WD Black NVMe SSD

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers comm this time we're going to take a look at this the latest WD black nvme SSD which has been kinda supplied to review by Western Digital now if you're a fan of this channel you know I'm really into SSDs have made lots of videos about SSDs and I've also been using Western Digital hard drives in my build for over 20 years so when Western Digital got in touch and said do you want to look at our lay sister WD black nvme SSD I said of course I do that's very exciting and so what I'm going to do in the video is to tell you a bit about nvme SSDs and then of course we'll look at the specs of this particular product we'll put this in the PC we'll do some performance tests and then finally I want to think about what this tells us a bit more broadly about the development of storage technology right here we have our WD black nvme SSD which we can see from the picture on the front isn't MDOT to drive and to explain what this means we should note that SSDs are currently manufactured in one of three physical form factors firstly we have traditional tuner half inch drives that connect very cable to the computer's motherboard secondly we have ended up two drives that plug into an m2 slot and finally we have PCIe card SSDs that plug into a standard pci-e slot now while modern SSDs come in one of three physical form factors and may communicate electrically with the rest of the computer using one of two different interface standards the first is SATA which is used on most two and a half inch drives and is limited to a transfer speed of 600 megabytes a second this is far below the speed of modern SSD technology and so an SSD only interface called NV and E or non-volatile memory Express has been introduced this connects SSDs by PCIe with the fastest drives currently available claiming a transfer speed of up to 3500 megabytes a second nvme is used on all new PCIe card SSDs as well as on the latest two two-and-a-half inch drives and docked to SSDs also come with either a SATA or an MV and the interface and so we're turning to a WD black nvme SSD you can see that what we have here is an MDOT to drive with the fastest available interface and the capacity of this drivers you can see is 500 gigabytes although it was also 250 gigabyte on one terabyte versions available and the claimed read speed here is 2400 megabytes a second which is over five and a half times faster when a comparable Sattar join so hopefully you are now fully up-to-date on what this technology actually is so let's get inside the box let's bring in the Stanley the knife to help us out and I think we get it around the back here just over there I can get in hopefully under there we are we can get in and flick it round or is it exciting I do like SSD technologies you'll know it's been watching this channel for a while and you must hand these things with a care with a good sort of static grounding which I've got here and you can you can see the drive there let's get the thing out to look at it properly handling it very carefully we'll take it down and put it down just stir there and I feel I should just take a second to marvel at this device this is not the first MDOT to drive either Odra had in my possession but it is the highest capacity and by far the fastest III do find these things extraordinary this is only about seven 1/2 grams in weight and yes has got 500 gigabyte capacity it could be a terabyte capacity and the price of your wandering is about 166 pounds 199 dollars 99 in the US that's in July 2018 and as I've said already of theoretical transfer speed is three thousand four hundred megabytes a second read and two thousand five hundred megabytes a second right so anyway this is an amazing little device and I think it's now high time to take it put it in a PC and see how it performs right have a test in this video I'm going to be using this PC which is my render box which normally sits under my desk rendering 3d animation and as you may remember about 18 months ago I fitted it with an i7 processor in the gigabyte h1 70d s3h motherboard and the reason I dragged this box out to do these tests is because it's the only PC I own with an MDOT 2 slot which were supported nvme Drive and it's also a PCIe gen3 x 4 slot which means it's got the performance to demonstrate the maximum performance with the WD black nvme drive we'll get to test now as you can see the m dot 2 slot is currently occupied and it's occupied with a transcend 1/2 8 gigabyte SSD this is an m2 SSD but it's a SATA interface so this will be a lot slower than the Western Digital black drive we're about to fit so we will do some comparative tests of course but right now I want to switch this out for the WD black drive so I'll start off doing that it's a bit difficult to get in and do this without my fingers getting completely in your way so I'll flick into high speed as I take this thing out and we'll now slot in the WD black drive there we are into the slot there so simple to fit a EUR and not to drive you've got no work cabling to worry about and power cabling and Drive mounting it is tricky to a slot than there it is and hopefully I can have just getting the screw which will go in there and there we are we've now got what do we do black drive fitted into our PC you so here we are with a Windows 10 desktop my render box normally runs Windows 7 but by default Windows 7 doesn't support nvme drives so I've done a temple install of Windows 10 and I've also installed a piece of software here called a crystal disk mark which you can use for benchmarking drives and as you can see it selected the drive which is our WD Blacka m vm e drive formats 2 4 6 6 gigabytes formatted and this will basically test the thing out and you can select how many times it'll run all its different tests together an average I've said that two three well default of 5 yes so don't we don't a hammer the drive too much so I'll start this thing off and it'll do various read/write tests so I'll click all it'll take it a second but we'll start it off and there we are it's finished and these are really spectacular results I should just say that the you've got various different sets of results here the first row of results in crystal disk mark is basically copying large file to the to or from wood drive and then below attests right lots of tiny files using lots of different cues and the process of thredson all teh nasty to try and sort of simulate more real-world performance actually running programs but the top things here that ones I I tend to focus on because these are showing you what happens when you're reading and writing knowledge amounts of data to a drive and the remarkable thing here is that the read speed of a 3447 megabytes a second he's actually faster than the three thousand four hundred megabytes as I can claimed my Western Digital on the box which user extraordinary and the right speaking of two thousand five hundred and thirty eight megabytes a second is amazing and just to give you a feel of how fast that is let's bring up the scores I got when I run this test on the transcend SSD that was previously in this machine that remember is a satyr end up to SSD and you can see the differences remarkable we've got a six point one times faster read and at seven point seven five times faster right which miss we've got to remember we transcend drivers a little bit older than this so if I've gotten to a few cycles but even so these are remarkable I think if you want a a demonstration of just why you go for an nvme drive this makes that so clear it really is extraordinarily faster that said I've never been too keen on just using benchmark programs to do tests so now I want to do one of my own test reading and writing to the same two drives so here I am back again and what I've done now is to set up a ram disk on this machine there it is I've used the soft perfect Ram disk program I'll give you a link to that in the video description and that's allowed me to set up a drive a here which will clearly be very very fast even faster than the WD black nvme SSD and so I can use this to do a a test which what we constraint my we're either writing formal or copying - if you see what I make anyway I've got three gigabytes of test files sitting there in the RAM Drive I'm going to copy those files and go down here to a paste them across to do initially a write test of the nvme SSD but I thought to be interesting to do this in parallel with the same thing on the the transcend SSD we were using which shows us that this sort of performance you'd get from a SATA Drive so I'll set this thing up I then bring up on screen everything so we've got the two side-by-side we'll have a little race under here we go and there we are by Jove that was fast as that Ken Dodd would have said what two point four seconds to copy that three gigabytes at 3.0 two gigabytes of files across which gives us a right speed for the double G black nvme SSD of a 1289 megabytes a second that I will take as the real-world score you get if you're copying lots of files around and it compares to what - twelve point six seconds for the 'saturday we're using the transcend Drive here just as a benchmark for in general a SATA SSD we should swap 250 megabytes a second so about 5.1 times faster opting for Thea W black nvme Drive so that that's amazing isn't it really shows if you speed is what matters to you getting an nvme Drive like the double D black really is worth doing now I guess we should also run this test the other way round so I'll set that up and here we all have switched things around we'll do the read test we'll press the button together as last time and there we are again a slightly strange result there I've actually got the reeds be being slightly less than the right speed with double D black two point six eight seconds correct two point four and compared to seven point two eight seconds for there that the satyr baster transcend drive I guess this really is proving flaws in my methodology here at the starting and stopping process probably is is a limitation there but even so we're getting again well over a thousand megabytes a second transfers be compared to about a 425 for the satyr based Drive but however we look at this the WD black nvme SSD is incredibly fast now as I said at the start of the video I'd been fitting Western Digital drives into pcs for a great many years and having just witnessed the extraordinary performance of this he double D black nvme SSD I thought to be fascinating to compare this with what was for many years the highest performance drive you could put into a PC and that was one of these a Western Digital the Lhasa Raptor also marked it as at Western Digital Raptor and this is a 10,000 rpm between a half inch hard drive these initially came in capacities of 36 figure bytes or 74 gigabytes and it's a really meaty really weighty driver but can't really get across the sheer bulk and quality of this drive on video but these were were at the time the the best drive you could you could fit from some back 2003 onwards he wanted the best performance driving a PC you fitted a velociraptor and therefore I thought what I do now is to connect this thing up and we could see how things have changed across time how we have you know that the best time you can put your PC the highest performance drive from Western Digital world one of these it's now one of these let's see how they compare in performance test so I'm back again to compare the alderman new and as you can see I've run the crystal dis mark using the Velociraptor drive and the difference in speeds between that and the double D black ebony SSD if we printed up is remarkable isn't it just shows how much faster computers have got in the past few years because these figures here for Velociraptor this was the fastest you could do for her drive in a V I've seen PC in in a gaming PC not that many years ago we've really has remarkable change in computing for between the hardest technology and what we've now got with the nvme and dot two drives so I thought we should just do the attest to looking at the copying so we'll bring those er up I set everything up as before and we'll take our or three gig of data and copy it and then bring everything up to have ever seen side by sides we'll bring back a copy for the nvme SSD and we'll do this pace this is of course a right test and clearly we know that the Velociraptor is going to lose it's just a question of how badly loses isn't it but it's it'll take a little while I think we'll it speed through this and there we are it's finished we won't embarrass Velociraptor by citing the figures that that still wasn't bad for copying three gigabytes of data even in that many years ago but there we are we've had a little reflection on how drive technology has changed over time as we've seen in this video the latest WD black nvme SSD from Western Digital is a really fast storage device and I've been fascinated to see that not just in the context of a device itself but also in comparison to previous cutting-edge storage technologies but now that's it for another video if you enjoyed what you seen here please press star to like button if you haven't subscribed please subscribe and I hope to talk to you again very soon [Music] you

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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 22 2018