Benchmarks: Real-World Applications

The Windows 7 kick time examination is measured from the moment the Os loading screen appears to the fourth dimension the Windows desktop is fully loaded. All SSDs perform exceptionally well here and there is very little departure between them.

The Kingston SSDNow 5+ 180 64GB was the fastest upkeep SSD we tested, taking only 11.1 seconds to load Windows. The Intel X25-V 40GB took 2d place at 11.vii seconds. The SSDNow V+ 180 64GB was 17% faster than the SSDNow Five Series 64GB and twenty% faster than the OCZ Onyx 64GB.

For the application load examination, we launch the post-obit applications on Windows 7's startup: Internet Explorer, Outlook 2007, Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Discussion 2007 and Photoshop CS4. The test starts when the Windows 7 startup audio loads to the time the final application is loaded.

While the Kingston SSDNow 5+ 180 64GB loaded Windows 7 fastest, this wasn't the case when measuring multitasking performance. Nonetheless, with a completion time of just 5.7 seconds the SSDNow V+ 180 64GB was nonetheless very fast, and this appears to exist a standard fourth dimension for affordable SSDs.

This test measures the time it takes to launch Adobe Photoshop CS4 from the fourth dimension we click on the icon to the fourth dimension the program is completely loaded and fix to use. The Kingston SSDNow V+ 180 64GB took simply 2.2 seconds and again this appears to be a standard fourth dimension for affordable SSDs. This was roughly the aforementioned time gear up past the Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB and OCZ Onyx 64GB equally well.

The adjacent examination was performed by loading the last level of the StarCraft 2 single player campaign. The test began when the loading screen appeared and stopped once the "click to play" message appeared.

The Kingston SSDNow 5+ 180 64GB showed very stiff performance when loading Windows 7 and standard performance in multitasking and application loading, but its StarCraft II level loading performance is quite poor. The SSDNow V+ 180 64GB took roughly the aforementioned amount of time as the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB hard bulldoze making it 16% slower than the Kingston SSDNow V Serial 64GB.