Hey everyone today we're going to be doing a comparison of the western
digital blue one terabyte hard drive that's in this
lenovo laptop it's a 5400 rpm hard drive we're going to do some
tests then we're going to pop in this solid state drive it's a western digital
green one terabyte ssd and run the same tests
and we'll give you some results so hey if you're new here my name is Ken
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out now we are going to be running two tests
today the first one is going to be we're going to hit the start button
or the power button hit the timer on my phone and start it up and see how long
it takes before i can use a program like microsoft edge now i
don't want to hear from you guys saying that's not very scientific well that's
what you're getting today and it's gonna give you a good idea of how long it
takes to start it up with the hard drive and then with the
solid state drive the second test we're gonna be running
is the crystal disk mark test and just to give you a disclaimer we're
gonna be running it with the hard drive with all the pictures and stuff still on
here then we're gonna swap it out with a
fresh install of windows for this one and again i don't want to hear from you
saying that's not a fair comparison this video is all about
giving you kind of some sample results so um we'll show you those results as
well i've got a samsung 860 evo on the computer right
here in front of me i'll show you what kind of results i got
with the crystal disk mark for that as well and again that's a different
computer with a one terabyte solid state drive
now this computer here just to give you an idea
is a lenovo ideapad 500s with an i7 6400u processor in it
with eight gigs of ram so um if you're interested in any
of these solid state drives there'll be links below to amazon i bought this one
on amazon and as well as the 860 evo you'll
find all of them below in the description so
let's jump into these tests and show you the speeds all right so i'm
going to speed this up otherwise we're gonna be here for a long time
this is the western digital blue hard drive
starting up and there we go it is about two minutes
and 50 seconds before i can start using microsoft
edge so the next test we're going to do is the crystal
disk mark test and this will give us the read and write speed
in a whole bunch of different categories so let's fast forward this again because
it takes about five minutes to do all right so here's the results of the
speed test for the hard drive i got a 73.4
megabit per second read speed and a 63.96 megabit per second
right speed you can pause it right here if you want to look at the other
test results or i'll post this again at the end side by side with the solid
state drive so you can compare them so now it's time to swap out that hard
drive with the western digital green solid state drive again this is a one
terabyte drive and let's see what kind of results we
get
all right so we've got that western digital one terabyte
solid-state drive all installed in this laptop and we're starting it up here
this one's gonna go a lot quicker as you can see we're
already at the welcome screen and we should be at the desktop here
pretty quick there we go and let's open up edge
and we can start typing so about 24 seconds maybe a little
quicker before we can start using programs
so let's go ahead and run the crystal disk mark test on this
western digital green solid state drive and you can see the results are already
significantly quicker let's go ahead and go over them and
again you can pause it here if you do want to take a closer look at
all the tests but it looks like we got 553.23
read speed and 507.81 write speed and again i'll show you all
these results again at the end so i hope this video is giving you value
so far if it is make sure to hit that thumbs up button but let's move into
showing you what results i got with this samsung
860 evo so here's the samsung 860 evo crystal disk mark test for you and just
a reminder this is a different lenovo laptop it's an i5 7300
hq with 16 gigs of ram so just that disclaimer out there
and these are the results i got 541 megabits per second read speed 504
megabits per second write speed and again
pause it here if you do want to take a closer look at these results
and as promised here's the results for all three drives if you want to pause it
here and compare them all right so what are
my final thoughts in upgrading from a hard drive to a solid-state drive well
i'm extremely happy i went from almost a three minute boot time
to about 25 seconds and that's great for an older laptop to be able to boost it
that much it's much cheaper than buying a new computer so if you
haven't done so already i highly recommend upgrading to a solid state
drive now if you're interested i also have a video
i've made on god mode in windows 10 it opens
up easy access to many settings on your computer i've got that link below
in the description also remember to connect with me on social media you will
find all those links below as well thanks so
much for watching today and until next time
take care