that time when booting up meant you get your morning coffee :D

When he said 2nd gen Intel I realized this video is from 2011 omg

hate the space gap between the screen and the notebook, floating hinges are so ugly

He said the one on the right, I was paying attention to the one on MY right. I thought man, what a crappy invention lol.

I love you. I'm going to end up getting a SSD since I work a lot on my pc. It will save a lot of time for sure! Those extra seconds does add up like mad.

If your building a PC, get a 120Gb SSD for your applications and a 1TB HDD to store your photos, movies, games, etc. should only set you back $150

I have an SSD in my desktop, but was wanting to see how well one would perform in my older laptops .. Definitely looks like it would breathe some new life into them :) Thanks for the video..

I was wondering if SSD's were really that much faster. You've made it very clear to me that they are. Thank you for posting, your video was very helpful.

Ahhh Windows 7, my favorite.

i miss the old startup on HDD and searched for this video to relive those memories.

WOW!! THATS INCREDIBLE! I DID NOT REALISE ITS THAT QUICK! THANK YOU! VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

So why is it in my recommend after 7 years?

SSD are the best upgrade you can do for speed, my old ever reliable Thinkpad was running a 320gb HD since I bought it but it's always sounded like a bag of spanners and slow, so recently upgraded to an Intel SSD and the difference is night and day, the laptop is ridiculously quiet now and super fast.

Wow, I never thought the speed difference can be that huge.

Thanks a lot! Very well done the comparison. I need people like you in the government, with real comparisons and smart. Thanks again! Keep it up!

You can tell this video is old as fuck because the 120gb ssd is over $1000

HDD's still have a long life as they have bigger capacities but when SSD's catch up on terms of price and capacity, Good bye HDD :P

I already knew the direction I was leaning. I own a Macbook air, and I know the difference that the SSD makes. This just makes me want one even more for my HP laptop. That is definitely going to breath some new air into that computer, and I cannot wait for it.

Great demo! Just perfect! Thank you 😊

You've helped me a lot making a decision. Thanks

In 2018 no one should be without a SSD, especially in a laptop. But even still, if you took a computer from 2011 and put a SSD from 2018, it almost brings new life to that machine.

What a lot of people focus on is boot up speed, and snappy opening of programs, but its also important to consider such things as processing large video files, or moving large files across hard drives, etc. Most of the lower priced SSDs have very poor performance when copying large amounts of data after the cache is full. In other words, its designed for less than 9 second transfers, and if you go above that, the SSD moves at a snails pace, and is actually slower than a fast HDD. Nobody mentions this, because of marketing reasons.

Thanks for the great comparison video!

Very nice sir. Thanks for parallel Demo

Well I can wait extra 3 sec.

Who's watching this after 9 years of uploading the video

Thanks very much!! :) You confirmed exactly what I suspected. Faster boot and app time is worth any amount of dough.

Excellent demonstration.

this video was made 7 years ago wow

got my ssd crucial 500GB my pc is flying super fast its fun,recomended

Does it effects network performances also ? Like downloading and all

Totally worth it, when you doing multiple opperations on large files it will be snapy and you dont have to pause as much.

I want an SSD, but how the hell do you compensate for the low storage?

SSDs are amazing !

Going to change some hardware on my work laptop: 500gb ssd with an external 1tb hdd, 16 or 32 gb of ram ddr4 .. I use it for postproduction such as lightroom, Photoshop and adobe premiere pro.. do you think it's enough for all this?

Cool video thanks for the comparison

i like HDD because i have time eat or make a coffee

SSD is amazing ! I never use a HDD anymore :)

when you open up the program your using, for example in my case photoshop, is there a difference with performance, ie: the 5400rpm runs slower using photoshop than the SSD drive...thanks

My desktop motherboard has 2 SATA 2 & 2 SATA 3 slots. Currently both the SATA 3 slots are taken by the hard drive and the optical drive. I was thinking of adding an SSD and replacing the optical drive with the SSD and connect the optical drive in the SATA 2 slot. Will the optical drive work then??

How much does the number of processor cores play into response time? Since the i5 is about $100 more than an i3, I think I might buy an i3 for a new build and use the money I'm saving to buy a SSD. I don't plan on doing any gaming or real processor-heavy tasks. Any thoughts?

I don't think people get it the difference between the two. SSD are way faster in transfer rate and acces time, consume less power and is shock resistant. It's all electronics. A good desktop HDD have 150 MB/sec transfer rate (a lot less for laptop hdd) while a good SSD can saturate a modern sata 3 interface, about 550MB/sec read/write. Acess time for an HDD is about 12 msec in very best circonstance while SSD have typical .1 msec. Don't forget that HDD get fragmented all over the disk easily which prolongue horribly the acces time into seconds while there is files fragmentation on an ssd, it make no difference in access time. All memory cells have the same figure. There is no comparaison, SDD are better then HDD in every way. The only hold up now is the cost of an SSD memory cell (nand) which is higher but has been fallen dramatically from the last years. So in 2 years the HDD is a dead horse for most computer except data center. The best scenario for now is having an ssd for windows and applications with a regular hdd for data storage. However this is out of question for a laptop.

Thank you for making this video to compare SSD vs HDD. I really needed to see that with Photoshop! Am a photographer & do editing. So would run Photoshop & Lr &.... So was wondering. Thank you again... What is a good size for windows 7 or 8 & photo software on a 24GBRam I7 Quad? On a Desktop with 1 or 2 GB graphics.

does size really matters in ssd when keeping it just for the system not storage.?

i have a 500gb ssd. NO HDD, FUCK THAT.

The only thing I'm concerning is the life, read/write cycles, will SSD die fast compared to traditional HDD? Don't want a sudden death to lose all my stuffs...

This was mind blowing back in the day and it is still now.

Thanks, this was helpful

Folks in the comments, Ideally you want a computer with 2 drives, one SSD for windows and all your apps and one HDD for your file storage, if you have a crappy laptop that only has one drive slot then Western Digital has what you need it's a 1TB hard drive and 120GB SSD in the single enclosure and runs about 200 bucks US.

HHD for more space. I don't mind waiting another 20 secs for larger memory space.

Thank for these video I finally understand(I think). So if I'm not mistaken if I have my OS in SSD it will not just speed up the boot time of of pc but will also make loading of other apps and games(I hope so) faster? Btw I've never have a PC or build one.

Are you supposed to update the Firmware for the SSD as soon as you install one?

This video should of made it clear that they are comparing the SSD with a 5400rpm HDD which is super slow lets be honest. I upgraded to a 7200rpm drive recently and my laptop is now plenty fast enough for loading everything and very respectable boot times. So the price/speed trade off between an SSD and a 7200rpm HDD is one worth taking into account because for the price of a 120GB SSD you can get a 750GB (or more) 7200rpm HDD which is only a little slower. My advice... wait for the SSD prices to tumble in 2014. By 2015 the prices will be perfect. But if you can't wait then 7200rpm HDD's are in the sweet spot right now.

SSD+OS, HDD+MEDIAFILES

Thanks you this video was pretty helpful

The real question is, if I use SSD for my system and softwares, but have a similar PSD on my storage HDD, will it still load any significantly faster than if I had my system and software on HDD?

I wonder if this dude is alive

Any one watching in 2018

thanks. for making this. helpful. video my friend

Wow, I didn't know it was that much faster than the HDD, I am definitely getting me a SSD soon

can i habe ssd pls

Watched now in 2019. Very happy I bought a laptop with 512gb SSD ;)

I've been shopping for a PC with SSD for about a few days now. I've been seeing a lot of computers that have a low gb SSD for a OS and have a high capacity HDD for additional intermal storage. Is there a benefit to this type of system or Should I just run a full SSD (like 1tb). This desktop will be used solely for creating multimedia.

I was hoping to find info on the X555LB model and whether you can upgrade the HDD to SSD. I found the lack of information on that model concerning, but aside, could a representative address this question?

Every ssd is different, motherboard/ports also play a role. From the moment I hit the power button, windows loads up in less than 10 seconds, it's blazing fkn fast. Needless to say, games load fast as hell. It's kind of pointless to get it if you play a load-once type of game like cs go or something but it's extremely good for games that require long loads or constant loading like total war series. Waiting 2 goddamn minutes for a total war load was lame, now it takes less than 15 secs.

1:20 actually extra 20 seconds only

To get the speed difference, do you need both photoshop and the psd file to be on the SSD or can you have photoshop on the ssd and the file on an hdd?

Thanks. Great video

what if a laptop has dual storage .... -.-

for people who are deciding to get a ssd for gaming, u dont really need it. what u need is a core i5 or higher and a decent gpu/ graphics card ( i recommend nvidia gtx 980). also if u want alot of storage, go with a 1tb hard drive or more. 4 tb hard drives are reliable. never go with 3tb.

which hard disk inside first one... which starts faster ???? ssd or hdd

Is it the same, using an external HDD to compensate for the low storage of the SSD?

WHAT?!?!?!? A SOLID STATE DRIVE IS FASTER?!?!?!?!? WHAT?!?!?@>#>#L#>#>#

SSD version $200 more expensive than HDD? Is this SSD made from unicorn horns or something?

Hi Asus NA. I would like to correspond with you about an issue I am having. it seems my hard drive is suffering due to me getting emotional. it was working very super fast and speedy until I damaged it. I tried fixing the head off of the platter which it was stuck I've run test and the arm would not go back and forth now would my asus start at all just booting noises. what should I do?

So how much was the rpm on that hdd on? Because even for a clean installed os, that hdd seemed slow...

gonna switch to ssd :)

30 secs is Totally Worth $200.00

Nice video, helped me understand a lot more. No statistics, though?

good stuff!, thank you!!

As a gamer, I'd never bother with an SSD unless it were large enough to hold at least most of my games. Just having a faster booting OS is NOT worth the money, IMO.

i just don't see the benefits of a couple of seconds boot time

so i have to install the games also and launch it from the ssd as the system to get better performance and let the sources of the games only on the hdd ?

Thank you very much for the video

Another you tuber that puts a 5400 rpm hdd vs ssd. Facepalm.

I dont recommend an ssd. Only a small boot time differance and program boot time differance. NOT WORTH IT

I'm looking at the Lenovo Y-50 with a 1TB HDD and a 8GB SSHD. Thoughts? Please respond soon!

What do you think about Samsung EVO 850 250GB? Or some other suggestion for 250Gb SSD?

SSDs are insanely cheap now a days, just go for a 1TB SSD

HDD for the win I love more storage instead!

Amazing !

Nice side-by-side. Thanx

SSD's are so overrated and not worth it and thats coming from someone who owns one

Can we recover files when the ssd gets wet or damaged?

Thank you so much

What if I have both an ssd and hdd in my machine? Is it because windows was installed on the ssd?

Can you make a comparison of same capacity storage like 640gb hdd to 640gb ssd if possible..

hi, should the ssd installed as main drive or it can be external ssd and we can get great performance ?

Great vid man....

Everyone says to get two drives, SSD for programs and apps, and HDD for storage, but if you got two drives would it be the smartest to format both of them to NTFS?