This man is a gent among gents and a great orator of all things tech. No loud music, no dancing graphics, just friendly sound advice. Thumbs up every time! Thank you, kind Sir!!!

@mishahul

Жыл бұрын

i like this guy for the same reason. He is like a father giving friendly advice

Hard to believe that this man still checks comments in a 3 year old video

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

I do! :)

@powerbastion1083

3 жыл бұрын

That’s because he’s the best

@afterburner3999

3 жыл бұрын

he's enthusiastic bout his ssd's.

@omegaman1409

3 жыл бұрын

I always liked tech.

@TheYaq

3 жыл бұрын

i guess good youtubers does that

8:38 - "over a decade", that's all I need to hear.

@yrnajd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! 🤣🙏🏼

@sndgrpr6633

4 жыл бұрын

SMART reports that the OCZ Vertex 3 in my 10 y.o. everyday system (total power-on hours of 4.02 years) still has a 'remaining life' of 98%. Sure, it's a boot disk, not a data disk, but I've done nothing fancy to minimise writes to it (e.g. redirect temp files elsewhere) and speed-wise it's still much faster, cooler and quieter than the (long since dead) WD black drive it replaced.

@Knaeckebrotsaege

4 жыл бұрын

My very first SSD, a 2009 64GB Samsung PB22-J (badged as a Patriot Torqx M28) which was the predecessor of the Samsung 470, which in turn was the predecessor of the 830 (just to give you an idea how far back this goes) has only recently started showing issues. It still works fine, but it's SMART status reports that there aren't many NAND program/erase cycles left. This SSD was used for 11 years on a daily basis (first in my PC, when I upgraded I put it into my moms PC) and only now started showing issues but not outright failing/dropping dead. If these very early and somewhat crude SSDs (the PB22-J didn't even support TRIM until the very last firmware update) manage to last this long, I'm honestly not too worried about newer, more advanced ones with better wear leveling, provided we're talking big brands that produce things themselves like Samsung, Crucial, Intel, etc. and not the cheapo brands that just slap their name on products made by someone else and don't actually produce anything themselves (like Kingston, Adata, Corsair, etc.)

@jimmay1988

4 жыл бұрын

I've surpassed the 10 yr mark.

@Grayfox01

4 жыл бұрын

8 years and counting.

I have been using my 500GB Samsung 850 EVO I bought on April 17th, 2016 for a lot of video editing, countless hours of game recordings, and today (April 3rd, 2022, 2177 days after), the Samsung Magician reported 87.6 TB total bytes written (40.2GB/day usage rate), and the performance benchmark is still strong, at 542 MB/s sequential read, 519 MB/s sequential write, 84006 IOPS (random read), and 57979 IOPS (random write). Drive is currently at 80% full.

@jamesedwards3923

Жыл бұрын

I considered buying the 850 and 950 serioues. Almost a decade and still no fail warings.

Hard to believe that this video was recorded in the early '80s.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

:)

@additudeobx

5 жыл бұрын

Why don't you make a technical video and post it on KZread? Be sure to post a link....so I can read all the berated responses to your efforts....

@norokelt

5 жыл бұрын

uuu... someone can't take jokes, time to visit terapeutist ;)

@Harp00nX

5 жыл бұрын

It's like something off BBC2 !

@VideoNOLA

5 жыл бұрын

@@Harp00nX It's that 8-bit theme music and analog sound effects!

Main advantage is speed. Cut waiting time. The older you are the more you need it. Life is short.

@andrewmckenley5355

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@joedollarbiden9823

4 жыл бұрын

Life itself kinda works like an SSD when we apply same logic onto space-time.

@fentonbarned9381

4 жыл бұрын

Smart

@atomictraveller

4 жыл бұрын

when you're old, you'll understand why i think you're a douchebag for giving up 100,000 writes for 10,000. you'll just buy the new OS. you'll just buy the new s/w. because you don't know the difference between the new s/w and someone who cared about what they were doing. enjoy your fast 10,000. live fast die young.

@RedMaitreya

4 жыл бұрын

@@atomictraveller What? the phrase "live fast die young" is to encourage people to take risk because tomorrow is not guaranteed.

i don't know how but somehow your hairstyle adds to your credibility.

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

4 жыл бұрын

People who know a lot about hair, don't know anything about computers.

@fractalofgod6324

3 жыл бұрын

Proper geek hair that is

@fractalofgod6324

3 жыл бұрын

The slight lisp is full geek too... His geek game is very strong

@mrblister8359

3 жыл бұрын

@@fractalofgod6324 .He geeked me out i made a comment on the raspberry pi video he said it could replace a desk top pc. i said no it cant you can buy a quad core xeon that will run 24gb of ram and i bought a used hp z400 cheaper and he replied.. no you can't tottaly geeked me out. But he is wrong a raspberry pi can't run music production and video editing softwear it's a toy little computer.

@mrblister8359

3 жыл бұрын

@@MohsinExperiments ..with Music production and video editing you need alot of ram and cpu. but there so cheap if you know what to look for like the hpz400 you can put 6 core 3.20 ghz and there £25 used on ebay. A rasberr pi will be slow just to surf the internet even a android phone is faster.

It’s like watching the bbc’s education series from the 70’s, when they had decent presenters and topics. Great video.

@bsauce4879

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed you copied my style

Let me save you 8 minutes. 8:38

@danielomoore7902

5 жыл бұрын

well , thanks...cheers..

@Zanemalmrose

5 жыл бұрын

the world needs more people like you

@fahadking2442

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate got board around 4mins and saw your comment and saved myself some time.

@Dminki007

5 жыл бұрын

YOU ROCK!!!

@shashwatvangani6180

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

All information, clear, unambiguous, no crap

@Lucmatins

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly my words

@zukhrufrehmani5585

4 жыл бұрын

and we are like a kid in philosophy lesson....!

@hxhdfjifzirstc894

4 жыл бұрын

AKA the hallmark of genius

@scottharvey-davies1607

3 жыл бұрын

All true. However, unless you are very technical in pcb/latency/electromagnetic ins and outs, this comes across as slightly over technical. Well covered. But whats the short version. Whats the ETA of SSD failure in a guesstimate ??

@norfilmshetland

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottharvey-davies1607 the simple answer is - all will be suitable unless you are into very heavy useage in which case it suddenly becomes important

I bought my first SSD 10 years ago, its a Corsair 120GB SSD, I've used it first for SO, then for games, and now to download stuff. Not one single issue so far, still running perfectly and I assure you that I've used it almost every single day.

@kidrauhlpop

3 жыл бұрын

beacuse it uses an old memory technology (SLC or MLC). Pros: More lifetime. Cons: Low write/read speeds vs actual ssd.

@jotonroton5232

2 жыл бұрын

top

@jamesedwards3923

Жыл бұрын

@@kidrauhlpop That is a concern. However, I did not pay attention to it on my M.2 drives. Based on my expected usage. I might be upgrading in in seven to ten years anyway. Sad, you would think longer life would be marking point. In the future. For longer term storage, 10 years not plugged in. I will buy enterprise drives. Yes, I do buy platter drives. For moderate term. However, SSDs are a bit more physically resilient. Especially for off site backups.

@lordpurchase9189

Жыл бұрын

@@kidrauhlpop I would rather get more life time from an SSD over speed.

@toussaintlouverture9666

11 ай бұрын

​@@lordpurchase9189 same here. I prefer longevity over speed because what's the sense of having something fast that will die on you when you can get something slightly slow that will certainly outlast it's rated life expectancy?

Why couldn't I have had you as a teacher in school? You explain things in an easy to understand manner and in a not complicated way. And interestingly too!

Golden rule #1: backup your data, nothing is fail proof

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

The 3-2-1 Backup rule remains the most wise: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHqDmLCyfKy2Z7A.html :)

@leonreynolds77

5 жыл бұрын

Yep.. and backup stuff more than just once. Maybe even 3 or times.

@NeilRoy

5 жыл бұрын

Agree, but with SSDs, what bothers me about them is that they are guaranteed to fail. Sticking to my beloved HDD, only ever lost 1 in my life.

@leonreynolds77

4 жыл бұрын

Probably right.

@dimbulb23

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeilRoy And HDD aren't guaranteed to fail? They are. Everything breaks. Entropy sux. HDDs have moving parts, use more electricity and heat up much more, get fragmented and are much, much slower than SSDs. Any PC that less than 5 years old and is still running an HDD as the boot drive is slowed considerable by that HDD. Its fast processor/processors are HDD-bound, waiting way too much for stuff to do because the disk is too slow.

you are a gift to the computer world, i remember stumbling upon your channel when raspberry pi cards were in the limelight, man im so glad i got to find a channel that actually cares and only want to teach

I wish I had seen this video a month ago; I spent 12+ hours researching SSD's in every variety. What bothered me most was that Samsung has chosen to "re-write" the terminology. I reasoned that I wanted at least MLC for a minimum, I wanted to avoid TLC. Samsung has decided to call their TLC SSD's "3MLC", never giving any reference to actual TLC drives. I ended up, after endless searching, buying a Samsung 1TB V-NAND SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2. I am very glad to have found it. It is TRUE 2-bit MLC, with a 5-Year Limited Warranty or 1,200 TBW. Samsung sells this drive for $270, delivered; I found mine for $217, delivered.

I watched this 3 years ago, my drive is still alive!

@souravde970

3 жыл бұрын

Bro i use pdf reading, surfing and video editing on my laptop. My budget is very tight. I am getting kingston 120gb for 1599,240gb for 2399. What should I do? My hdd C drive has 88gb space used up.

@TheApolloZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@souravde970 240 GB will have more P/E cycles, as mentioned in the video and thus last longer if you leave 10-20% of space unconsumed.

I accidentally click on this video and I am really impressed by the way he explains about the ssd life span, his voice, his look and even his hair cut :@

@freshbakedclips4659

3 жыл бұрын

so classic yet presentable and clear

@dompavonschtek

3 жыл бұрын

Dude is brittish, ofcourse its gonna be exemplary.

@YeOldeGeezer

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like he could almost be stand in for the Beatles if they were still living 😂😂

@Bezzer1975

2 жыл бұрын

I'm getting 70's open university vibes!

after spending 20 years plus building and fixing computer systems and have been out of the loop due to farming and forestry life change, I now find myself in need of an upgrade and your excellent information and presentation has brought me up to speed...keep up the good work

Hard to believe that this man still checks the comments in a 6 years video 😊

@ExplainingComputers

9 ай бұрын

I do!

I bought Apacer AST280 240GB 4 years ago and it is still doing great at 97% health, just past 15 TBW.

came for the SSD explanation - stayed for the Haircut :D

@wolfshanze5980

5 жыл бұрын

Ok... I LOL'd hard on that one.

@CasperUK31

5 жыл бұрын

He's like Steve Davis' attractive brother

@NeoKyoKusanagi

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

@snozzlehead92

5 жыл бұрын

That's a mighty fine haircut, though...

@thatspiritualhumane

5 жыл бұрын

This man lives today but is actually alive in the 70s

The structure, pacing, and level of detail in this video are spot on. Thank you! Other KZreadrs, take heed.

@charleshunter1954

6 жыл бұрын

YY & clear diction. Nothing like English spoken clearly without drama inflections etc.

@jotonroton5232

2 жыл бұрын

nice

As a professional in high tech, your video is an an _exceptionally_ well articulated summary of SSDs with just the right amount of detail. I came across this quite by accident (already know SSDs well). A couple of suggestions potentially for other videos (perhaps you have them already): 1) Comparison between SSDs and HDDs WRT reliability 2) Comparison between SSDs and HDDs WRT data recovery after failure (generally more difficult to recover off of SSDs) Lastly, the decision to choose between SSDs and HDDs also depends on use case (e.g., whether you travel a lot and the drive will be used for your laptop) vs. a drive that is largely used for backup on a machine that is not mobile. Again - great video!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Ideas noted!

@jotonroton5232

2 жыл бұрын

ok

@jirehla-ab1671

6 ай бұрын

​@@ExplainingComputerswhat tbw of ssd u have and do u ever write lots of gigabytes when editing in the ssd?

Life expectancy and speed: 1) I used to have four, 240 GB (OCZ brand) SATA SSDs in an old computer, in a RAID 0 (cost much less to have those four drives vs one 1 TB drive, back then). Anyway, I used those drives for 10 years, until I replaced the computer. Those four SSDs never wore out, and I still have them, collecting dust. 2) In April of this year (2021), I started doing Chia processing on four 2 TB, Samsung 980 Pro, M.2 SSDs. The Chia processing writes approximately 3 TB to 4 TB of data to each of those drives, daily. At the time of writing this comment (October 2021), all four of those drives are showing no signs of tiring. 3) I have a 2 TB Samsung T5, to which I write 3 to 4 TB of data each day. I have been doing this for months. The drive is showing no signs of tiring. 4) I briefly had a 2 TB Samsung T7, which sucked. It apparently used fast NAND fabric for something like its first 100 GB of writing, and then some crap NAND fabric for the rest. So when continuously writing hundreds of GBs (or a TB or two) of data to the T7, it would fly for the first 100 GB, and then slow down to sub USB 2.0 speed. When the T7 drive is idle (but connected to your PC), it will silently move the data from its super fast NAND cells to its super slow NAND cells. Thus, freeing up the fast NAND section of the drive for new write requests. As such, nearly all users will always have the fast NAND section of the drive available for use, and nearly all users will never experience the drive slowing down. If you run CrystalDiskMark or some other performance measuring tool, and leave it at the default values (something like 5 GB of data for the test), then the T7 will show amazing results. But change the values to 250 GB, and watch the results go down the toilet -- and be prepared to leave the test running for an eternity, because it will run for a very long time. Folks posting benchmark videos never really push the T7 with lots of data. So those videos always show the T7 as a top performer (because they are inadvertently testing only the ~5% fast sections of the T7. If you need the capacity that the Samsung T7 offers, and you will never write more than a few GB to it at a time, then you will have a super fast drive that never shows signs of slowness. But if you intend to write huge amounts of data to it, then look elsewhere. The T5, on the other hand, is half the speed of the T7 (the fast portion of the T7). But the T5 will never slow down, no matter how much data you write to it. And the T5 will flirt with 450 GB/s, if you can feed it at that speed, and you can fill the entire drive, without rest, at that speed. Try that with the T7, and it will choke. I returned my T7. Cheers!

ExplainingComputers : Thank You Sir ! Your presentation regarding SSD (Solid State Drive) on their limited program/erase (P/E) cycles , the discussion on the life expectancy of SLC, eMLC , MLC , and TLC drives ! Plus you also cover ~ wear levelling , over provision , TBW (Terabytes written) , PWB (Petabytes written - Petabyte = 1,024 Terabytes ) , DWPD = drive writes per day (number of full SSD P/E every 24 hours) and most modern SSD's are able to withstand 100 Terabytes written or more , thereby lasting as long as the other parts for many years in an end-user PC ! *Yes , I now have learned how an SSD functions with the different terminology explained clearly ! Thanks Scarboro

I work in a data center and SSD failure rate is on par with the mechanical counterparts. I also have been using SSD's on my personal computer for quite a long time, never having one fail on me, I consider them just as realiable as any other mechanical hard drive.

@genericmale3907

7 жыл бұрын

Fernando Kreutz But a data center would be writing data wayyyyyy more than a general user would

@Vinz3ntR

7 жыл бұрын

rin weeb that's why he's talking about the mechanical counterparts, I assume he means of the ones used in the datacenter.

@bassbacke

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the SSD drives used in data centers are not the same type used at home (as reported in this video).

@Hy-jg8ow

7 жыл бұрын

Mine died pretty fast for unknown reasons.

@llothar68

7 жыл бұрын

I have two failed since 2012. I have a few WD HDD which failed on me too (one losing a huge 3TB pirate haul of the finest movies ever made). But i also lost power supply units and memory parts, even lost ethernet controllers on the mainboard to voltage spikes on the landline (in Thailand not in Europe).

I regret not discovering this channel earlier. Great in-depth explanation that you can trust

6 years old usage, zero problems, love the SSD

@wileymonair

3 жыл бұрын

I have a 6 year old ADATA SP550, it has been used and abused with gaming, large file transfers, and many hours of daily driving. MHDD report zero issues and read and write speeds are as advertised!

@sigmaswan2969

3 жыл бұрын

Noice

@NextGeneration9501

3 жыл бұрын

@@wileymonair How do you managed to use that long? I've bought a used one then the HDDSentinel came up with 9% health left with 655.4GB of lifetime writes. Mine's a TLC SSD. Can see that Windows is spitting out errors. Windows Store couldn't download apps even though I've reinstalled Windows 10 which is the latest 20H2 for ten times lol.

@hannazakiy9861

3 жыл бұрын

@@NextGeneration9501 what ssd? how many TBW it has on the first bought? how many GigaBytes you written on one day average? how long has been used?

@rootbrian4815

2 жыл бұрын

@@NextGeneration9501 Might be a windows issue. Other utilities that check SSD's would be designed for SSD's, not hard disk drives (HDD).

Wish I knew about the free space thing 7 years ago. I bought 4 60GB SSDs back when they first came out for like $200 each. Put them in a RAID 0 and kept them 90% full. They died in a year and a half.

@dutchmzfk8639

6 жыл бұрын

David Andersson Wred 7 years ago? For that price? Don’t think so..

@dutchmzfk8639

6 жыл бұрын

David Andersson Wred no need to be hostile. The comment was about 7 years ago. You should’ve made it clear that you were talking about the situation as of today.

@LifeIsGoooD123

6 жыл бұрын

David Andersson Wred idiot

@peterlamont647

6 жыл бұрын

He should also tell Amelia Erheart that she should have flown a leer jet instead of trying to fly that old propeller driven clunker...then she wouldn't have crashed! You see?!! All you have to do is travel to the future and get something better, and all your problems will be solved!

@dutchmzfk8639

6 жыл бұрын

David Andersson Wred apparently not. Seeing the amount of likes I got on my comments clearly indicate that more people agree with me. Have a nice day

Buying my SSD was the best thing i ever done. My three plus year laptop (I7, 16GB RAM) got a new lease on life when I upgraded to SSD (1TB), it really made the whole system blazing fast. In my opinion, definitely recommend switching to SSD, if you see your laptop/desktop becoming 'sluggish' after a few years.

@woodstockxx

Жыл бұрын

Aye..replacing an old, sluggish hard drive with an SSD usually does speed things up a bit..I’d be extremely disappointed if it didn’t..lol

Your explanation about solid state drive technology is spot-on. Your forum is suitable for viewers of all computer levels, from the novice to the advanced users. Your accent adds a personal touch.

This is the most informative and easiest to understand video on this subject on KZread. I've went through almost all the popular videos and this one is the best at being informative and easy to learn.

ExplainingComputers to start my Sunday morning? sounds like a good deal to me!

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Excellent. :)

@thecaptain2281

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Christopher, Thank you for making such excellent videos! Your presentation methodology and technique is very appealing and enjoyable!

@thecaptain2281

7 жыл бұрын

Seriously?

@ComputerLearning0

7 жыл бұрын

Some people just never grow up . . . and before anybody opens their mouth and tries to connect my KZread name with immaturity, this just happens to *BE* my name. Just because certain people would rather make it into something dirty is THEIR problem, not mine.

@thecaptain2281

7 жыл бұрын

Um, ok. Where did that come from? I don't see the problem with your name.

840 Evo 120 GB still working after 4 years :)

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Great drives the Samsung 840s -- Evo or Pro.

@Gorgen2k

7 жыл бұрын

My 128gb samsung 830 is still working after 3,5years and my pc is on 24/7

@Runenaldo

7 жыл бұрын

The same here for the 512GB pro version, Magician says drive condition is GOOD after a total of 20TB written.

@macdonalds1972

7 жыл бұрын

840 Evo were actually the worst, they have a "read performance bug" that can't get fixed with new firmware.

@Marsupilami420

7 жыл бұрын

Samsung pm810 256 - 7 years old 24/7 operation. Still going strong and reports 87% healthy.

Great information! The way you explain all these technologies and jargons so clearly, it makes it so easy for layman users. Love watching all your videos

Informative, swift and sweet gentleman explains SSDs throughly. 10/10 Content.

In my experience, HD quality and life expectancy can be loosely judged by the length of the warranty. In the old days you got a 5 year warranty because the drives were that good. I have such a HDD used as a backup, its more than 12 years old and still runs as new. When the companies began reducing the warranties, so went the life expectancy. Now its 1, 2 and 3 year warranties, 3 loosely representing the best you can buy, but also meaning to be ready to dump the drive right around that time. Its no surprise that Seagate is considered among the top and look, its got a 3 year warranty and a data recovery plan, too. To switch to SSD, i refuse to buy on short or no warranties, ive had too many flash cards fail in cameras and phones. Long warranty or forget it. Thats the measure of life expectancy as far as im concerned.

@rickytorres9089

2 жыл бұрын

Crazy that it's not hard to get a PSU that is rated for 12 YEARS and DDR4 modules for limited LIFE warranties. Yet as you said you'll have a hard time finding a drive with a warranty that goes beyond those numbers. If not have TBW disclaimers. Just as car manufacturers saying 10 years warranty OR 100k miles...

the voice feels like I am watching a 90s computer hardware show :) Nice videos btw :) I just clicked the subscribe button :)

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard! :)

@severdnerv

6 жыл бұрын

yeah he sounds like the way Carol Vorderman speaks. Spooky :o

@swlee9289

6 жыл бұрын

I loved old school lecture :)

@vladimirrodionov5391

6 жыл бұрын

He should be in those 80s how to connect you BBC micro to the bulletin board programms.

@abseiduk

6 жыл бұрын

And full of geeky terms just like the 90's

Thought I was back in school and about to be tested and I wasn't prepared. Great Job

This guy is so thorough!! Great in depth explanation. I appreciate it!

How wonderful to hear information from someone who is actually old enough to know what the H--- they are talking about! Regards sir!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

@mikaelgaiason688

5 жыл бұрын

I take it somebody has never heard of buildzoid over at actually hardcore overclocking.

Thank you for the "Don't Panic" message written in large, friendly letters. Your video put my mind at ease!

Finally, I find this! A clear answer on the subject. And explained very carefully with visual aids. Thank You, Mr. Intelligent PC Guru!

Excellent video - Just installed new 1 TB drives in my home PC's. After watching this I am keeping all my data on old spindle drives & the OS on the SSD. My data will never touch the cloud.

DON'T defragment SSDs either! They simply don't need defragmentation because they don't have spinning discs to read from, and doing so only causes more P/E cycles as the drive moves data around.

@paddan426

7 жыл бұрын

Agree, with a small "*". Defragmenting the file-system, not the files on an SSD is recommended, as fragmented file-system in itself will lower performance. Its only few GB in size to de-fragment normaly, so it doesn't wear much more then u do every day anyways, and u only need to do it after for ex a major reinstall (with lots of Windows updates), or once every 1-3 months, so its v small wear, for maximum performance. This is exactly what modern OS like Win 8/10 does automatically, and u can do it with 3:rd party software on Win 7/Vista/XP too.

@TotoGeenen

6 жыл бұрын

Most ssd's "defrag" themself, it is not the same but something like that it actually helps lifespan. This video explains it pretty well: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fG2Dyripp9ucpKQ.html

@mikaelgaiason688

5 жыл бұрын

Linux doesn't ever need defragged. Ever.

@jesuszamora6949

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikaelgaiason688 Bit of a myth, that. Any OS on a spinning disc will need defragging after enough time. You just don't have to do it quite as much in Linux. In either case, you shouldn't defrag on SSDs because of the whole random access thing. Making sure TRIM is working properly is important.

@mikaelgaiason688

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesuszamora6949 Sorry, but no. Linux uses a totally different file system. It's not a myth, it's a natural result of an intelligent design.

Nice, real information and not a load of usual 'toober blather ! I had not thought much about the benefits of keeping space for wear leveling,

Few years later and still useful information, thanks! Been wondering about my SSD (Samsung Pro series) and now I am more at ease.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Samsung Pro are very good drives. :)

Funny i have 3 backups of all my data my mate tease me." You don't need that many copies" Has anyone ever heard someone say ? " I wish I didn't have so many copies of my data" Probably not.

@aronchavez6788

3 жыл бұрын

Even at work and school, having backup of everything is important because anything can happend to your info

@jonathankovacs1809

3 жыл бұрын

3 backups is a good minimum I also recommend an off site backup if possible one only needs to look what happened to those poor people in Texas (Feb 2021) freezing temps then water pipes breaking plus power outs can wreak havoc on your computer and your data,,

@robertslugg8361

3 жыл бұрын

A file that isn't in 3 places doesn't exist

@Gemini5AU

3 жыл бұрын

So True. Then the question is asked.....have you ever lost anything? No! My only problem is keeping it organised. Accessible is one thing organised is something different. :)

John Lennon exlains computers? you've got my sub

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Welcome aboard. :)

@dadewd7061

5 жыл бұрын

ExplainingComputers Let it be... Let it be...

@fredpnk

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

@yukacatto4430

5 жыл бұрын

Omg 😂 such accurate comment

@KM1980Music

5 жыл бұрын

First time on this channel and I was about to comment the same thing!!! Hahaha!!!

This is a fantastic explanation. Definitely substantially increased my understanding of costs, performance and limitations. Thank you!

@ExplainingComputers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

This is the first time I've heard this... Thanks for making the complex understandable... And now I know more than when I woke up today.

I've been wanting to get digitally organized for some time now. I've only just discovered your channel so I'm behind but yes! I used to be the "Low disk space" guy and I'm still proving that trend on SSD's that I never had when I was younger. It was always throw aways from the school my dad worked at. So I grew up on no more than 80GB IDE HDD's. So this is the extra motivational boost to get stuff organized! Haha!

A Magnificent and very thoroughly explanation about SSD. The best I've seen so far. Simply brilliant. Thank you for posting such a great video

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. :)

Great, clear explanation that reminded me of BBC Micro Live from my childhood. Bravo.

as stated, straight forward, no annoying music or over active shouting and gestures. Just good, sound, how to do it videos. Exactly what I googled for. Many thanks.

This was a great educational video. Learnt many things, was getting worried about the life expectancy till you assured.

I dont know why there has been so many knockers for this highly informative, and well explained video on SSD drives. For a novice like myself, I learned a lot, a good video, ( even his pommy accent was quite ok, haha ) Thanks.

At last - a good explanation that inspires confidence! Thanks!

This noise/animation 5:53 takes me back to watching a learning video in a public school computer lab with headphones on.

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! YOU ARE A BASTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH BY THE PUBLIC! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!

i swear god.. buying my SSD was the best thing i ever done.. just do it.. buy it.. and believe me.. you will never gonna regret it

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@dadewd7061

5 жыл бұрын

Until it fails! Haha!

@BlackEpyon

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. System on SSD for loading speed, and data on RAID 1 HDDs for redundancy.

@DukeDudeston

5 жыл бұрын

I have an SSD in my PS4 for online gaming. Improves the load time drastically. PC.. not too bothered there has never been a time where during the 30-60 second boot up have I said "damn I wish this was faster" Most games I play on PC are large games and at the time the cost to GB ratio just made it an expensive option. 400GB SSD for £200+ 2TB HDD for

@stfuplsok

5 жыл бұрын

ABD KH *to god exactly.

Lovely informative video as always, Chris! You're good at what you do, keep at it! :) Oop, one thing! Typo @ 3:03!

@ExplainingComputers

7 жыл бұрын

Many thanks. :)

@Bowowowification

7 жыл бұрын

Mistake where he shows the green blocks of data being written to an SSD. Most SSDs take up less than half the space inside the metal enclosure. Watch more teardowns.

@nebtheweb8885

6 жыл бұрын

That was an analogy for how "wear leveling" evens out flash cell use. Not for what is inside the enclosure.

Extremely informative, practically useful and that hair! Chef's kiss of perfection over here folks - dont sleep on Explaining Computers EC!

This is a very informative video. I thank you for posting it. This has been a question of mine for some time now. I switched everything over to SSDs a couple of years ago for the speed, quiet and cool operation, ruggedness, and perceived reliability. I have not been disappointed. But, I was concerned about longevity. I back up everything to the cloud and to the old hard drives I removed which now are connected to the NAS via the router. Out of sight and earshot. I feel reassured these SSD drives will outlast the computer for which they provide service. Thank you.

I've had my STD for almost 10 years now.

@ffggddss

6 жыл бұрын

There are antibiotics for that, you know . . .

@arivchakraborty4629

6 жыл бұрын

See a specialist. I will pray for your recovery

@rb032682

6 жыл бұрын

Cryosurgery can help, occasionally. :-)

@ThomasNimmesgern

5 жыл бұрын

That's how NOT to use your stick.

@rb032682

5 жыл бұрын

@oåooåo ipip - These things don't get better by themselves.

Important point: SSDs "leak" over time (most consumer SSDs may only keep their data for a year or so on a shelf, though some enterprise versions may last 10 years or more). Therefore, SSDs should not be used for archive purposes, though if they are being used daily, the drive will keep the data intact by rewriting the fading memory.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct! :) Though note that data refresh is achieved via a read for an SSD (only HDDs need a rewrite).

@jamesedwards3923

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I still use Platter Drives for archiving data for long term. Life is always about trade-offs. I have a general rule that I partially or totally retire a drive after ten years. Unless it is designed to go the distance. Why, well most of my drives are platter. Mechanical failure is my primary concern. Even SSDs can fail. Even with COVID and Stagflation. Platter drives are still cheap. I try to buy laptop and cam drives. They are desgined for write cycles and endurances. If you buy typically three replacement drives over you life. Let us assume you start at 20. Well since most people are going to live to their mid seventies. Or if they are lucky 100 years. Calculating the relevant cost is easy. SSDs are safer to carry.

@danteerskine7678

9 ай бұрын

​@@jamesedwards3923platter drives sucks. It needs a single drop on the floor and it's gone for good. SSD drives are better and doesn't need any motor and requires to be plugged in yearly to conserve data integrity. I have a silicon power 32 gb micro SD card class 4 made in China, that I bought in 2012, it's slow in terms of writes but after nearly 12 yrs of use, it still works, while In the meantime, I have a graveyard of HDD on which I spent a lot of money for nothing, while I should have taken the SSD route. My data are still intact

I have the Samsung Evo 840 and 850, had them pretty much since they were released, and they have been sitting in my desktop machine that runs around the clock, very reliable but affordable drives. No issues at all, and they continue to function to this day.

Thank you! This is very informative. Worth every second watched!

The average score of this man's presentations is "Excellent"! Sharing valuable information for free like this shouldn't go underappreciated! 2.6M views and only 59K likes? I mean c'mon! Subscribed!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub, and welcome aboard! :)

I upgrade to Samsung SSD's in my laptops. Night and day difference. Everything faster, cooler temps, and hardly any noise. Good presentation 😎👍

I haven't seen you in ... forever... since you got sick. I am glad you are back, thank you again. Respectfully, NHG

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings Neil -- I have continued to be here every Sunday!

My first ssd is 8 years old, no errors whatsoever, still running. Fun fact : In 1991 a 20MB solid state drive (SSD) sold for $1,000.

Very Educational! Learned more here in less than 10 mins than a evening's worth of video and googling... Thanks! More Power to you , keep it up!

@Pradatoru

6 жыл бұрын

Leon O But this was a video :|

i want to say thank you very much for all your efforts, for all the things i learned watching your videos about technology. i really learned a lot about computers. you are a great teacher. you have my respect and admiration.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind feedback.

Very insightful. Especially the first 8 minutes, give you a clear know how of WHY ssds work the way they work. The rest, and whats important for you (Cost, Speed, Durability) varies per use and can be figured out from that know how.

From my experience, It's hit and miss with SSD's, I had a brand new SSD last 2 months with general use whereas the previous one lasted 5 years and still works today - I still use them and couldn't recommend them enough! Just remember to back up! My college lecturer used to say "You can't call it a backup until you have at least 3 copies in 3 different places

Keep up the good work!!! This was helpful in building my new pc.

I'm so glad I found this video after only just discovering this channel yesterday. This is probably the most useful tech video I've seen in a very long and couldn't have come at a better time as in a few weeks I will be upgrading / replacing my current SSD along with getting a laptop and making sure to get a SSD for that as well. Thanks for the information! BTW: I currently have a Crucial 128GB SDD [M4-CT128M4SSD2] that I've been using as my main drive since spring of 2012 and it still work great, but I only ever have 12-36 GB free at most.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have maintained about 10%+ free space on your 128GB drive, and what is sound practice. Good luck with your upgrade and laptop! :)

@Chaosxinc

5 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Thanks! Definitely keeping that in mind now with my new 256GB Intel PCIe SSD.

This is the only intellectual person that I highly respect in the field of digital technology on KZread.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your kind comment. :)

Very, very well explained and truly helpful video. Many, many thanks for helping me understand all those cryptic acronyms (or not exactly acronyms, such as NAND) and their actual significance for an average user as myself. Great presentation, many thanks again for that.

Just the kind of information KZread is there for thank you!

The opening music reminded me of Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters. Loved the retro ‘90s feel of the video!

Thanks for the explanation, especially the point about leaving at least 10% free. I'm constantly running my 250gb start up SSD to the limit, despite having a 1tb hdd for data inside my 27" iMac. I had no idea the harm I was doing to the SSD. Going to address this immediately. Namely putting my downloads and pictures folder in the hdd and keeping at least 50% free in the SSD.

Sir, your video presentation is very nice to watch. Congratulations on the editing, it is clear that proper care and attention to detail was taken. Very nice indeed! Thank you

@ExplainingComputers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind feedback, most appreciated. :)

All that's missing are 80's sound effects. Another subscriber (Y) you're like the 80's British version of Linus. (Y)

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! :)

Nice one dude very comprehensive and easy on the ear. keep up the good work

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

I really like how you explains everything! Thanks you. This is from 4 years ago and still relevant! Just installed my SSD with 512 Gb and made a partition with 150 Gb in it for W10. Now don't sound like a good plan. Gota expand that partition to the fully 512 GB cuz I really want it to last. Thanks for explaining this things so good!

I've been blessed with knowledge. I'm eager for getting a new laptop/pc just to enjoy those incredibly fast boot times :DD

Honestly this video had me really worried because I've been using a cheap SSD for windows for just under three years but then you talked about overprovisioning and I've been doing that just because I like having free space all this time, glad to know that my weird habits were actually in my benefit because I don't know what I'd do if my SSD died on me (I don't know how to recover windows and all of my lost data if that stuff dies with the SSD). Thank you for also explaining the different types and their expected P/E cycles, I gotta keep that in mind for the next time I go SSD shopping!

@kfl611

Жыл бұрын

Rule number one - if you don't back up your drive will fail and you will loose all your data. If you do back up all your data, your drive will never fail. It is always better to back up all your data, and the really important stuff, back up to a 2nd drive or blu ray disc or something and put that in a separate location like a bank security box, in case you have a home fire, flood, tornado etc. And let someone else know where it is, incase you fall down the stairs and break your neck, or die in a car crash - oh I sound so all doom and gloom ! But you get the point, back up, back up, back up - and let someone know your passwords and where the back ups are - even if they find out after you are no longer living. I read a story once where a man died and his wife and children were cleaning out the basement and almost threw out a box of bonds worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. They thought the box was full of old papers and trash - no one knew he had bonds worth anything in that box. If he had included a letter to be opened upon his death spelling it out, that would have been smart. There is also stories on the web, of a family buying a house and finding a metal box in the basement rafters - full of cash... no one knew it was there. The story never said if they returned it to the previous owners or if that was even possible, but some of the money was very rare and worth a lot more than the nomination printed on the bills. Always better to be safe than sorry. I didn't mean to preach.

@ItsJustGilly

Жыл бұрын

@@kfl611 You didn't mean to preach, yet you did. Thanks for the information, it was an interesting read!

I like this gentleman's presentations as they seem technically correct without going off the deep end. Some of his videos go pretty fast, so I slow them down with the playback rate setting since some important points whiz by without my fully comprehending. But then my poor aged brain seems to be running at a slower clock rate these days... LOL Been twiddling with homebrew computers since Altair but the changes just keep coming fast and furious - so it's nice to have someone lay out the latest greatest bit-wizardry in plain EE speak without the "fog" of marketing!

Great video. Very informative. When there are significant changes, it'd be great to update this video to reflect modern drives and technologies. Cheers

I built PCs from 1995 to 2010, but haven't built one in years. Figured it would make sense to do some catch-up research before I build one now... and came across this video. First time I have ever subscribed to anyone, beyond impressive that this man keeps on top of comments to his nearly 4 year old video. More power to you sir.

This is what I call elaborate and informative. Thank you for that. I'd just like to add from a companies' perspective, that SSDs do hold their risks, if you have a ton of throughput in your environment and I'm not talking about PCs and consumer hardware. We got like a couple of hundred TB of storage and a few hundred GB movement each day 5-7 days a week, so disregarding the cost factor difference (which is tremendous, btw), we rely heavily on writing and having drives needing replacement because you can't write anymore. on top of that: if an SSD dies, it just dies.. you don't have much warnings around it, which can be a showstopper. redundant, safe and distributed network file systems are the way to go for data centers, unless you got a really really good reason to use SSDs, take my advice: dont just put them everywhere. :D you can always split your storage pool smartly into SSDs and HDDs and even use SSDs for caching on some systems.

@alerey4363

4 жыл бұрын

thing is, in many devices/applications SSDs are almost the only choice; any time you need minimum battery consumption (mobile, remote unattendend monitoring devices, etc), shock resistance (rugged laptops, sports, etc) and light weight (same applications like the previous) you need to use SSD; also in real time critical systems you need your storage to respond as fast as the data is generated (sensors, computing algorythm, etc) so again, mechanical slow inertial hard drives are a no no; that pretty much leaves slow ,electromechanical, magnetic , bulky and power hungry drives to...data centers or some old SOHO server/pc for backups (with RAID of course)

I learned something from this guy today in leaving some free space in my ssd... and just clicked the subscribe button

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub. Welcome aboard! :)

I signed in to comment and thank you for the quality video! Your glasses match your face very well. subscribed and star wars quote "we will watch your career with great interest"

Your talks are rare things in these days of cacophony and flamboyance. Thank you Sir

I love this guy! reminds me childhood educational videos.

I bought my SSD back in 2014, and I'm still using it! SSDs are absolutely wonderful.

@aliminhas5981

2 жыл бұрын

Which one tho Also would u recommend the lexar

Excellent and informative presentation. Keep up the good work!

I know this is a 3 year old vid now, but a really good video to explain the in's & out's of lifespans of SSD drives. Thank you!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!