I love getting the answer in the first 30 seconds, thanks Joe

SSD for system HDD for storage.

Fun fact this is one of my favorite thumbnails I've made idk why

In short: if you can afford it, yes.

I actually have 15 m.2 drives, my computer boots before I press the power button

Not a techie and I was able to comprehend a lot of what you said. I appreciate it.

It's amazing how far the price per GB has dropped on SSDs since the making of this video.

I would love to upgrade to an SSD but i need my 8TBS of hentai

10:53 You're Welcome.

OK, I just finished watching like 6 videos on ssds. By far, this guy has the best voice, the best rythm and keeps it the most interesting.

The only youtuber that can make a video 12 minutes long and not be boring.

I also want to add that the SSD lowers my energy bill, uses less power, less heat, and you stated perfectly, no moving parts at all. I'm going to get an external SSD drive for backup use.

I have two SSDs in my laptop. Didn’t cost that much for the 2nd one and now I have very fast extra space!

I would personally recommend the use of a relatively small SSD (120 to 240 gigabytes) as the boot drive, and high capacity HDDs for data storage. I would also recommend creating a clone backup drive, using a 2.5" HDD of a similar capacity to the SSD, via a SATA-to-USB adapter.

Does anyone suggest a fresh install or xcopy-ing of an existing HD?

Thio, I use 5 external usb drives for back up of my 2 TB internal hdd and file storage and several of them are 1 or 2 TB. The cost of an SSD is prohibitive considering the smaller capacity per dollar . As a main " C " drive with operating systems , I suppose you need to replace the internal hdd drive with an ssd? Do new pc's come with or with optional ssd?

Thio, thanks your explanation is always perfect. I appreciate your videos.

A good article and I agree that the most benefits would be gained by using the ssd as the primary disk for the os. In my 25 years experience of using traditional hard drives only a couple have ever failed. I still have a few IDE drives form 2003 that work perfectly. Used as archival disks via a hdd caddy, they store some of my old film collection. Dont know if I could trust an ssd to do that.

Being a novice at this computering thing, I am very interested in your videos although occasionally I am lost in the lingo dust. But I guess that is what the pause button is for? Good to see that you have a sponsor and how it was inserted in the video was spot on! You did get me on one of your Gag videos, but I'll get over it. Thank you for doing what you do!

JOE; I purchased a SSD for my Lenovo thinkpad T-430 pro...My question is; do I have to back up my hard drive or copy my data & programs to a flash drive in order to reinstall on the SSD??? Is there parameters I have follow to make the new drive work???

I finally got an SSD in my laptop 3 years ago. I'm so glad I did! I have a 256GB SSD for Windows and my programs, then I have a 1TB external hard drive for files. For video editing, I have a MacBook Pro running final cut with a 512GB SSD, then I have a 4TB external hard drive for file storage.

My hard drive has been with me ever since mt first pc. And it still runs fairly good. I'm impressed. I think I had it for about 5-6 years

Thank you man! I love watching you shearing your knowledge. You are a great source of info and interesting to watxh

So, you'd recommend a laptop with 512 GB SSD for a web developer and with an external HDD over USB 3.1 for video editing?

I use an SSD for my boot drive, but I use HDD's for storage as I am a data hoarder (19.5Tb of HDD space combined), and also use scratch disks for Photoshop. Windows runs better from an SSD but there is no way I'd be able to afford to buy enough SSD's for all my storage needs, and I will never use an SSD for scratch disks.

*_Does this work in India?_*

I have a WD - easystore 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive. Do you think it would work well with steam games? Would I have to D/L Steam on to it AND the games or just instal the games only?

I bought one on sale but then when I open my pc it only had one slot for storage.

I upgraded both my desktop and laptop to SSD just over a year ago. The biggest difference I noticed that Outlook started up a LOT quicker on the SSD. They're worth every penny.

I got a Kingston 240GB and I couldn't be more happy. Everything is much faster now. ^^

I installed a Samsung 750 EVO 256GB SSD over a year ago and it was a huge improvement. I edit hi-res WAV files from album recordings with Adobe CC 2017 and it has helped a lot. But I still use HDD for everything else as I can't justify the extra expense for an SSD for faster storage.

The company I work for recently changed to SSD, the IT provider agreed the HD could be cloned to the SSD A few days later they said they couldn't because of "partitions" and had to format the SSD. So now we have an SSD formated and the HD (secondary) with all the original info. Does this sound right to you?

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THANK YOU THIO JOE! I'm building my first PC (budget style) and the few parts I have left to get are the core processor, HDD and case. I settled on a HDD because I knew of the SSD but didn't know too much about them. This video is just perfectly timed and I'm going with the SSD now, so thanks for sharing your input on that!

Thanks for the information. That's what I needed ot know.

Hey, great video. i have a 2018 3576 dell laptop inspiron. just got a error code saying 0142, replace hard drive. I have a Toshiba MQOIABD100, REV DRIVE AAD ADOO1AXOAID, sata 1tb 5400 rpms. which drive should i get to upgrade to ssd. part number sir.Thanks

Actually, SSDs are getting slower the more data they contain. Also, the reliability drops when the SSD is almost full. If you have a lot of RAM you could use a RAM disk to store your browser session and disable swap to avoid SSD tear.

it is 2017, every pc need one for real, 128 gb and games that use play frequently, and put heavy games on a 2tb one or 1tb

Hey ThioJoe, I’m getting the QNAP TVS-472XT-PT-4G-US 4 Bay Thunderbolt 3 NAS with 4GB RAM, 10GbE, M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD slots with four (4) Seagate SSD EVO 1TB drives... So I can Video Edit 4K ProRes RAW from my Z6 Ninja Kit (once they upgrade the firmware) I think I’ll do either RAID 6 or RAID 10 (sounds like my bottleneck is the thruput of Thunderbolt 3) if I am striping 2 to 4 drives? But I need a cheaper, larger, slower backup to rebuild the RAID in event of a drive failure... Any suggestions?

You’ve answered all my questions, Great vid.

SSD is definitely the way to go. I think it is sad that so many computer companies only offer SSD in higher end laptops. SSD in lower end system would be best bang for the buck for most users.

Thanks for the info! Ive been using HDD forever! My iMac (2013) HDD had recently failed. So i have a 1TB SSD on the way! Looking forward to see the difference!

Thio joe can you install ssd in a laptop? And how do you know if it firs on your pc/laptop (do dofereng laptops / pc need diferent size of ssd? Please reply i really need those answers thanks

Which would be best if you did quite a bit of video editing along with some content consumption and typing documents? Would it be one of the two or would both be better?

My backup drive failed

7:29 fail XD

I am getting 2 x 2000gb SSD crusial x500m i think ... for a gaming PC this should work right ?

(Not very tech help) Will changing the HHD to a SSD effect my os windows 10 ?or is the OS not in the hard drive, I just got a acer 3 ryzen 1 terabytes 4 gig ram,on the back it has easy access too upgrade ram and access too HHD,already purchased an extra 4g memory for it, so would a 250g SSD swop just be ok and computer would work fine /no need too put windows 10 onto The SSD, hope I made some sense for some help cheers👍

The vibration of an HDD will not "throw anything off"

I'm building a $600 gaming PC with a 1TB HDD. I'm planning on adding a 250gb SSD in a few months once I get the money. (I'm only 14.) I can't wait!

How can I add a SSD without removing HDD in Laptop which has no Optical drive??

Hi Thanks for the video! Want to swap my Crucial 525GB SSD from my 2010 Mac to my Toshiba laptop, but the Toshiba laptop only read the drive as 488GB and my Mac reads it as 525GB, why is that? What can be done so the SSD can be read as 525GB in my Toshiba Laptop?

Good to see James Franco making youtube video's about computers and hard drive speeds. Keep up the good work, great channel!

Yes.

Can Parallels boot faster and work faster on a Mac if you are using an external SSD enclosure connecting it with a USB C (Thunderbolt 3), compared to running Parallels native to the computer that only has an internal hard drive on the Mac? I had Parallels working on my MacBook Pro with a solid-state hard drive which was working great and perfect, it would boot fast, and work fast, the only problem is that my MacBook Pro only has 128 gigs bite of SSD, I ran out of room. Can I achieve the same results using an external SSD connected to my Mac rather than having a native SSD on my MacBook Pro? I have both a MacBook Pro that has an SSD 128 GB internal drive, and an iMac with 1 TB of hard drive, and both computers are still under the AppleCare warranty where if I take out the hard drives my warranty is gone.

OK, when I put primere pro (2018) (Media encoder actually) for render, my laptop uses 100 percent CPU (Very old i5), almost 50 percent of my 8 GB RAM , will it improve the encoding time if i switch to SSD ?

Couldn't agree more. Anything *moving* is a *huge* failure point. We should have been off HDDs, over all, for decades by now.

He says ssds can get up to 500 MB/s, but there are m.2 NVME ssds that can get at the same price of sata ssd up to 2000 MB/s or even more.

If I heard you correctly did you say to get a small SSD for the operating system and load programs on a hard drive? When you load some programs doesn’t some of the data need to reside on the main drive? Would that cause issues?

I'm a little confused! I have a regular MLC SSD, that I stored without power for 2 years and a half, in its original pack. When I remembered about it and checked it, all data was INTACT. What is the explanation? Does it have some internal battery?

7:30 Your PC got bored :D

why people turn of their pcs, i just put my pc to hibernate, it just loads the bios again. suspension uses energy but hibernation no.

Where did you find that 12TB Hard Drive at 7:45 ?

Hey, I have really old laptop. Hp ProBook 4310s. It has SATA 2. Can I put Samsung EVO 850 250GB in it?

For those too lazy to watch the entire video: Yes.

I just got an SSD in 2019 (finally) changed my life

hey thiojoe between windows 7 and windows 10 which will be the best and fast to run on an ssd? thank you

sir i have motherboard asus P8H61-MLX rev 3 ...is it compatible to put ssd 120 gb??... pls reply ..thnks. ..

SSDs in laptops are the way to go like if agree

Before buying an SSD use a search engine with the following general terms [Brand Name of SSD manufacturer] [model number and/or capacity] DEAD/FAILED. So something like - *Sandisk SSD Plus 480 GB dead* You'll save yourself a lot of misery when you discover how many buyers now have an SSD that failed in a year or even a few months. HINT - don't buy that one! ;)

Is there a practical way to Plug in a SSD to My Mack and Have it be the primary Drive? Because I just saw my MAC taken apart and I was taken back by the junky looking Small hard drive. I really was shocked just how cheep it looked. So I want to use it instead that way I won’t have the internal hard drive quit on me. I ordered my Mac and have not received it yet.

I have an Nvme SSD for Windows and some apps , I have my games installed on SSHD , do I need a separate SSD just for games ?

SSD drives fail too, just like HD's.

I don't need an ssd my computer memory is overkill 64gb core i7

Awesome video! Great explanations ThioJoe

Used to have a cure 2 duo desktop PC. Was getting quite sluggish in use. Bought a 120gb SSD and it MASSIVELY transformed it. Fast boot, fast loading of programs. For day to day tasks it was as good as a new PC at the time. Only upgraded my PC to play newer game titles in the end!

Does anyone else miss the old thio Joe videos

Most people would assume that if you left the device in optimal conditions, in the correct temperature and humidity, then the drive will last forever. This is actually untrue; data stored on a hard disk drive will gradually degrade, and data stored on a solid state drive will actually degrade faster. This is because NAND flash stores data as electrical charges, which leak away quickly in comparison with changes in magnetic domain polarity. In saying this, data on an SSD won’t start degrading for about ten years, although this can vary depending on the type of NAND memory used. In terms of storage, factors such as temperature and humidity can have a big effect on the lifespan of a drive. Humidity for example can lead to oxidisation of metals inside both hard disk drives and solid state drives. High storage temperatures are particularly problematic for SSDs, as data degradation in flash memory occurs at a faster rate. For day to day laptop or PC users, you don’t need to worry about the lifespan of your drive, whether it’s an HDD or SSD. With mobile devices that are carried around more, you need to take particular care not to drop them. If you’re looking to store data long term, it might be best to choose an HDD over an SSD.

5:48 So backup to WD Passports or whatever you all use every so often? I suggest several weeks to primary backup device. And a few more weeks to secondary backup device. That way you avoid ransom attacks.

Is the speed difference that much better for the higher price if you have SATA 6.0 Gb/s? SSDs don't last as long and slow down over time as they wear out and once they start to go bad and data is on a bad sector of the drive you can't get it back but with a hard drive you have a chance to get the data back if you catch it early enough before the drive goes completely bad.

I got a 256gb ssd, 500gb sshd, and a 1tb hhd!

*But is it free?*

You have a talent to explain things very well, thank you.

Thanks for the advice. Is it easy to install?

Hello

i own a old toshiba and i going to replace the hard drive w/ssd i don't have the cds that c/w the laptop what to do to install windows back on. thanks!

Very detailed info, thanks

But...... i have a *Laptop*

youre a handsome man why dont u be a model :D

*_Whats the name of the song playing in the background in the first 3 minutes?_*

What about portable hard drives. Do they also have this small arm that’s moving around within the case?

Hey Joe.....I'm curious....you appear to be very intelligent....are you aware of your own I.Q.? I realize you might be embarrassed to admit if you're above 140 or not....but,...I'm curious. Thanks.

Does the SSD need to be plugged optimally? Or just plug from time to time.

Wow. I learned something new! Thank you so much.

Joe, is the physical interface the same for a SSD as a hard drive?

You touched on a HD and an SSD on the same computer. I was given two 128GB SSD's. One for system and one for page file. After a clean install the 'puter was noticeably faster. BUT all my data would not fit on the SSD. The Storage control panel and elsewhere allows some directories to be redirected. This would be a nice topic for a video. Associated with this are links. The Apple directories in APPDATA were redirected to the HD. (Only needed when I upgrade my iPhone.) What links would you suggest for a knowledgeable user. We all know a bad link can make a computer unusable. The page file was assigned to the spare SSD for space reasons. Alsp no need to backup the page drive. After there was no noticeable difference. With 16GB RAM, not much use of the page file. I replaced the SSD with a small HD and the 'puter was just as fast. My 'puter runs fine, so I did something right. I checked and could not find this topic in your video list. Thanks for all your good work. Peace

On a single SSD only system (no HDD) hosting a Windows OS, won't the Windows swap file (virtual memory cache) cause problems, rapidly shortening the lifetime of the SSD? (Apologies if I've missed the answer to this somewhere in the comments)

Thank you for this informative video.

very informative! this is really what i want to hear! pros/cons goodjob!

Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge with us. Thank you again.