youtube.com— Samsung demonstrates the difference in SSD(left) and HDD (right) Win XP boot times, using Fujitsu notebooks. Sweet! Now if we can only get that in a desktop!
Dec 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
"if we can only get that on a desktop"old. you can boot from a cf card on an ide adapter. failing that, plug your flash 2.5" drive into a desktop with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.buried as blindingly dull.
That would be an even more captivating video event to record than this one!Two computers turned on at the same time, at 10 hours in the video HDD computer shuts down, at 20 hours hours the SSD one. At 25 hours the video ends.
I really wish there was more info available about that test. The BIOS took longer to do its thing on the computer with hard drive (I'm assuming it's the one on the right) for some reason. The flash drive got to XP's login screen much more quickly, but it hung there for several seconds, while the hard drive went immediately from the login screen to the desktop.As for desktops, the solid state drive barely booted up faster than a laptop hard drive (and it's probably the slowest laptop drive they could find). Does it really stand a chance against a desktop drive?
Closed AccountDec 30, 2006
"if we can only get that on a desktop"old. you can boot from a cf card on an ide adapter. failing that, plug your flash 2.5" drive into a desktop with a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.buried as blindingly dull.
dreamlayersDec 30, 2006
The BIOS screen is probably delayed because the BIOS waits for the hard drive to spin up and maybe perform some diagnostics.
omghi2u2Dec 30, 2006
That would be an even more captivating video event to record than this one!Two computers turned on at the same time, at 10 hours in the video HDD computer shuts down, at 20 hours hours the SSD one. At 25 hours the video ends.
negativefxDec 30, 2006
those bars are known to be the definitive test of disk performance. oh wait, no.
Closed AccountDec 30, 2006
Ok, what's your problem? I'm not the one starting a fight. Blocking you.
psxerDec 30, 2006
I really wish there was more info available about that test. The BIOS took longer to do its thing on the computer with hard drive (I'm assuming it's the one on the right) for some reason. The flash drive got to XP's login screen much more quickly, but it hung there for several seconds, while the hard drive went immediately from the login screen to the desktop.As for desktops, the solid state drive barely booted up faster than a laptop hard drive (and it's probably the slowest laptop drive they could find). Does it really stand a chance against a desktop drive?
Closed AccountDec 30, 2006
sorry i just realised i phrased that wrong
d4700Dec 30, 2006
still slower booting then my 360
dumpydoobyMar 13, 2007
Jankos, don't be such a stupid ****.
mydaveAug 1, 2008
Is it faster? is there anyone who tested it?<a class="user" href="http://search.ashtech.info/Solid%20State%20Drive%20vs.%20HDD%20%20Windows%20XP">http://search.ashtech.info/Solid%20State%20Drive%2 ...</a>