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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.
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."
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.