great connection on my end every time they have trouble streaming to me.

[@jasonlisonbee]

+Stinky Cheese, It may be your ISP throttling YT or heavy media sites in general. Not 100% sure though.

[@SebWilkes]

I genuinely had a a buffering symbol happen exactly at the "aside from your internet connection" which I thought was a joke until I realised IT WAS ACTUALLY BUFFERING. Linus ... YOU MONSTER!

[@filippozar8424]

Lol :)

[@yaltschuler]

+Seb Wilkes lol

[@Dr3eamion]

+Seb Wilkes LOL

[@REDVILLEswe]

Wtf I had that too...

[@Samosayummyyay]

+Seb Wilkes I am using an 1GB/s Fiber Optics connection for 40 Euro a month :3

[@LazerLord10]

When I upgraded my HDD to an SSD on my laptop, it was like I bought a new computer.

[@trparky]

+LazerLord10 That's not surprising at all. Most common notebook class hard drives (the old spinning kind) not only scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to performance numbers, they often start digging to China. Notebook hard drives commonly perform far worse than their desktop cousins. Hence the reason why putting an SSD into a notebook PC would make it feel like a whole new computer again.

[@warrenthomas9230]

How did you get windows ect on the ssd of your hdd?

[@pleepler]

SSD manufacterers like Samsung and WD have tools that allow you to clone your HDD, but you'll need to buy a SATA to USB reduction, or you could replace your DVD tray with a universal drive enclosure with SATA connectors, so that you can run 2 disks in tandem

[@johndii2194]

@@warrenthomas9230 Included clone software made that easy. Getting the Bios to see the drive took time.

[@fartpluswetone8077]

I'll get back to this when I implement my SSD

[@GodSEndOMG]

Where can i download SSD?

[@vergo1785]

www.totallynotascam.com

[@GodSEndOMG]

Dynamite Dinosaur Do you mean it or is it sarcasm like me? :)

[@GuvernorDave]

congrats you took that bait like a champ

[@PuppetPlaysMC]

joy what is that website? it redirect me to.. something... and then the tab closed. i just dont want a virus

[@andrewbingham_]

rip

[@svendiehr6716]

Nice saxophone sound coming from the trumpet picture :)

[@ninjalightning2631]

hehehe

[@whitesimurgh6363]

Jeez, give him a break.. He's a nerd.. He doesn't know about real life things!

[@destroyer28100]

I'll stick with my good ol' floppy drives idk about everyone else

[@poodipie]

+Twiist ew, dafuq.

[@SuperGuerillaGamplay]

+DA GANGSTA CAT! pls calm both of your intense names

[@destroyer28100]

im pretty sure my joke went over so many peoples heads

[@PimpMatt0]

That's how I load my OS.

[@cpufreak101]

+Twiist why not pick up one of those USB floppy drive emulators?

[@ng3027]

1:31 I can imagine someone watching this years later thinking, ha that's slow

[@Gabriel-mi9bz]

ha that’s slow

[@DistantThomas]

we now get like 2000+ on flagship models.

[@mids187]

hi from the f.uture

[@Gee25]

ha that's slow

[@calluma3215]

ha that's slow

[@Cup_70]

I get a new HDD and a new SSD and now I can watch these "Fast As Possible" videos as fast as possible.

[@ayankhanna4769]

That sponsor transition was so smooth, just like my face after going to the dollar shave club.

[@Lozz808]

now that was smooth

[@johannesdolch]

That wasn't as fast as possible. "Buy a Samsung 850 Evo in whatever size you need" See that was fast.

[@johannesdolch]

***** It probably can be debated if it is "THE best". But one thing is for certain it is extremely good, fast and reliable. It has been the go-to SSD of the community for quite some time and never disappointed. Its price is in a nice sweet spot where if you go much lower you start to sacrifice performance/reliability big time and vice verse, if you go much higher you start to pay too big a premium for not much gain. Now I am not saying there aren't any other drives that can match that, but if you want a short answer, that answer has been 850 Evo for some time and it always made people happy. So unless something significant changes, why give yourself a headache. If you want to know more, just google some reviews. you would be hard pressed to find a "best SSDs" list where the 850 Evo isn't on it, if not in the top spot.

[@shivpalpatine]

what about 750 evo? Im building a mid level ($600-$750ish) computer and i just want a decent bang for buck ssd. 850 is like 80% more than 750 so.....yea

[@muhammadafzal1377]

Buy the 850 evo. You will be impressed when the Samsung rapid mode is turn on. Rapid off=545MB/s read, 510MB/s write. Rapid on=2800MB/s read, 2300MB/s write.

[@skrtiee]

+muhammad afzal yusni how do you turn on rapid mode? I just bought a samsung 850 evo ssd because I was familiar with the samsung brand.

[@muhammadafzal1377]

just install the Samsung magician software. then enable the rapid mode. You will not notice the improvement at the startup, but in benchmark.( ram> 4 GB is better )

[@BadIntent]

Incredibly informative. Didn't know how fast SSDs could wear out. Watching a ton of your SSD stuff in this sitting!

[@kfl611]

Good ones should last longer than your laptop - last longer than the other components on your laptop - or in other words, your other components will be out dated and obsolete before your new ssd will be.

[@darthpotato1987]

and it shows in recomended after i buy an SSD 😁

[@n3on170]

ProGuy1 Gaming I wonder why?...

[@iconpanik7150]

xxdaplayer5xx he's just saying "should've seen this earlier" rather than "What are these cookie things on my computer? Can I eat them?"

[@veronikalyon6882]

Search in Google - best ssd drive hdpixels Select HDpixels Enjoy

[@credocooperative]

FBI

[@adriennlovasz9340]

Well that’s Google for you :/

[@trulygg]

If found myself at home with no fresh shaving supplies but dollar shave club won't ship to me so I'll have to live with a full beard and hairy balls.

[@niq872]

+- ̗̀new ̖́-Truly Atomic ➁ - The Pre-Prequel ...

[@Xanderqwerty123]

I have a 120gb ssd as my boot drive, and I absolutely love it (considering i got it for free). Made my computer feel so snappy and my hdd storage drive is actually really organized now.

[@scheimong]

Some extra content I would consider worth mentioning when discussing SSDs: 1. Memory cell types: although the initial problems of TLC of short lifespan and speed degredations (Samsung 840 EVO specifically) have been mostly resovled, MLC drives still tend to have much better write speeds and much better consistency and stability over time. 2. Performance under stress: the IOPS ratings consumer drives advertise are usually the performance seen on the first 1/4/8GB read/written. Then, when the drive drops into steady state, the random (especially write) performance can become quite nasty. This relates to garbage collection performance and is a major determinant to the drive's suitablity for RAID. If the firmware is not optimized enough there might even be 0 IOPS points, in which case the system freezes. In the real world this can happen right after transferring large files onto the SSD. This is one of the differences between high end and low end drives that manufacturers are usually unwilling to mention. 3. Power loss protection: different drives feature different levels of power loss protection. Low or mid end drives usually have no power loss protection; some high end drives have basic power loss protection that allows the FLT table to be updated and saved correctly during power outage (e.g. OCZ Vector 180); some high end drives have full power loss protection that allows the whole DRAM cache to be flushed to the NAND (e.g. Intel 730). This spec could be important to people with unstable AC power. 4. User comments on product: this might sound like common sense but many SSDs in the past have had strange issues that don't easily show. OCZ Vector 180, being a high end drive, has had freezing after large file deletion problems; Samsung 840 Pro, being advertized as an enterprise grade drive, has had abnormal performance degredations when using EXT3 or EXT4 file formats. And looking way back, Intel drives used to have the 8M bug and Micron drives used to have drive detection bugs. Being storage mediums, SSDs are not good unless they are stable, and those hidden issues have great impacts on overall stability. Choosing SSD may just be one of those topics that is too hard to explain clearly in one episode. For newbies, I guess the safest solution might just be to buy whatever other people are buying at a certain price point.

[@antenna_prolly]

*"Speaking of a crisis, what if you found yourself at home...!?"*

[@PrinceDragonrain]

When Linus predicts the future

[@Svevid]

Love how i learn something new every now and then from you linus. Thanks :) And good fortune to you forward!

[@jerryg50]

This guy is very good. I like his videos! I work doing support on a large scale with computers and servers. I found with the SSD drives I have used, they all out performed regular hard disks. Some types are a bit faster than others, but for the average user under normal type work there is not much difference. On large servers where there is a lot of file access with multiple users then things can start to get critical to have the extra edge of performance. Stay with name brand SSD drives. Buy the drive from a reliable authorized source. When swapping out a hard disk for an SSD it is very important to properly set up the operating system to work safely with the SSD drive. For example disable defragmentation for the SSD drive. Turn off Indexing. Install a second data drive like an HHD for example, and use this drive for the system swap file. With an SSD is it best to write as little as possible to the drive. Most SSD drives have a write cycle life of 74TB. If a computer was to be writing 40GB per day the drive should last 5 years before failure. From what I have seen the average very active user would not be writing more than about 6GB to maybe about 12GB per day average. Best to be doing most of these writes to a second HHD drive. I use SSD drives for operating system and programs. I have everything set up to the writes on an HHD drive as a second drive.

[@damstachizz]

Or you could not give a shit and just run with indexing on and keep the swap on the SSD. Even then any brand name one will last 5+ years, and by that time you'll have bought a new SSD with 4x the size and performance for 1/4th the cost, probably throwing the old one in the bin.

[@diamondgirls6141]

Jerry G. Can u explain why my Samsung EVO SSD with 6gb/s performance has only 80mb/s maximum transfer rate (when I copy paste into or from to) my SSD

[@albisojan6461]

I quiet admire how Linux relates the video topic to the ad at last.Damn he gets it everytime

[@pcgamingtoday5471]

+Albi Sojan *Linus

[@sirtyler9272]

LOL, as soon as he said "Your internet connection, am I right?", the video started buffering.

[@dansuper6103]

Dennis As Fast As Possible

[@alfredzianini9217]

+Dan Super itd just be FAP

[@OmarTheDeadAziz]

+Dan Super he'd studer alot, & make it slow

[@alfredzianini9217]

sure.... lets say curiosity

[@dennisleung2057]

Im too fast

[@kungpaogao]

Nice, I actually needed this video :)

[@IJoeAceJRI]

I am getting ready to build a computer, you help me so much! I like all your videos and I subbed. What makes you different is your jokes which are hilarious and help us all learn by you making it fun to learn it.

[@AppleNerd11]

Forget 4K performance; what about 1080p performance?

[@sinan5389]

I hope this is a joke.

[@AppleNerd11]

I need to know how well my new 850 Evo will perform on my 1080p screen. Hopefully, I'll get max fps... ;)

[@derAppelkuchen]

+Akoya London if you aren't joking, I feel very sorry for you

[@AppleNerd11]

;)

[@GlycerinZ]

okay so that winky face means you're joking....?

[@OhMahLord]

Floppy disk master race!!!!

[@DynamixWarePro]

+Oh Mah Lord Pfft, we all know magnetic tape is the best!

[@OhMahLord]

DynamixWarePro We will take over soon, taking out those imperialist ssd folk hehe

[@tornet3964]

lol

[@anthonymina8398]

Punch cards are the best

[@touchofthorn1841]

I just count to my computer you scrubs

[@rikkiboodram2911]

I use SSD's as my boot drive and for gaming. Gone of the days I use to use HDD's for that task.

[@MrSkyTown]

SSD saved my Pentium 2 computer lol

[@LETHALF90]

+arclightGS k.

[@Murphistic]

+MrSkyTown You thought, you were joking, but actually SSDs for old PCs are a thing :). CompactFlash (or nowadays SD ) card to ATA adapters are real, so you can install Windows 95 on an SSD in your Pentium I powered PC. But the opposite way is more cooler in my opinion. IBM Microdrive was interesting. It was a memory card that was actually a hard disk.

[@trashunlimited]

+MrSkyTown druaga1? xd

[@seppdroid]

+Power ikr hahahahaha

[@HazewinDog]

+Murphistic that's both amazing and cute haha

[@ragepoweredgamer]

Thanks, Linus! My lawnmower repair guy randomly told me that his computer is slow, and if I can fix it, maybe I'll start doing in-home repairs. From you, I've learned an SSD and a stick of RAM may be the key to saving his office computer, and Freshbooks will be my go-to software to try if I decide to start doing this full time!

[@MegaMech]

One Wipe Charlies As Fast As Possible.

[@Pantsthaniel]

Step one: Wipe your ass Done

[@Brainiarc7]

Thank you so much for this, Linus. This should be the standard for reviewing SSD benchmarks.

[@Tiparium_NMF]

I recently bought a Sandisk Ultra II and I've been really happy with it.

[@LETHALF90]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@28g75]

Good for you, guess what? No one cares!

[@fist425ROBLOX]

+28g Obviously it touched you because you replied :)

[@RadulphusDnB]

+28g Then why reply?

[@Root174]

+-T-X-M- I don't know much, but they're owned by Western Digital these days. So if that says you anything... As always though, do your research :P

[@Scdouglas]

Can you guys start adding links to the websites you mention in the description. For instance, you mentioned the Tech Report thread and I wanted to check it out but was stuck searching for it because the link wasn't there. It's a small gripe and if adding the links just takes too much time or some other reason fine but I noticed it's quite an inconvenience to your audience.

[@panos1b]

+Sean Douglas yeas do that

[@SyslisDragon]

I agree completely

[@Ace123]

4:06 epic inhale xD

[@ZacElCapitan]

+Ace1 IKR HE INHALES TWICE and it's so LOUD lmao

[@Supermanohman]

Honestly, any SSD from one of the big SSD makers (Samsung, Crucial) at any price point will be unnoticeable from any other SSD at the same price point. Write cycles are not important anymore either. You can put hundreds of terabytes on a modern name brand SSD before you get any performance degradation. And by the time that happens, which would probably take like 20 years or so on a normal computer, the technology will be so different that it's not even worth keeping an SSD.

[@Supermanohman]

-T-X-M- Sandisk and Kingston are ok. I always look at the warranty. I like at least a 2 year warranty on any of my storage devices or CPUs or GPUs. With a good warranty you won't have to worry as much about it dying and having to buy a new one.

[@Supermanohman]

-T-X-M- Then I would go with a Sandisk because it's a reliable brand.

[@Supermanohman]

-T-X-M- No problem! SSDs are nothing to be intimidated by. A nice brand name company isn't going to sell a bad SSD nowadays and if there are any problems you get that warranty. A lot of people are afraid that they might get a shitty SSD but that never happens unless you buy some off brand SSD from eBay or something.

[@Supermanohman]

-T-X-M- That's dumb.

[@Supermanohman]

-T-X-M- happy to help

[@baconkingroblox5095]

5:20 'Razor blades' - I see what you did there Linus ;)

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

I really hope that there will be breakthroughs on making the movable parts on an HDD stronger and more durable.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

We now have hard drives with dual actuators.

[@aaronchew]

So.......what's the best SSD?

[@MrSr3nity_97]

.

[@fiascobro5549]

Aaron Chew have a look at the sandisk lineup or samsung evo line, samsung if your not restricted by a budget and sandisk lineup for budget orientated rigs, getting a sandisk plus 240gb myself.

[@aaronchew]

Fiasco Bro Thanks for the recommendation random kind person of the internet ✌🏻

[@fiascobro5549]

Aaron Chew well make sure to do your research cause lets be honest, im just an idiot trying to help :D

[@aaronchew]

Fiasco Bro sure will :D

[@ChineseLion]

I like the way to do the commercials. It is almost another kind of entertainment for your videos

[@AgiBla98]

Some time ago I bought two SSDs and I mount them in RAID 0. The performance boost compared with a HDD is awesome.

[@danielzhan86]

While raid 0 is fast, if one drive breaks, all your info is gone

[@AgiBla98]

Daniel Zhan I also save important documents on one HDD

[@jackmackenzie8870]

the bottleneck in my PC is my ancient ATI HD4870

[@FireHamster]

Just downgrade the rest of your computer, it will be fine

[@jackmackenzie8870]

Haha sure that is the easiest and most efficient way of removing a bottleneck, yep

[@geartooth7884]

Jack MacKelbot proceeds to spend $300 on pentium 4.

[@ToriRocksAmos]

Fun fact: My brother is still using an HD4870 aswell lol.

[@JasonRMJ]

close to mine an ATI HD4850..... >_> will upgrade for a 750$ card

[@aminemokhtari128]

5:05 Linus has predicted the quarantine

[@kushwahaSaurabh]

My old HDD still going strong with over 24000+ hours.

[@Nobody-eg4bi]

amazing

[@THAT.RANDOM.GUY_]

I don't know how he does it, but he always gets me watching the sponsor ads.

[@fortisprocer966]

Wow, that was the best LTT video I've seen in a while. Not that any of the other ones were bad just that that one was great. I heartily agree about that internet. We can't even get Comcast where we live so As far as updates went I didn't get much boost. :P but it did change my pc. Its start time is about 8 sec now with win 10.

[@GrumpyTy34er]

...this didn't really help me.

[@majingamer6109]

Im more confused now than I was before

[@Trainboy1EJR]

Just get a Samsung 860 EVO, good performance, good longevity, as good of a price as you're going to get for that level of reliability. If you have something against Samsung, Western Digital Blue 3D Nand are also acceptable but not as fast. If price isn't an issue, get Intel Optane, it's the absolute fastest and will effectively never wear out.

[@Al-em8tp]

Trainboy1EJR would it be enough to just to get that in 1tb for storage?

[@aarontrejo9256]

so your saying replacing my bestbuys $200 laptop hard drive with a SSD make it faster?

[@SantaMoontech]

+Aaron Trejo yyes

[@EarthboundApocalypse]

+Aaron Trejo - At least is going work much better than with its standard 5400 RPM HDD. Just enhanced read/write speeds, but no 3D graphics enhancements. Don't get confused

[@aarontrejo9256]

+Manuel yea I just my laptops overall opening,closing, multitasking, switching tabs and folders to be faster.

[@EarthboundApocalypse]

It depends on the multitasking capabilities of your CPU and the total size of your RAM. With single or dual core can handle 5 or 6 tabs with no problems and Adobe Flash content.

[@VezeTech]

No it will only make getting information quicker and more reliable, but I wouldn't spend the extra money or time on an old laptop

[@jrsmithunited]

ssd wear leveling/trim/smaart, etc as fast as possible. Does anybody know where to find out which drives use static vs dynamic wear leveling?

[@rkmugen]

I gave priority to TBW (terabytes written), then capacity, then price. Went with the 860 Evo. One year later, to the day, I couldn't be happier. My original configuration was two SATA 250 GB HDDs. One for Windows and Windows Media Center. The other was for my recorded TV shows - this is an old HTPC from 2007. So now - 500 GB Samsung EVO for Windows and Media Center (soon to be replaced with either Kodi or Hauppauge's WinTV) and a new 2TB HDD, partitioned for Linux Mint (as a backup OS........... just in case things don't work out for Windows on my SSD much later on), all my games, documents, and recorded TV shows.

[@burningoyster]

It's crazy how much faster the "as fast as possible" format has become

[@VaguelyFluffy]

Definitely a much needed video... Good info.

[@Lippeth]

I see a trumpet but I hear a saxophone.

[@JohnnyGiddingsCubed]

New editor?

[@cuddlebearkills9339]

They have multiple editors so maybe the Normal techquickie editor wasn't available

[@CaveyMoth]

+Cuddlebearkills Dennis, 你在哪儿?

[@cuddlebearkills9339]

+CaveManta or edzel maybe taran I would say Nicky V but there was a lack of you know the V touch

[@CaveyMoth]

Needs more head closeups to be a Nicky V video for sure, yeah. Who is this mystery editor? =O

[@soundfire79]

Could you guys do a Tech Quickie about Latency, IOPS, Throughput and how it relates to storage devices (SSDs-NVME, SAS, SATA) or pools and maybe possible bottlenecks (Chipset vs CPU connected PCIE lanes) in the storage devices or pools? If you could cover enterprise storage in a server environment as well, it would be awesome.

[@john_thorpe]

I have these questions: 1.) How long would an SSD drive last that is mostly used as a read-only set up (i.e.: boot the OS, and be a place for main programs, like Microsoft Office, etc.) and where the write to it will be minimal? 2.) How can I clone the OS and programs (like Microsoft Office 2010) from a 2 drive RAID 0 array over to a single SSD drive (without having to re-activate programs - as I mentioned I don't know where my Office 2010 key code is to reactivate)? 3.) Window XP 32 bit should be able to handle 6 TB drives as a data storage drive, correct? 4.) If I use something like a 6 TB drive, can I RAID an additional 6 TB drive in something like a RAID 1 where it's a copy of the other 6 TB data drive for redundacy? Or even in a RAID 5 as my system says it supports a RAID 5 (note this is for data, not to boot from), or is that also capped at 2 TB? 5.) If I was able to move everything over to an SSD, is there a way to copy the current RAID setup (OS and most programs) over to a medium that doesn't degrade over time and be able to restore it if I decide to go back to regular drives? 6.) What is the best/better brand of SSD's? Best Buy currently sells these brands: Samsung PNY SanDisk Toshiba Kingston Intel Seagate iBUYPOWER Lenovo VisionTek Best Buy has a PNY - CS1100 240GB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive for $60 that I'm looking into. 6.) Since the SSD will be basically used to boot XP from and to store programs (ones that don't have a lot of updates), is there a way to lock (or warn before) writing to the drive? I know how to install another drive, so programs that have a lot of updates (like Steam, and the game Smite, etc.) would be put on a mechanical drive rather than the SSD. (i.e.: XP OS, Microsoft Office, programs that don't really update a lot, etc would be on the SSD or C drive, but programs like iTunes, Steam, Smite game, programs with frequent updates, etc. would go on a regular mechanical drive or D drive, basically creating a read-only C drive). Also, how can I set up let's say drive letter D (a regular mechanical drive) as the default for My Documents, My Music, My Pictures for saving to where I can change it if I want it to the SSD?

[@Gomangoman11]

"As fast as possible?" *Sets to 1.25 Playback speed*

[@CreeperPookie]

If you want as fast as possible, use 2x.

[@MahmudulHasan-py3sb]

Man you ad announcement is really something!

[@CZARNYEU]

SSD is "must have" now in PC

[@anjumrashid445]

WHERE HAS THIS CHANNEL BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

[@flaviorocha3447]

I bought a Toshiba SSD and it died completely, only lasting less than a month. Now i got my money back and this episode was right on time, becuz i'm a noob when it comes to SSD buying. Thx Linus for making my life simpler :) Note: Yes i still use ADSL 16mbit down / 1mbit up (-.-)zzz

[@Mtaalas]

Gah... that 50hz hum is making my head hurt... please would you figure out where it comes from and get rid of it?

[@ovonisamja8024]

+Mtaalas It comes from your speakers silly. :P

[@Mtaalas]

+ovo nisamja I have fully balanced Genelec studio setup for music production with e-mu audio interface... I highly doubt that. :P

[@ovonisamja8024]

Haha, I meant it as a joke. :) I figured you were a sound guy since not often do I come across comments which are that specific. Do you have an ssd for samples? I'm about to purchase one so I'm looking for whatever info I can get about that.

[@apachelives]

1 - OCZ drives are rubbish, 2 - anything Samsung or Intel is a good reliable choice

[@BlackJacketWasp]

+apachelives i had two Vertex 4 (from OCZ) and one died shortly after a year. Now I'm using Samsungs - no issues so far ;)

[@HazewinDog]

+BlackJacketWasp yeah the OCZ drives were known to be unreliable. they were popular intially though as that was still unknown and they were some of the fastest drives. my dad had a Vertex 2 which died in less than 2 years, and he barely used it. it was an OS drive that he installed nothing else onto.

[@Delayeed9]

+apachelives Nah. Ur shit.

[@angharadhafod]

The pictures behind you suggested that an SSD will compress jpeg images. Possibly just a mistake in your background images. But they can't. JPEG is not further compressible (well, not without permanent loss of quality).

[@acgandhi]

+Angharad And in the next scene is shows WAV as uncomprssable.

[@jeremyandrews3292]

A lot of people are scared by SSDs having a limited read/write cycle and won't buy them. But what they don't understand is that SSDs are actually just so well designed that they can predict when it will fail, and the drive will usually still be readable when it does. The thing is that the moving parts in a hard drive or optical drive don't tend to last more than 3-5 years assuming normal use, and the data often can't be recovered easily because of the failure mode. In order to go through the number of writes needed to wear out an SSD, you'd probably need around 3 to 5 years. So the longevity is roughly the same or a little better. The problem is that people don't like the idea of an MBTF for the same reason they wouldn't like a doctor telling them exactly when they'll die. With a hard drive, there's enough variation in circumstances of the moving parts that it just seems like a random occurrence, which is something a lot of people are more comfortable with than a failure that's predictable.

[@lilturk726]

It actually does help. I've been looking at the Samsung 850 Evo 1tb for a while now and since that will replace my HDD, knowing what info to look for as far as longevity really helps.

[@MKyronGaming]

Are the Samsung 850 EVO great for loading games faster?

[@hameed]

no

[@thetupolevtu-1602]

maybe

[@authoraven]

Can you repeat the question pls?

[@Sethfilms]

Linus media group as fast as possible?

[@rigrentals5297]

I need to sign up for Dollar shave club, my shit is bad LOL. Thanks for another video LTM

[@bishrarar3015]

LTM lmao

[@MrWhiskey1]

+john vidal I know, my electric shaver is shit. At least I can always watch a *4GLTEHDD* video and have higher expectations.

[@ragepoweredgamer]

+john vidal I have the dollar a month version, just 2 blades, and with their shave butter, it's actually really nice. I can only imagine the 6 and 9 dollar versions are even better.

[@rif42]

3:20 JPG files are already compressed. The drive can NOT reduce them by compression. Linus you should know better. Use H2TestW for proper integrity and speed test of flash drives.

[@RobertMckenna]

Simple, straightforward information for people like me, almost computer illiterate. Thanks

[@121Zales]

Omg, that was the best advertisement ever, may just sign up now. Whatever they're paying you for that, they should double it.

[@galamgigul1569]

when links said Internet bootleneck I was just like "where does he live?I got 1000mbps on a router with 7$ a month(Romania)"(the child of Russia mostly)

[@ichbinsnicht5860]

+Halam Gigul Romani aici?

[@MrKenny175]

Romania has the best internet in Europe

[@pettym3]

+Halam Gigul joe biden a avut un discurs in care zicea ca netu romanesc e mai bun decat cel american. multumita unor investitii ale unor oameni de la timisoara avem de vreo 5-10 ani net prin fibra optica, fiind una din primele tari care am adoptat aceasta tehnologie. tu cum esti un mucos de vreo 15 ani probabil habar n-ai de chestia asta

[@dXXPacmanXXb]

+Sumi chobo source?

[@ichbinsnicht5860]

dxxPacmanxxb you don't know how to google?

[@kfl611]

They were expensive but I bought a 'enterprise - aka data center' ssd hard drive. It had an issue, so I thought it was defective and purchased another one. That 2nd one worked with no issue. The first one, I then ran chkdsk on it and miracles of miracles then it was fine and I could format it. I wanted a sturdy ssd, that would last a long time in my laptop. Both drives were used but have 99 % of their life time left. So I should be good for many years.

[@jaspervanson4486]

I would have liked to see that you also talk about M.2 and PCIe SSD's instead of only sata. And even though it's a techquickie maybe a recommendation for gamers/editors/programmer/day to day use. But this video still clarified some things so thank you.

[@KuSQ3N]

most of the viewers are EU and you can´t even ship it to eu

[@fadefade]

+MonkeyFace Is UK in EU? Hmmm...

[@Anttonilla]

+MonkeyFace UK is in the EU. Murica is not the center of the world.

[@fadefade]

Exactly my point.

[@purekeynoob]

+Anttonilla Shhhh Don't tell the Americans that or they will summon their sky god to come smite you.

[@kevh6303]

+MonkeyFace No, they are a full member of the EU. They are however having a referendum this June about maybe leaving.

[@ToriRocksAmos]

If you don't have an SSD in 2016.... Wtf mate, just go buy one *right now*.

[@KungFuBroFist]

Marcel Krebs Shut up.

[@ToriRocksAmos]

@TheFreQiest How about no?

[@KungFuBroFist]

Marcel Krebs Bruh you don't tag people with the @ symbol anymore lol

[@ToriRocksAmos]

@TheFreQiest I do.

[@iBoolGuy]

LOL

[@Jerson_Go]

Hi linus i was wondering if the Samsung 850 Evo is worth to buy or not? Or recommend me another brand of SSD which performs fast just like the Evo.

[@iBoolGuy]

you got one already? or still looking for one??

[@DeanSmith84]

NosRej D'Roux 850 evo uses tlc nand *yuck*

[@DeanSmith84]

iBoolGuy HyperX savage is the way to go

[@iBoolGuy]

Dean Smith that's the one I got, it is perfect!

[@thecryingweaboo]

i thought that was a real spider on my screen....

[@Alamdiens]

I enjoy his advertising as much as I enjoy the rest of the video. Linus you are great man keep making these awesome videos:)

[@matejhockicko5950]

Me: bought SSD KZbin: recommend this video

[@viniciocoelho3538]

Would game loading be faster on a SSD?

[@HiteshBhagatGameTech]

Yup Yup !!!!! even cheapest ssd available will be many times faster than your avg disk drive.. diff will noticeable immediately !

[@BaraTheVeggie]

In some games it's already fast even with HDD, but in games with lots of loading screens, such as Fallout, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, STALKER, you'll get a big and noticeable boost. I shaved off 20 seconds of loading in heavily modded Fallout New Vegas easily.

[@darkprinc979]

Be wary of autosaves though, that can potentially destroy your performance. If you can tell the game to install on a hdd make sure to do so.

[@MF_ZORO]

Why exactly? What's wrong with saving to ssd for it's speed?

[@darkprinc979]

MF Zoro Because ssd's have a limited number of times you can write to them, and performance will gradually decrease the more you do so. I don't know about other OS', but Windows automatically turns off certain services if it detects that it's installed on an ssd to preserve its lifespan. My last post was primarily about the Elder Scrolls games, which autosave a lot compared to other games.

[@AirG]

Power supply tier lists as fast as possible

[@peter_smyth]

That sounds like a good idea

[@ciri151]

Samsung 850 or 960 evo or pro The rest is inferior. That's all you need to know.

[@kalowyd7595]

but 860 is better than 850 at all

[@sopeekaboo6794]

@@kalowyd7595 I agree I have 860

[@fartpluswetone8077]

Don't forget crucial MX500 models

[@griffingreen]

This dude really on every tech channel on KZbin

[@monepato4721]

2:11 my eyes are burning that comic sans

[@hisfatness522]

4:06 Best inhale 2016.

[@robbiefisher1]

Yes!

[@ladystrawberries5267]

+Glass|Fire *Breath*

[@pppshr5542]

"You can use butt wipes on your face if you use it first on face, not butt" LOL!

[@nike12000haha]

Should do a ram drive vs ssd

[@TheCyfire]

On that subject: the read and write IOPS of RAMdisks are in a whole different league than even the Intel DC P3608 4TB SSD

[@morganmcnerney6222]

Incredibly useful info ... especially Tech Report website.

[@FeralEngineer]

Perfectly fine with two 240GB SSDs. Intel520 in the desktop PC for the performance and reliability (130 TB written and still not even one reserve sector remapped, the performance is quite high for me and the price a year ago was in par even with the newer "mid-consumer-class" SSDs. The other one is Crucial MX300 added into the Thinkpad X230t only because I was tired of recovering data from damaged HDDs - the first one was damaged when the laptop saved my back during a bike crash and the second one got the surface damage after a 4 feet high corner drop on the stone floor at the scientific conference where it had to act as a backup presentation machine. This one is not as fast, but was by far the most reliable one among the "budget-class" SSDs at that given time. 245 TB written without any bad blocks. BTW, the laptop itself has only several scratches down into magnesium body after such an abuse. The only SSD I had bad luck with was a 240GB Kingston SSDNOW 300V, that got 4 bad blocks in sequence at just 1.5TB of data written and locked itself in a low-perfomance mode at 1.5MBps writing speed! "Thank you", firmware makers, for ensuring, that your SSD will live throughout the warranty period, so it can not be returned as defective. The men at two official service centers just kept telling me, that "you still have 99% of the reserve blocks left, so it is not defective and we will not replace it".

[@Stahlwollvieh]

FPS's? F'sPS if I may... :P

[@Stahlwollvieh]

Matt Frameses per second, naturally!

[@peterstrong772]

love the butt face wipes, lol. now that's how u make people watch ads

[@jd52wtf]

Samsung 850 for now. Simple. No reason to make a video about it.

[@mistletoe88]

+jd52wtf teach a man how to fish...something something something

[@tarcomarco2820]

i like how at 1:24 he is supposed to be playing a trumpet, when the music in the background is a saxophone!!?? Great Job Editors Thumbs Up!

[@dhawk1755]

Hot Swap Bay just solved my quick swap memory issue. Thanks buddy.

[@kakashi99908]

Guys don't bother watching the video just get a Samsung.

[@DarthSinistris]

fuck I'm 10 minutes too late

[@cuddlebearkills9339]

+DarthSinistris fuck I'm 27 min late (actually I was going to say get a Mac) jk

[@sudd3660]

+Duck google samsung problems beforehand, that brand has and still to shady stuff. especially samsung ssd is having problems, stay away!

[@Fridgemusa]

I wonder if Linus loves his own farts?

[@somedude4122]

+Fridgemusa ...... Good Question..

[@420sakura1]

With his arrogance most probably.

[@AngelRani]

I have a Toshiba 1TB HDD, a Western Digital 500GB SSD, and a PNY 120GB SSD. These drives help me a lot with Windows on the WD SSD, Debian on the PNY SSD, and media files on the Toshiba HDD. Surprisingly, the 500GB WD SSD is a lot faster than the 120GB PNY SSD. I thought the smaller SSD would be faster, but I was proven wrong.

[@mzjango]

Good stuff! Possibly could have touched on Nand architecture in this vid too.. TLC, MLC, SLC and the Pros/Cons of each.

[@cloudstrifeification]

SSD = operating system and all your software; HDD = everything else (pictures, music, video, games)

[@georgesdemontalivet1635]

SSDs are much better than any HDDs, he just said it. So UNLESS you're on an extremely tight budget so much that you absolutely HAVE to give up on this fast booting/uploading/downloading/transfering sweetness, and that you also NEED like 3 GB or more of storage, you really should go with an SSD for your games, videos, or any stuff that you're going to look at...

[@CreeperPookie]

Or big ssd

[@KRGraphicsCG]

I am glad I saw this video... trying to decide if I should go for all internal SSDs or one NVMe drive for OS and mechanical for everything else...