When I build my next PC in 2023 as a retirement project, I'll be getting one of these to put the OS on it.

@paranoidrodent

3 жыл бұрын

I've had the 1TB model in my system as the boot drive for the past year. It's great. I got a second just recently to the PC I'm building my son for Xmas. By 2023, you might have PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 options. It should serve you well.

@gutierrezaguilarianalberto4186

3 жыл бұрын

I'mma wait and see this one, chief

@internetuser2261

3 жыл бұрын

I think there'll be faster technologies in 2023 than this. Just a guess though

@alileevil

3 жыл бұрын

With the current prices and the shortage of PC components, I might have to put off my build to 2023.

@kornweed

2 жыл бұрын

Less than 2 years away

I have been watching your videos for around a year now. I have learned so much from them. Thank you and keep up the good work!

The first computer I ever bought, back in 1989, had two 80MB SCSI hard-drives. They were about $1,000 each. In 1989 money. This drive could transfer the entire contents of both of those drives combined in 0.0235 seconds. And, adjusting for inflation, it costs less than one twentieth as much. And stores over three thousand times more data! Ain't technology grand! Wow! What an amazing piece of hardware this is!!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Love the calculations!

@alveolate

5 жыл бұрын

kryder's law > moore's law

@istvankovasznai

5 жыл бұрын

Technology marches on!

@bradleypeate3266

5 жыл бұрын

turtle to a bullet train ? :D

@xmchillin

5 жыл бұрын

Speaking of Apples...my first computer was an Apple32e (32K) and I upgraded the memory to 64K...and played Frogger till the cows came home...

Dude, your storage videos are my absolute favorite! This video definitely did not disappoint. Great work!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

brilliant video again, showing just how far computing has come over the years, somethings you just don't notice and some utterly amaze you for me it was switching to SSD from hard drives from waiting 1.5 minutes to around 6 seconds on startup that is still something that makes me smile to this day , its almost as good as waking up realising its Sunday which means another great video will arrive shortly from you

7 dislikes, from viewers currently storing their data on punched paper tape.

@peterjansen4826

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, storing data on tapes is a real thing. Look up tape drive, some people still use it because it is incredibly reliable (and expensive).

@MarkTheMorose

6 жыл бұрын

Tape made from paper, with punched holes in it, though?

@Wibblium

6 жыл бұрын

For long term data storage/archiving it's common to use magnetic tape reels, not punch cards. Google for one does this.

@peterjansen4826

6 жыл бұрын

Some regular users use magnetic tapes too. For example Jeremy from PCPerspective. They like the reliability of it. Fortunately punch cards haven't been used for many decades. I don't know exactly how much data you could store on it but kilobytes would be a lot for punch-cards. Also I wouldn't like a computer which is about as large as my living room and which has an extremely high power consumption. Those computes used vacuum tubes instead of transistors, ExplainingComputers showed one of those old computers, if you search for ENIAC then you can read a lot of interesting information about it. In short: those computers were mainly developed for the armies to do a lot of calculations.

@breebw

6 жыл бұрын

"punched paper tape". Luxury. I'm still using IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149)

Brilliant. Every video so far is a learning curve. Thank you

Dude you are the best!! I love how in depth all of your guides are, as well as the information you provide. Channel is a goldmine

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I used to have two Velociraptors in RAID 0. I was always the first to be ready to play in online games. They were amazing for the time. I just upgraded to a Samsung 970 EVO from an 860 EVO and even that jump is unbelievable. Great video. Thanks!

Incredible how fast these are! Great video!

Excellent work as always. I really appreciate your methodical approach and straightforward dialogue. I always feel informed after watching one of your videos! Thanks, Chris!

Great video Chris - It's clear, concise and professional as always. I liked when you added the Raptor drive for comparison - I remember these were amazing drives for the time.

I was literally in the middle of explaining m.2 tech to a friend piecing out a new build when I got the notification for this video. Checkmate. I told him there's no point in upgrading anything if you're sticking with the SATA platform. Thanks for this!

I am thankful for your quick explanation of NVMe. Like some other individuals, I am slowly catching up with newer storage technologies and your video has helped better understand the newer storage options. Thanks again for the wonderful work you do on KZread.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I thought that including the explanation near the start was important.

@L.Scott_Music

6 жыл бұрын

Just be careful when shopping for M.2 SSDs. Some motherboards have M.2 slots that are only SATA. Some have a pair of M.2 where only one is NVMe. Sometimes I see a great price and get excited only to see the M.2 SSD I'm looking at is only SATA and not an NVMe drive. Sometimes it's easy to miss. Be sure to match everything up.

One of the coolest thing I have noticed is how clean all of your old devices appear. I'm a new subscriber and loving it! I wonder if you already have a video on how you clean your devices and what tips and tricks you recommend. Really excited to explore your videos and learn more about my computer and how to one day understand as much as I can to be able to successfully build my own.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

I spend a lot of time chasing/removing dust, especially in close-up shots. Sometimes I use BluTak to remove dust. Often a cotton cloth or gloves, sometimes a dust blower (I have an electrical computer one).

FYI/trivia: the WD Raptor and VelociRaptor drives were basically WD's attempt to take enterprise-grade storage and sell it to enthusiast consumers. The Raptor series were full 3.5" drives with 3.5" platters spinning at 10K RPM - basically the same as a SAS or SCSI 10K hard drive but with a SATA controller slapped on so it can be used in a "standard" PC. The VelociRaptors on the other hand were actually 2.5" 10K hard drives. In the server market, 2.5" drives typically are 15mm thick, whereas consumer laptop 2.5" drives top out around 9.5mm (and today are as thin as 5mm). WD took the 2.5" 15mm enterprise drives, again added a SATA controller, then mounted it on a 2.5" to 3.5" converter made out of a heatsink, known as the "Ice Pack". This was to address the fact that the 10K enterprise drives generate more heat, but would now be used in consumer PCs which may not have the same airflow and cooling characteristics as a loud rackmount server. (You could easily remove the 2.5" drive from the heatsink, although you had to break a warranty sticker, and use the drive in a laptop if that laptop supported 15mm thick drives - but this was almost asking for overheating!) The 3.5" Raptors like the one you showed actually only existed in 36, 72 and 150GB variants (and there was a special 150GB Raptor X that had a transparent cover so you can see the drive mechanism working!). The VelociRaptor series was available in many more capacities: 80, 150, 160, 250. 300, 450, 500, 600, and 1000GB. (WD also sold VelociRaptors without the heatsink/adapter for direct use in server environments as a cheaper, SATA alternative to more expensive SAS drives.)

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. I have every model of the 3.5 inch Raptor around somewhere, aside from the one with the window. And several of the 2.5 inch "sled mounted" drives. Great tech with a lot of metal!

@tonkatoytruck

5 жыл бұрын

I have a couple of Raptors laying around. Windows has gotten so bloated, I can not even fit an OS on them any more.

@kingneutron1

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonkatoytruck Try Linux. I can usually fit everything I need into a 20GB root filesystem with separate ~15GB /home

I don't think your methodology was necessarily wrong for the read vs. write test. SSDs and especially NVMe SSDs are better at writing than at reading. This is because the flash translation layer inside the SSD that maps the logical sectors to actual flash sectors uses a log filesystem or essentially a type of linked list. This makes writes of new data a simple append operation requiring little work. Reading is more complex in that the device has to read from various tables and scan lists of sectors to decide which ones have the data for the given file (or rather logical sectors). This inevitably requires more CPU and memory within the SSD so ends up being a little slower. Also, when writing the SSD can let the main system know that it has accepted data even though it is still being cached in RAM on the SSD. IT can do this because the SSD has a set of bulk capacitors that will allow it to continue to run in the case of an unexpected power off and allow the data to be written to Flash. When you have a small number of concurrent writes this can make writing seem an awful lot faster. Obviously this is a great over-simplification but hopefully explains the test results somewhat.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Very useful post, thanks for sharing. :)

@nickwallette6201

5 жыл бұрын

When the entire copy process takes 2 and a half seconds, any lag introduced is significant from the OS doing things like starting processes, allocating RAM or preparing a cache, building the copy dialog box, tending to other threads.... The results are likely to be a little bit different with transfers that take longer. Although you could fill the entire drive in around 2 minutes, if it can keep up those speeds. (Probably not from a RAM disk though! :-D)

@MGHXXD

5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap too lazy to read ur comment

Thanks again. 2 years later and I’m just now getting ready to install one in my tower. Cheers

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck! :)

Clear, concise and distraction free. Again, many thanks for another great video mate!

Interresting especially the speed test. Thank you.

Sunday with explaining computers.informative video as always sir.👍

I built my PC with the 256gb version of that NVMe drive just over 6 months ago as the boot drive, and so far its been excellent...still super quick to boot and load programs ....Damn I remember when sas drives were the fastest thing around, I remember saying to a friend you'll never beat my raid sas drives ....then he bought an SSD...took me all of 2 mins to decide to get one as well....I wonder whats coming next ???? Really like your simple no BS approach to hardware reviews.

EC, by far one of the better, maybe best presentations i've seen. Quite well explained without an excess of techno bable yet sufficient tech info. Thanks.

I've used WD Black HDDs for over a decade, never a problem experienced, this is a fine line of WD products. So far I've read great review of the WD Black SSD line and look foward to trying one out. Thanks for the excellent video.

I really enjoy your videos. This one in particular was particularly informative to me. I have been pretty out of the loop on modern storage technology since it's been 6 years since I built my PC, so I didn't really know anything about NVME technology. Just a couple days ago I upgraded my system from a 128GB SSD+1TB hard disk to a 2tb crucial mx500 SATA drive. Surely it's not as speedy as the drive in this video, but It's been a nice upgrade for me. Thanks for the informative video!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

I find 2TB on an SSD amazing! :) Enjoy your new storage.

This was so clearly explained. Thank you

Thank you for the video! I've been using that same drive with my Linux Mint installation for a while now and couldn't be happier.

Thanks to Chris' thorough review, I now have 2 of these drives and absolutely love them!

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

They are such nice drives.

Excellent explanation of how technology has changed. I remember in 1984 buying a 20 MB 5 1/4" hard drive, note, 20 MB, not GB, and it cost £500 + VAT! It was installed in a Ferranti Luggable computer which was about the size of a small suitcase.

I worked on this product implementing the NVME standard before leaving the company. Our original demo (pre-NVME) was to play all 10 seasons of Stargate SG1 (every episode) at the same time on a great big wall of video screens from a single PCIe device. It was back in 2009/2010. We still only were at about 50% capacity. We actually struggled to find a compelling demo back then that would actually tax the drive. Fun times developing hardware and software.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear this. Thanks for sharing your experience here. Love the Stargate SG1 thing! :)

@Physics_

2 жыл бұрын

Hey shinigami lee..... I have a question....can M.2 sata interface support nvme ssd M.2?

It feels like I went back in time to learn about current technology. Very nostalgic. Very well done!

Good Job Chris..... Precise, clear and to the point...

I know this is from 2018 but wait! RAMDISK!??? I've never seen any other reviewer do this. This is an amazing concept and a clear apples to apples read/write comparison with no bottlenecks. how is that even the most famous reviewers in 2020 struggle to review drives without a tool like this? You just blew my mind. Congrats to the video and methodology!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. With a drive of this speed, a RAM Disk seems a very sensible way to test. :)

@rafaelparedes1937

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers just one more thing. Do you clean the ram before each testing?

@FirstnameLastname-py3bc

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelparedes1937 RAMdisk takes ram space, makes it appear that RAM full for OS

There is no words for the speed transition from the computers we had to now... The only problem is there is no time left for a sip of tea or coffee lol. Great Job.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

So true. All those little gaps in our day to take a breather are being eroded by new tech . . .

@MrRasZee

4 жыл бұрын

yeah in the old days you turned on your computer then went and made you a coffee

I installed it yesterday on my laptop and it's night and day compare to a regular HDD

Another great video. Very informative. Thank you.

Fascinating, I actually laughed out loud in happiness! Thanks for sharing knowledge!

my normal lenguaje is spanish, but you video have an good explication for this ssd, good video men!

I enjoy your explanations, they are very helpful to me. I happen to be subbed and noticed that your up to 357 kay viewers, and would like to say congrats. But man if this is the only computer you own with a m2 slot, you got to step up lol. Your a great online personality, but geez man, just do it. Maybe we should all send you a bit here and a bit there and see what you put together????

Clear and straightforward. Very helpful to me!

I subscribed because you don't do advertising and you don't yell or have any loud annoying and distracting music. Your English is understandable, and that is not always the case with British folks.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub. And you are right -- no sponsored messages, yelling or background music here! :)

WD has always been great for me. I literally ,to this day ,still have a 120 gig WD Caviar drive that has been in near continuous use since the start of 2003 when it was purchased. Yes its data is backed up ,but I love to marvel just how much this drive has been through and it still keeps going. Sadly ,or amazingly ,its run may end next computer upgrade not due to drive failure ,but due to technology out pacing.

ExplainingComputers : WOW !!! The incredible difference for test results of the WD Black NVMe SSD ( Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s] and the Transcend x400 SATA ( Read [MB/s] Write [MB/s] ) shown on your chart is mind boggling indeed ! Great learning video once again , Thanks Scarboro !

Great video. Thanks for putting in the work.

Chris, thanks for putting out this video, I am a bit behind on the technology so this was a huge help in understanding. My how things have changed. The thing that impresses me the most beyond the speed is the idea that the number 1 bottleneck in most systems can be vastly improved, this comes with a price however as Wind 10 is the only system to handle this and you have to be able to have the hardware to handle it. Thank you again my friend! Rich

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rich. Note the comment below about this working fine in somebody's Linux Mint system . . . :)

@peterjansen4826

6 жыл бұрын

Indeed, put a SSD in and old computer, reinstall Windows (or install Linux) and the computer is fine again! It is unbelievable how many people throw away perfectly fine computers because of their slow hard drive and Windows which can't handle a lot of installed and uninstalled software without getting slower. Don't get me wrong, a faster CPU, faster RAM, a better graphics card...it all helps but the storage medium is indeed a big bottleneck.

@MrMoonpie001

6 жыл бұрын

Good time to make some money doing this process and reselling computers. Rich

@peterjansen4826

6 жыл бұрын

Something which I forgot to mention, NVMe works in any Linux system, there is nothing special about that. It is the same thing as a SATA SSD but with a much higher bandwidth because it is directly connected to a PCIe-slot instead of having to go to the CPU via the PCIe-lane via the SATA-controller.

Fascinating .. I am planning to build my own computer .. some time next year using perfectly good desktop with good working fan etc .. but a not very nice sales man sold it to me without mentioning vista xp was on the way out .. but as a Hoarder I have lots of bits & an extra hd screen .. Even as an older person starting out late in life I am keen & excited .. but this will be next new years project .. bye keep up the good work ..

That was very clear and so well delivered. I now know what m.2 nvme drive I'll be putting into my new build thank you.

Excellent video! I love the comparisons - and the video is well presented and thought out. Subscribed!

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub. Welcome aboard!

Definitely hitting the like on this one , I do anyway on your videos. I'm still on a SATA Kingston 240 GB SSD , and wouldn't consider running the OS on a HDD again , so I can imagine my jaw dropping if I had one of those drives. Big thumbs up mate , thanks for another cool video.

@DJRYGAR1

6 жыл бұрын

there is little real world difference between ssd and nvme. I have both (including the one from video). I moved my system from ssd to nvme and was really disappointed. No difference. There is big difference between hdd and flash tho.

@kognak6640

6 жыл бұрын

Sata and nmve SSDs are very similar in pure 4k random reads and writes(btw HDDs are 100 times slower, huge difference). Sure, nvme runs away with high queue depth and parallel disk operations but that's not beneficial in desktop applications in single user environment. However servers are completely different story. Also high linear speeds are nice if you transfer large files back and forward but again it's not typical for desktops. That's why nvme ssds are not big leap from sata ssds in desktop use.

@DJRYGAR1

6 жыл бұрын

my impression is that OS interferes a lot when copying large number of files (all the ownership checking and such - done on per-file basis), this is how it looks like (behaves differently when copying via windows shell, total commander or under linux) well, at least this WD has 500GB (for moderate price), that is more future proof that older 240, so I am not complaining.

Christopher, you have shattered my misconception that these little cards are under-powered laptop fodder. Guess what my next build will be based upon! Thank you Sir!!

Quality video as always. Look forward to your content every Sunday morning with breakfast. I've been using WD drives since the 80's. Remember MFM and RLL? Still using WD to this day.

Hi, your channel keeps me current with tech. Thanks from Orlando

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Greetings back from Nottingham, UK! :)

@MicrobyteAlan

6 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe WD is still around let alone leading the field so many years later.

Nice use of blutak, the IT engineer's friend ! Great video, thank you.

Amazing and brilliant! 🏆 So, start blushing again Chris, you have every right to! 😊 I have one of NVMe in my laptop, the speed is unbelievable amazing. But to see as numbers in parallel tests is even more exciting! Can't wait for next video! Thank you Chris!

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Elvira. :)

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, please don’t be discouraged by few ignorant people. I have no idea who would give a thumb down on such a clear, comprehensive video. Throughly enjoyed and learned from you. Thank you

I have this in my build. I couldn't be happier.

Gosh...! This makes me feel like Methuselah. I remember the pride a local company felt when I installed the (then) largest hard drive in our county into their Novell server. It was a whopping 80meg SCSI and took up two device bays. My how quickly the times have changed. Most of the skills that made me valuable are now either obsolete (like knowing the appropriate pin-out for a null modem or even simple serial cables) or done by everyone, including preteens....

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

I think experience won in the older days of computing still very much matters . . .

I think I've used WD drives in nearly every PC build I've made. They work, I trust them and that's about it haha! I remember when the WD velociraptor launched all those years ago and the price of it was brutal.... but so was the speed of it! I loved seeing the test vids and the data transfer rate!

@gyrgrls

Жыл бұрын

But this specifically relates to SSD's

Very informative and excellent explanation !!

enjoyed your video. thanks for sharing . great info.

What I like about this youtube blogger is that it´s British. Thanks

"How things have changed across time". I remember an 80MB HDD from 1980, you couldn't fit two in a standard shoe box, weighed around 10 lbs, and cost $1000's of dollars.

Very informative, thank you.

Thanks for this Chris, that’s amazing performance!

This is where the Moore's Law rubber meets the read/road write/road. So cool! TY!

@JackPassmore

4 жыл бұрын

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, thank you for the like, your channel is par excellence. You humble me.

Very informative review, thanks. If I were to fit one of these devices to my PC would all my friends all envy me? Envy me, get it? I'll get my coat.....................

@R.-.

6 жыл бұрын

It's SATA funny, but don't flash in your coat.

that was very informative! thank you

Chris, since it wasn't available from ExplainingComputers merchandise, I custom made a shirt. It has an m.2 NVMe drive in the center surrounded by the words "NVME is for me!!!" I could only do this with your explanation so thank you VERY much.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Great idea for a shirt! I must expand the merch range. :)

Seriously love you and your channel. When you went back to western digital raptor drives I lost my shit. I used to have two of them in raid when I was very poor and much younger. I thought I was the shit. Both failed towards end of warrenty and since I had the small capacity 36.6 gigs i believe WD sent me two replacements of the 74 gig drives because they had no stock of the smaller capacity. Western Digital has always been my favorite brand of hard drives and I am happy to see them get a solid footing in the m.2 format. Been using samsung past 5 years on ssds but next build will be exclusively m.2 and preferably WD.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

I too had a machine with two 36GB Raptors and thought it was the most amazing thing ever! :) Happy days. I feel a lot less emotional connection to the hardware these days.

@SirHackaL0t.

6 жыл бұрын

WD drives always seem to fail way before they should.

Are you considering the cache? If I select a file to copy and wait a bit before I paste the speed is faster. Like copying from my data drive to HDD it does it instantly.

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

I was very careful in my testing to ensure that cache was not impacting the results.

@ricky_pigeon

6 жыл бұрын

The cache will only increase the speed at first and then drop to it's normal speed if it had any effect, looks like it's seen with the hard drive benchmark, but you don't see it with the SSDs, probably because they are already running at their maximum speeds, The 3GB file size will negate that anyway. A cache is added to increase speed so i don't understand why it should not be taken into effect. You could have 2 HDD drives, 7200RPM for example and only difference between them could be a bad cache and a good one. I'd take the one with the good cache anytime.

Wow I just found out your video suggested by KZread. And that WD Black drive you've been talking about is actually made in my current company at Batu Kawan, Penang, Malaysia. This is just mind blowing. I feel kinda proud of my own company lol.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

This is great to hear. It is a very good product.

@nialltehdee-jhong5739

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks sir. Besides M.2 products, the company still produces CSS 2.5 (Brahma, Venus, Nike, WD models) and ESS 2.5 (Odyssey, Pegasus, Omaha, Aspen, Voyager models).

I think Chris's editing skills have improved. This was kind of slick as we were switching between tests. Smooth.

I'd love to see some benchmarks on an "old faithful" Seagate ST-225 LOL!

When I win on the Lottery I know what to get now for my super computer. When?. Anyhow thanks for some very useful information on upgrading computers.

excellent review - thank you.

What a great video! I had no idea they were that much faster. I've been looking at NVMe drives but I need to also purchase a NVMe to PCIe adapter since my motherboard isn't quite up to date (3-1/2 years old)

I had no idea that there are m.2 slots which support sata and NVMe SSDs. good to know!

@shadowpath38

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah what he didn't point out is that you have to be careful what type you get as some mobos sockets have 2 notches so it makes it impossible to fit an nvme in it, tbh getting a sata is like buying a skoda when you could have a ferrari.

I'm one of those guys who started from DOS (with Norton Commander) and Windows 3.0, and I have had a ton of problems with HDDs during these 25 or so years. The ones that really emptied my pockets back in those years were the Seagates (a brand name I cannot stand to hear anymore). The ones that never ever failed me were the WD HDDs. I'm on year 8 on my WD Blue 500GB and WD Black 2TB drives which still run Windows Vista and Windows 7 for me just great (hope I don't jinx myself now). But recently I decided to move to SSD for Win7, maybe even to a M.2 NVMe. Yet the problem is that I have a 2010 or 2011 Sabertooth X58 motherboard, which recently failed once for unknown reasons, then got "repaired", and now sometimes freezes until rebooted (I don't know why...). However, it doesn't have a port for M.2. Is it possible to do that for my system? The motherboard is on BIOS and, as far as I know, doesn't have that UEFI.

@qwertymcqwert8076

5 жыл бұрын

STILL using the same 750 gb and 450gb WD black hds for over ten years now.Been using WDs for over 25 years now and never had one fail.I usually outgrow them.Just bought the WD Black NVMe SSD 250 for my new C:/drive win10 install.

Wow, nice video Chris. Thanks for posting.

it is certainly a great piece of kit and certainly a must have with some amazing speeds, i mean really very remarkable, i would not have been aware of its existence until i came across this video and thought mmm whats this, so, thank you for this tech review, very much appreciated.

since u made alot of ssds videos, would you make a video benchmarking between WD black and Samsung Pro ?

@YeOldeKamikaze

5 жыл бұрын

This! Please!

My first computer had a 30MB hard drive and used to take about 4 minutes to load MSDos 3.1. I call that a massive inprouvement!

@bryanst.martin7134

5 жыл бұрын

My first computer was a Sinclair. Followed by a C64 with cassette tape storage. And of all the other computers since, I have built all but two.

@markteague8889

5 жыл бұрын

My first computer was a C64 without any form of secondary storage. LOL Chose to wait until the prices on the 1541 drive dropped from $600 to about $240 and just saved the money that would have been spent on a cassette data drive. Left it powered on for several days after typing in source listings from Compute Gazette more than once during that time frame. :P

@BobSmith-dk8nw

5 жыл бұрын

The first micro computer I programmed was a Tandy Model I with a cassette drive for storage, running TRSDOS.(~1981-82) The First computer I owned was a Lobo Max 80 that had 8" single sided, single density drives but I bought a case I put 2 half height 5.25" floppies and a 5 Megabyte, Full Height 5.25" Hard Drive in, running CP/M 2.2 & 3.0 as well as LDOS. (~1983) The first computer I used to write something on - was an S-100 bus Z80 system running CP/M (~1980) The First computer I wrote a program for school on was a main frame or mini - possibly a Cyber but I think that was the next semester. The program was written on punch cards. The next semester the computer had a Terminal and I could just type my program in. (~1980-1981). The first modem I had that I connected to the school computer with was a 300 Baud DC Hayes (which it took me 15 hours to find out it did not understand lower case ...) .

@randydowell3902

5 жыл бұрын

Carlos Eduardo Foltran ditto. I remember that was so intriguing with her that I had late nights with her. Tough to go to work. I even had HP tech come to my home and switched out the mother board. He said he had never done a residential job before. Can you imagine that?

Another superb video Chris, but darn it I didn't realise I had an M. 2 slot on my board, recently bought a Corsair mx 500 sata 2.5 inch, yeh my pc boots in 20 secs now instead of 3 mins, wished I'd checked M. 2 drives out first. Next time maybe. Thanks again.

Such an amazing Review, Great Job!

Yep, once you go SSD, even if it is ‘just’ SATA SSD there is no going back. At work we are lucky enough to have a good 90% of machines with SSD’s fitted. If I come across one of the few that still has a spinner (as we call them) it feels soooo, slow. I’m getting a new machine at the end of this year and hopefully there will be room in the budget for an NVMe equipped model.

Amazing to see the Velociraptor getting beat so bad lol, but imagine a few more years from now, thats had bad the NVMe will be beaten lol

WOW real IMPRESSIVE thanks Chris ! it,s llike comparing the long ships to the SR 71

Great video dude learned a lot. Thanx

Somewhat off-topic, and not meant to really slam WD, but I had a lot of nightmares back in the day with failed WD drives. I got a lot of them replaced under warranty where they were purchased (in a system), and a few that I had to pay for myself, but at the time (back when Win 98/2000/ME were hot operating systems), I swore off paying for any WD products. If they were in a system I bought, so be it, but I refused to spec their drives, and if replacing one at my cost, I went with the competition. I know that not only WD, but all HDD and SSD manufacturers have come a long way with their products. Going forward, I might consider WD drives again, but I sure had a run of bad luck with them many years ago.

@joesterling4299

5 жыл бұрын

I will back that anecdotal evidence with my own. Back in the days of 20-40GB hard drives, I had several WDs go bad on me. The last one was the 40GB system drive in my Dell Dimension 8100 (circa 2001), which at least had the decency to fail slowly enough for me to image it to an 80GB drive, and swap it. That one is WD as well, and still working. (Just booted my old PC recently, when I replaced the batteries in my UPS. It still has the USB connection and software to the UPS.)

3GB isnt really big enough, at full theoretical speed it would take less than 1 second to complete, so the speed of windows intitating the read takes longer than the actual transfer. Great video as always though.

Very nice and informative video.. thankyou Sir

EXCELLENT VIDEO. THANKS FOR USEFUL INFO.

Chris, Windows 7 will work just fine with NVME if you install two updates: KB2990941 and KB3087873. These aren't available on normal Windows Update, but need to be downloaded separately from Microsoft. I would also advise to install SSD manufacturer's NVME driver over Microsoft's generic one for best performance. Now about my personal NVME experience. I've only recently switched to an NVME SSD (Samsing Evo 960 500 GB) in my main rig. It's an old beast, based on an i7 2600k, so I had to use a PCI-E adapter and some BIOS modding to get it to boot from a PCI-E card. Speed is only ~1700 MB/s due to PCI-E 2.0 limitations. In real life, NVME doesn't feel much faster than my old SATA SSD to me. Maybe that's because my OS installation is close to 10 years old (Windows 7, installed in 2009 or so).

@ExplainingComputers

6 жыл бұрын

Totally accepted -- I said that there is no native NVMe support in Windows 7. And I did not want to disturb a critical install for testing purposes only.

Storage devices facinate me in a way other computer components dont

always wondered what the difference was between the types of ssd, thanks for a interesting and informative video

Thanks for the video really enjoyed it and will certainly consider WD NVMe for my next build (currently using WD 2.5" SATA SSD). But it goes to show how far behind the curve I am that I was impressed with the old drive SATA M.2 speeds! Thanks!

Молодец! Hello from Russia!

What PC (CPU, motherboard, RAM) did you use? I've heard latest Intel chipsets have some issues not enabling good speeds on M.2 slot. Anyone knows more about this? I have a bit older computer, H97 4th series Gigabyte board, I7 4770, 8GB DDR3. Would this drive come even remotely close to the speeds in this video on my machine?

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

The board is a Gigabyte H170 DS3H with an i7 CPU. I very much doubt you will get this performance on an H97 motherboard as it has a very early NVMe implementation. Remember, M.2 is not an interface standard, it a physical connector that can support many different interfaces (eg SATA and different PCIe implementations, such as NVMe).

My first SSD was a 16 GB Mtron that could barely hold Windows XP. This was never a problem. The acces times were mind blowing. I am looking to upgrade from an Intel 160GB SSD to an NVME type SSD. It will require a big upgrade of basically my whole system. Your videos have been instrumental in guiding the way. Thanks for the great content! Liked and subscribed, dear sir!

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the sub! :)

Oh Wow ! Very insightful & inspiring , hoping to get one soon ( as of 2020 they're around $ 80 usd / 500 Gb ). Heard also the lifespan is equal to a regular HDD ( & I've got HDD's 8+ yrs old ), the deal being to ALWAYS backup the NVMe's , when they go , they're GONE for good. Thanks Chris , appreciate your instruction .