Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow.
Today, as a collective, we're going to be learning about SSDs and the insanely fast
future of SSDs.
Let's do this.
So, Kingston have sent us, to take a look at down here, the KC 1000 PCIe Gen 3 x 4 NVMe
drive for your computer.
Now, why would you need something like this?
Let's delve in.
So, put it this way.
Now, this is a really clever way to look at it.
Remember the switch from HDD to SSD.
Think about it this way; if you were going to go out and build a computer right now,
the last thing in your mind would be installing your OS, your C drive on an HDD.
You want to do it on an SSD to get the most out of your computing experience.
So, take that leap in to consideration; from the HDD to the SSD.
Now, put that on steroids and put yourself in the future.
Now we're moving from SSD to NVMe.
So, let's take a look at what we get in the box and then we'll go over a few of the specifications
and why this is necessary and then we'll go about installing this in my office computer.
So, normal SSDs connected to your computer on a, on a device or on a cable called a SATA cable, right.
Now, the interface, SATA, which an SSD or an HDD connects to has a ceiling speed or
a ceiling through-put which means, pretty much, how ever good your SSD is, if it's connected
via SATA, it's going to top out at around 500, 600 megabits a second which is still
blazing fast, but we need to move forward in to the future.
We want faster.
This is where this comes in.
Fortunately, now, we have PCIe which is the sort of connector that your GPU on your computer,
your graphics processing unit, will connect to.
Now, you can actually connect hard-drives - SSDs - to PCIe and take advantage of all of
the lanes and all of the speed - more on that a little bit later.
Now, with PCIe, there's things called lanes but we're not going to over-complicate things
in this video - we just pretty much want to see if this is going to make the computer experience
faster or not.
Now, keeping things simple yet again, this is a gen 3 card, which gives you around 985
megabits per lane - that's mbps.
Kingston says that this card will top out at 2700 mbps and that is enough to battle any SSD.
Let's get this thing installed.
But first, take a look at this.
Right, I'm going to open up Crystal Disk Mark and do a test again and we can test the current
SSD speeds that are currently on my computer and compare them to the card afterwards, once
it's installed.
Let's let the test complete.
So, as you can see guys, in the top left corner, we have the Crystal Disk Mark speed test for
the standard SSD that's currently in my computer.
Let's start the montage and install this PCIe SSD.
So, as you can see by the two blue Windows logos, I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro
on the NVME KC 1000 from Kingston.
It's installed in my machine under the desk, as you can see right there.
I've installed Crystal Disk on the computer.
First, let's just run the disk test and see, and see if this works.
Woah!
Almost 2.8.
2.8! Wooh!
It works!
It genuinely works!
That's insane!
And it just - it was so easy to install!
Just plugged it in and installed Windows on it and...
The proof is in the speed test.
So, as you can see whilst this speed runs behind me, everything is working.
Now, there were two things that I wanted to test out in this video, just for my own benefit,
was how easy was this thing to install - yes, very easy - plugged it in, installed Windows
on it and it's working fine.
The second thing is are the speeds realistic?
And yes they are, as you can see from the speed test.
Now, you're probably thinking to yourself: Alex, I've got an SSD in my laptop, in my
computer - I don't need it any faster.
I don't, I don't, I don't.
But you've got to think about it like this; this right here is the jump from 1080p to 4K.
It's the jump from an HDD to an SSD.
Applications in the near future will be programmed to take advantage of these sorts of speeds
as 4K becomes more widely available.
Saying that, even 8K, these speeds are going to be needed to keep businesses and your TV
flowing with that 8K content.
So, that has been the KC 1000 NVMe from Kingston.
We'll drop a link to it in the description.
It genuinely works.
My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow - we'll catch you in the next one.