Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 28, 2009 @04:52PM 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."

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But will installing Windows 7... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-28 17:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...fix Slashdot's RSS feed so it doesn't give links that go to the utterly terrible AJAX version of Slashdot even when I've explicitly opted out of such bullshit?