Is Your SSD FAST Enough? 

look man I paid 20 bucks for my ssd and it boots windows better than my old HDD so it's good enough

Linus: is your storage large enough? Also Linus: is your ssd fast enough? Me: am I rich enough?

I've got a bunch of 3.5 inch floppy disks. Couldn't I just hook these up in raid?

Had a regular SATA SSD as a boot drive, now I have an M.2 NVMe SSD and even thought it's nearly 4x as fast, I can't really notice a difference in day to day tasks :/

title : is your SSD fast enough? . . . . *_HDD users_* : No, i don't think So.

Me an OCD person: Ok, alright. I have the perfect build, nothing to worry about. Linus: is your SSD fast enough? Me: F.

SSDs are fast, but Techquickie commenters are 10 times* faster! *Speed varies.

I remember buying one of the first SSDs from OCZ when they came out. I installed a clean version of Windows and booted it for the first time. So fast. I remember thinking "this SSD is black magic".

Can you make a video on debugging the bottlenecks as you mentioned in the video?

Is your ssd faster? HDD users: I think we bypassed our barrier.

Pretty much any half descent SSD is going to be all you need.

You missed the LTT merch bump at the end with the rgb headphone stand. 😂😂

That timing... seriously I was just looking at SSD and which one to buy... good one Linus :D

Linus with SSD's (a poem): One drive Two drives Red drive Dead drive

Lol you think I care about speed? I shop by display lowest price first thank you!

Any decent SATA SSD is fast enough.... stop pretending it's not... The jump from HDD to SATA SSD cannot be replicated from SATA SSD to anything else even PCI-E 4.0 SSDs. Going SATA SSD from HDD you may save up to 2 minutes on the worst loading screens... Going PCI-E 4.0 from SATA SSD you save up to 15 seconds at most...

Is it an SSD? If yes, it’s fast enough 👍

Linus:Is your *SSD* fast enough? *HDD users* : Well yes, but actually no.

For anything besides MS Paint? Yes For MS Paint? No, no no

you won't understand how much SSDs improve your computing experience unless you move back from SS to HDD and you notice how much frustrating it is

"is my ssd fast enough ?" i don't remember having an ssd.

Small addition to the "your money might be better spent on something else" part: this is even true for file system performance, as free RAM will be used as a FS cache. So for many workloads, spending money on memory headroom means more in terms of effective read/write speeds than a faster SSD does.

Samsung 960 Pro 2TB :) I'm happy with it. (Though having WD Black 4TB as file storage)

This video is so calm, can't believe this is Linus

Finally someone says it! Higher end SSDs will not really help with loading time in games as bottleneck is somewhere else! But even with good understanding of what's going on I still dont understand how to really improve game loading times.. even throwing very good hardware does not seems to help nowadays... is total RAM caching time from IO the key part? Because I dont see CPUs spike above 70% while unpacking textures and so on.. (even on a single core) Would be glad to have Anthony shows some bench with crazy hardware!

Doesn’t matter the human eye can only smell 2mb/s of data anyways 🤔

Loved the IOPS and QD being the first points

This makes a lot of sense. I've had a few SATA SSD perform poorly with video editing. But, a good quality drive usually handles this. Good bit of information Linus and team.

Got that Kingston a400 that you put up in the beginning. 480GB for like 55 bucks. I can't believe I'm using the same laptop! My next PC build will definitely have an NVMe drive on it!

Me, with just a normal HHD: eh.

As someone who only plays games, don't waste your money on NVME as its really not faster at loading games than a standard SSD.

Just was waiting for this !!!😁😁😁made my day thank you linus !

I am a budget gamer, i bought a SanDisk plus SSD years ago, and although it was faster than a HDD it sucked, so i got a Kingston a400 SSD a year later, now this is much better than the SanDisk plus. and not only that it was cheaper on Amazon too. so yeah, that Kingston SSD is great for budget on old hardware.

For a normal user that just do some editing and gaming... you really don't need to think much at all. The SSD I use in my secondary PC is just the lowest of low price SSDs(WD Green) and it has been perfect for a year now.

Linus: Close to 3 gigabytes per second AMD users: Hold my PCIe 4 SSD

I wonder when games will really take advantage of nvme drives

As someone who has an NVME SSD (and previously used sata ssd's as well) I actually feel like the performance uplift in terms of loading times got noticeably better, and turn time waiting in games like Civ 6 and Total War were lowered as well. Of course, I didn't actually benchmark these results so maybe it's placebo effect XD

It would be nice to have more in detail this TLC vs. QLC (like Samsung EVO vs. QVO) issue. I bet few know anything of it.

NVMe for your OS and most used apps/games. A SATA SSD for your game library and a regular HDD for your Movies, series , music or anime. Is that NVMe SSD sorta overkill for my usecase? Yes.. yes it is. But it also ensures that I will never really have to worry about it, just one less potential bottleneck. Which was worth the money, at least for me.

The 970 pro 1tb NVMe m.2 makes my fallout 4 game loading screen seem instant when on consoles it would take up to 2 or 3 minutes

IOPS generally matter more than sequential read & write speeds, for most people. For those copying & pasting large files back and forth all day, the second one matters more. Don't get DRAMless SSDs. Don't get drives with QLC cache.

Yes my Asgard Dramless NVMe SSD got knocked out with less than 4TBW while it was fast with 1500/1500 MB/s speed.

I can appreciate the level of 'sanity' with this SSD vid. All too often I've been ridiculed for why I went with what some considered a 'slower' drive for what they would use it for with no grasp of why I chose the drive I did for my application. Great vid Linus and crew. B)

Recently, the prices on NVME drives have been decreasing, to the point of near-parity with AHCI drives. Though it depends on the vendor. For example, the Patriot VPN100 is pretty comparable to the Samsung 970 EVO, yet it costs $100 and comes with a heatsink.

This is one of the best linus vids I ever saw. Congratulations.

In conlusion: adding RGB to your M2, SSD or HDD will make it x10 faster.

Is my SSD fast enough? I will ask my mechanical hard drive. Hey hard drive, is my SSD fast enough. HDD: Wut? What SSD. Me: precisely.

The way I see it, the bottom line is make sure your SSD drive has it's own DRAM, those cheap Kingston SSD's without DRAM suck in comparison to a more expensive drive with DRAM.

I do both, heavy duty workload and random access. In that regard my 970 Evo does extremely well. But for data storage and games, I still keep my WD Blue HDD for reliability and endurance (which is one of the cons in SSDs).

All this talk about SSDs and I'm here with a Hard drive just fine

I am a retrogamer, play on Amiga and PentiumIII conputer and make videoes, BUT my main PC is a few years old DELL i7 3770 PC. Use it to edit videoes and play Civ V. After a SSD review on this channel i replaced the build in 640GB HD to a Kingston400 960GD SSD and O M G what a speed improvement!!! Its crazy, feels like a brand new PC now, alone the start up is in a matter of few seconds👍🏻👍🏻 Love this YT channel, keep up the good work

People usually buy SSD to increase OS boot speed

Is your ssd fast enough? *Laughs in EMMC*

DRAM cache is really important. What is alarming is that some NVME drives don't have one.

im glad you did a vid like this i was going to upgrade my ps4 to an ssd ,but not that much more faster .thats why i will upgrade the hd to a bigger storage instead

Yes. SSD are faster compared to HDD. I don't care (can't distinguish) if SATA SSDs are 10 milli second faster than NVMe SSDs.

An "RGB HEADPHONE STAND", really important!

Most important thing to me is latency, that's why I cheaped out since I don't need write/read speeds, just SSD latency.

I agree with linus a rgb headset stand is the most important part of a gaming system

YES

Linus: "You might see up to *three gigabytes per second!!!* " Samsung: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

at least in my experience, even cacheless drives are usually more than good enough as long as they're MLC-based. I have a mushkin eco2 that still works great... apart from the fact that it'll kill itself if my machine ever goes into hibernate mode (thankfully the manufacturer replaced it at no cost when that happened)

I did the math and purchasing a SSD would save someone (myself personally) 8 hours a year booting up my PC! It really pays for itself after awhile! I booted in 2 minutes before on an old HDD (2014) and now I boot in 58 seconds from my SSD (which I got in 2018). I tend to shut down my workstation every day and boot it up again in the morning depending on if it needs to process a task overnight and I have saved about half an hour month just in boot times!

Would love to see a techquickie on difference between variance in SSDs such as, SATA, M.2, PCI-E & NVMe

funny I was about to buy an ssd... . . . . . . Linus lives in area 51 confirmed

erratum: .. 2:07 "...for the head to position itself correctly over the platter before any data could be read." because only the actuator arm moves the head in hdd, not the platter. 😊

But is your RGB headphone stand RGB enough?

Some games need SSD not for loading screens, but for loading the world/textures as you move and it does make a difference, specially with all these unoptimized games we are getting

For game loading times nvme isnt faster than ssd . I'd say nvme only as boot drive and for drivers and programs you use often

linus reaching for his junk to scroll through the teleprompter is truly unnerving

Then you have me, who was affraid of my SSD breaking too quickly so I bought a Samsung 970 Pro. That's 3.5/2.7 Gbps sequential read/write, in other words: duplicating a 16 GB file takes about 10 seconds. I have it for a year and S.M.A.R.T. still says 0% lifespan used. I'm definitely reusing this when I get a new PC.

This was really interesting and instructive. Gotta love techquickie!

At this point selling a laptop with only a 1tb HHD should be considered a scam.

[Linus = cookies] confirmed, looking for a school laptop > affordable laptop videos that same day, comparing my m2 to see if i need an upgrade > (you get it)

Wow, this just helped me from being shot in the foot ;-; thanks Linus and everyone else ^-^

I bought a 500gb Western Digital and I can't imagine how things could go any faster, it's lightning quick already. It would have to be a pretty minor difference overall. M.2's are cool but I don't think everyone needs them.

i dont understand. i need anthony to explain. 😂

2:07 actually linus you wait for the heads to move around on the platter, all the platter does is spin

I belive that my raid 0 nvmes are enough.

Regarding gaming, one game I can say that _absolutely_ benefits _a lot_ from SSDs is Path of Exile. I'd practically list it as a minimum system requirement unless you like dying due to computer freezes, and the game constantly taking many minutes to load areas in a game where you're _CONSTANTLY_ changing areas.

I finally upgraded to ssd this year and I can see the difference, I will never use my hdd as system boot drive.

My old pc using a HDD needed about 5 minutes to fully boot and still took some time to get Firefox to open after booting. My new one has a Samsung 2TB 980 Pro nvme SSD and this one boots in 15 seconds and I can open Firefox the moment I see my desktop, which was impossible on my old system. I saw my desktop but it took several minutes before I could open anything on that old system. But as you said, I noticed a big speed reduction when copying big files after that cache was filled. It started out damn fast but went slow damn fast too. But still faster than a HDD so I'm not complaining.

Unless you get a Samsung qvo and it runs slower than a HDD once it's turbo cache has been used aka any windows build upgrade rofl.

Just bought 860 EVO 500GB a few days ago and it’s blazing fast compared to my old SanDisk 128GB (actual full name) from 2012 so I am very happy

id rather invest my cash into something thats really ganna make me better at games. like rgb lighting.

Wow, this is a fantastic overview of SSDs

Sick. I was literally just wondering about this stuff

Witty mention of essential RGB stand at the end...priceless XD

First of all, I need ssd for " is your SSD fast enough".

What a coincidence. I just went through a bunch of Linus's videos about SSD today, when I was deciding if I should get EVO 860 with Sata 2 and AHCI. Just to compare. WD 7200 1TB 4k 0.5mb. EVO 860 250GB sata 2 4K 45mb. Same price. I can easily upgrade to sata 3 with the PCI adapter, but honest,ly it's more than enough.

Great, right after I ordered a completely unnecessary Samsung 970 evo

I bought the Samsung T5 for my One X. Big difference in most cases. Forza Horizon 4's initial load now down to a minute from two and a half. Well worth it!

Got into the server room at work today, had huge hard drives, 43gb each. A 2.5in was 72gb. Bunch if floppy disk and those round rolls

Is your 2080ti fast enough? Has it RGB? If yes, it is. If not, throw it in the trash. It's basically a pile of shiny plastic

Linus, Great info. I love all your videos. You and your guys are the best. You have an awesome setup and love your whole setup and ideas. You are the man.

ssd? i'm still in the hdd era

Great vid, love all of them

Is that a real question? Is my SSD fast enough? Lol, it probably is...

Do a detailed video about mbr and gtp,pros and cons and performance differences.

I'm running my ssd on sata 2 so ...🤷‍♂️