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Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed

Posted by timothy on from the but-compared-to-the-old-one dept.

bigwophh writes "Despite the fact that Windows 7 is based on many of the same core elements as Vista, Microsoft claims it is a different sort of animal and that it should be looked at in a fresh, new light, especially in terms of performance. With that in mind, this article looks at how various types of disks perform under Windows 7, both the traditional platter-based variety and newer solid state disks. Disk performance between Vista and Win7 is compared using a hard drive and an SSD. SSD performance with and without TRIM enabled is tested. Application performance is also tested on a variety of drives. Looking at the performance data, it seems MS has succeeded in improving Windows 7 disk performance, particularly with regard to solid state drives."

4 of 248 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Finally, it's about as fast as XP was! by BikeHelmet · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For regular software, yes - but for operating systems and kernels, performance regressions are the exception rather than the rule, and Microsoft is almost always that exception.

  2. Re:Finally, it's about as fast as XP was! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Remove your blind rose-tinted open-source fanboy glasses and type that comment out again.

    Just because it's from Microsoft doesn't mean it's bad. Open-source is so fragmented these days you Linux zealots are to blame for operating systems being "set back" by half a decade. Pick a fucking window manager, kernel and source distribution and stick with it.

  3. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I fucked your great grandmother's dead body.

  4. Re:Linux already has this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Being that the world runs primarily on Windows for desktop PC's, nobody really gives a shit about Linux. Well, except for slashdud nerds. Keep on topic please.