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Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed
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."
Is is fast enough to get first post?
(Sarcasm guys)
This information is irrelevant to many of us; for a frame of reference, how does HD performance on 7 compare with XP?
Even more importantly, in the particular frame of reference, where XP is moving at a velocity of 38.5% c relative to Windows 7, with a time of passing of 92.3% relative to XP, do these calculations add up?
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Which one is going east?
...because the benchmark is still running :)
The most likely scenario for seeing its effect would be... starting up a game, exiting, then starting the same game over again.
Ah, I see you've been playing Empire too!
All intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes.
Wow, what an incredibly cutting bit of satire you just produced there...flipping Microsoft's own words like that! You should write for a paper or something, but to be honest with a pen as sharp as yours I doubt any of the Big Corporations (tm) would allow it, the thought of an intellect as mighty as yours on the loose, giving ideas to our mindless sheep population, would surely chill them to the bone.
I wonder if these performance gains also come at the price of an increased likelihood of disk corruption when the power suddenly cuts out?
Nah, I don't think you can use ext4 as a file system for WIndows.
Build 7000 (beta) was notably faster and slimmer than Build 7100 (RC) when we tried it here - 7000 was highly responsive and usable in 512MB, 7100 thrashes and is slow in 1GB. We were horrified. So forget 7000's admirable speed - it appears the RC was compiled with -fsuck-like-a-dyson-on-steroids enabled.
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Does windows still abandon file-copying operations when one single file out of a huge directory structure one is trying to copy from one volume to another fails?
This always annoyed me. I would fantasise about paying for my microsoft products thusly "£200? No problem. Here's the first penny, here's the second penny, here's the third penny, Ooops! I dropped the third penny! Well, that is the transaction completed, goodbye."
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