Patriot SSD Boot time with win XP Pro and windows 7 Ultimate

[MichaelYoshiFan]

your have Windows XP with no sp2/3 installed

[quietriotish]

ssd has no motor movements , that is why it is fast to run but it is very costly as of now compared to the hdd as of now, when it gets cheaper it will slowly replace hdd.

[testdirver]

damm my kingsotn its a piece of shit.... without count the post boot in 19secs without GUI in W7 and after i update the firmware now just write at 90mb/s (before 150mb/s)

[sehsah]

Do not buy it. Cashing and page write speed are not that great on Winodws7 I have used mine in another laptop to boot up fast just for the internet use only. If you will use it for downloading or use a heavy application like Photoshop .. I advice not to use SSD. Bottom line fast boot not great performance with read write and cashing.

[OriginalMergatroid]

@sehsah

I'm getting amazing performance from a Patriot Inferno 60Gb SSD in Windows 7 Pro 64. It is beating out a 2Tb raid using 4 x 500Mb drives. Average read 248.2 MB/s. Did you make sure to enable TRIM and use the newer Intel V9.6.0.1014 AHCI controller driver? Also, I would not recommend these drives for daily use myself. The more you write to them, the faster they wear. Leaving the drive about 1/2 empty will increase longevity because of lots of empty space for wear leveling.

[OriginalMergatroid]

@sehsah

I have installed the Inferno as just a system drive with about 30G of free space. I have another hard drive I use for applications and games, as well as downloading. I would recommend leaving your swap file (page file) and temporary browser files on the SSD. It's true this will cause the drive to wear faster, but hey, that's what drives are for right? Leaving those files on a regular hard drive will slow performance, and we bought the SSD to increase performance right?

[OriginalMergatroid]

If I owned a newer laptop I would still stick with a real 2.5" hard drive. You have no worries about performance as you fill up a hard drive, and none about the longevity of the drive. With a desktop, however, you can greatly improve system function speed and browsing by using the SSD as your boot drive and a real hard drive for your games and apps except the browsers. Go ahead and put them on the SSD. A little extra wear for a better browsing experience is fine with me.

[SOF006]

What are the specs in your Toshiba Laptop? Im getting a 32GB OCZ SSD soon and I think ive got a similar Toshiba Laptop to you.

[rfsent5]

I counted 7 seconds, but still that's very fast. I count from first display of windows xp to the main screen because anything before that is the BIOS loading.

[Nightmare0021]

I think you did a fresh install of windows xp and then recorded this video. Is that right? If it is, then the boot time would increase after the instalation of software.

[xXEduBuntuXx]

a test with ubuntu 10.04 would be great .

and where is windows 7?

[Mantua64]

Watch my 3 year old Dell do the same with Win XP and Kingston SSD in 5 seconds!

[mx518logitech]

i use a ocz vertex ssd 30GB and the speed is amazing. for data: 500GB 2.5inches HDD 5.400 rpm. But this is all you need. Win7 Startup in 38 sec(incl. Bios-Boot)

[sehsah]

I agree, but the SSD still mazing for many reasons, such: power consuming, low heating, stability, fast access. But bad in File R/W, Paging, swap files etc. I still use it even with Windows7.

[epyx88]

I call that a 16-second boot. The BIOS screen disappears at 0:04, and the hourglass goes away at 0:20. You can't just work with the appearance of the taskbar as the OS hasn't loaded properly at that point.

[rfsent5]

@epyx88, And you'd be wrong to do so. It doesn't start "booting" until it starts loading from HD and displays "windows xp". He's counting the speed of loading windows from the SSD, not what the BIOS is doing before. You could put an SSD 100 times faster and that prestage would be exactly the same. Also with an SSD that fast, it wouldn't take long to load "properly". Instead of 7 seconds, figure 9 to 10 worst case.

[AndrewDaniele87]

SSD is definitely the future, so I'll wait until they're the standard, that way I pay standard pricing :)

[KillerMars1]

To say professional when boot you need 64 bit version of windows not 32 bit

[levymetal]

And all applications load twice as fast, then they can open their files twice as fast (important if you work with large files), storing data is twice as fast etc. If you don't like it don't buy one :)

[asylumseeker07]

why doesnt my xp pro say professional when booting :-(

[Liteloo]

Because it has no self-confidence! :D

[policeman1313]

cause it's not XP pro?

[asylumseeker07]

yeh im pretty sure it was but i upgraded it to win 7 pro so its all good

[ayoyok]

do you have proffessional with minimum sp2 installed?

[asylumseeker07]

windows xp pro sp3 :-( im sure it used to say it but oh well

[davidetsonskate]

because it is service pack 2 or more probably

[Zw00lt3]

Because you have SP2 or later ;)

[rfsent5]

@asylumseeker07, because MS removed the "professional" on future updates. This person doesn't have those updates.

[hkseo100]

its not even with service pack 2.

[sangolt88]

SSD is so fast.

[hcitecnarf]

Wow I am buying one of these to boot off of...

[dickkwikkwek]

xp sucks, vista and 7 rule.

[MichaelYoshiFan]

@dickkwikkwek

win vista and 7 sucks win Xp rule.

[sehsah]

I have tested the same SSD with Windows7 and it seems to function much better in matter of Page write processing. If you are DB or Graphic design with heavy files that will be a nice thing to have in future (Windows 7 + SSD)

[MSWindows30]

Windows XP was not designed for SSD. Windows 7 is the first OS to support SSD. Windows 8 will have an improved support for SSD. Currently SSD is very expensive but I love it's performance and it's lightweight.

[OriginalMergatroid]

@MSWindows30

Windows XP does not natively support AHCI nor TRIM. You may have to image your data and completely rewrite the drive once a year to keep your performance up. However, XP will work fine with an SSD.

[friik100]

Hmm...

I Have Normal HDD an it's same fast You can see my video. No I don't spam... Just want You see my video and see it uses HDD :)

[bm13245]

It took at least 21 seconds to get into windows. Not very impressive.

[bm13245]

And that is with a clean installation of XP. Use Vista for 6 months then come back with a boot time.

[ericblr]

Sheeeit give vista 6 DAYS then see how it gos! :-)

[sehsah]

the actual booting time was 6 seconds in the windows log file. watch other video about SSD technology. :)

[frsv0678]

eh... it took at least 21 sek

[KakarottoCL]

jesus!