hello I'm Cal welcome to another video a comparison of old and new hard drives
video I have made a similar video to this in the past
comparing the two versions of the crucial MX 500 Sata version and also
the M.2 version here is a link for this it's worth watching if you're
thinking of buying an SSD but unsure which format of these to buy there's a
few of the drive comparisons in this same video too I'll quickly go through
some of the drive formats I'll start with a traditional hard drive there are two
sizes to this two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half inches both have the
same connections for power and for data the data is a SATA connection serial
advanced technology attachment SATA has developed and improved in speed over the
years the original sata speed is 1.5 gigabits per second SATA 2 doubled up to
3 gigabits per second SATA 3 is the latest one and that has
doubled up again to 6 gigabits per second SATA is backwards compatible a
SATA 3 drive will work in an older system but only to the limits that
system will allow I have a few drives I have an old 1 terabyte hard disk drive
which I took out of an old laptop this was to replace it with an SSD for my
improve or reuse your tired laptop series.... nice title... here is a link for that
worth watching if you have an old laptop lying around and struggling to find a
use for it there's gonna be more videos in this series to come as well I also
have a 1 terabyte sshd which is a solid-state hybrid drive this was taken
from another laptop but we won't talk about that too much I also have a 3
terabyte hard disk drive which is in my current system before I show you the
comparisons of all these drives I'll run through my specs for my PC I have Ryzen
7 first generation running at base speeds and also 16 gigabytes of RAM
running at 3,000 megahertz I'm using crystal disk mark to compare all of
these drives and I'll leave a link in the description for that so looking at
the comparison table we just concentrate on the first line for now the read and
writes for these two first older drives are very similar a bigger increase for
the 3 terabyte drive which is around 44 to 47 percent
possibly due to it running at 7,200 rpm not 5400 like the other two older drives
second line is where the more complex tasks happen these tasks get more
demanding the more you work your way down for me and my basic needs only need
to concentrate in the first two lines you will see that the sshd has a big
improvement on the other drives on the second line this I presume is down to
the added solid-state part I'd put this drives performance better overall out of
all of these three you really have to decide the purpose of what you'll drive
is for, hard disk drives are ok to store games pictures music and files on but I
would not use one as a boot up drive any longer in 2019 I would only use an
SSD to boot up and run Windows on we will get to them next but if you want to
store your games in a library a hard disk drive is fine for that this is what
I'm doing I would choose at least a 7200 rpm drive to do this though the sshd is
ok for this purpose if you have one already but it would not go up in my way
and buy one next we have to budget SSDs both 240 gigabytes in size the read and
writes on the first line are massive increase for both of these drives when
compared to the hard disk drives 240 percent on the read and about 180
percent on the write look at the second line where more complex data processes
happen another huge increase over the hard disk
drives out of these two drives the Kingston one is the far superior drive
overall but for basic read and writes there's not much of a difference let's
have a look at three more SSDs which is slightly more premium the crucial MX 500
the Samsung 860 Evo which are both 500 gigabytes and the crucial MX 300 which
is 1050 gigabytes not much difference on the first line
with these read speeds even if you compare these to the budget SSDs
compare the write speeds to the budget ones and you get a bigger difference
compare the second line to the budget drives this is a bigger gap in
performance I would have any of these three drives as my boot drive
and they all have been I started with the MX 300 then the MX 500 and then the
Samsung the performance the MX 500 in the 860 Evo are very similar if I had to
choose one of these I would choose whichever is cheapest at the time of
purchase the 860 Evo does have a slight edge I hope this video has opened your
eyes of the huge increase in performance and the benefits of having an SSD as
you're boot up and operating drive, If you are thinking of upgrading there are
two formats of an SSD the two and a half inch and the M.2 format the two and a
half inch transfers data via the SATA cable the M.2 plugs directly into
the motherboard into the PCIe lanes I have covered these in my previous video
which I mentioned before and I will leave a link in the description for this
here are all the figures together SSDs at the top and hard drives at the bottom
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