HDD vs. SSD - Acer Aspire Timeline 4810TG Comparison

German Hands-On of Acer Aspire Timeline 4810TG with Intel X25-M SSD (160 GByte). Booting sequence, windows reset, shut down progress. More notebook infos at http://www.notebookjournal.de - Vote and comment our video.

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[p1nex]

Why does everbody just ONLY makes such Start and Shutdown Tests with an SSD? Is that all in what the SSD is faster?

How about download something with 2mb/sec + wachtin a MKV HD+ Video File and decompressing 4Gb Rar or Winzip Archive.

Such a Test would be interesting...

[FXerGerFra]

@p1nex

Also Photoshop startup and Image Processing, Video encoding, Saving of large Files, etc.

[AutoIt96]

Ubuntu 10.04 + dualcore 2x2.1 4GB Ram HDD:

Up: 30 sec.

down: 10 sec.

Windows Vista:

Up: 75 sec.

Down 45 sec.

I think thats all^^

[urbinax]

@p1nex or gaming

[deathcoder]

@p1nex mmmm go back to technical school :)

downloading something??? you can have a supercomputer for all you care connected to a 56k modem and the download speed won't be better.

watching a MKV 1080p movie will make your hard drive yawn if you're expecting to stress the disk, it won't my Wifi can stream 1080p :P

decompressing a 4GB rar is more of a processor intensive task than a disk task, however, writing-wise any ssd can blow away a mechanical disk. ur post is not a good test example

[iRBigN00B]

@p1nex This is the easiest way to demonstrate the difference between the two in a video. If you want to see things like read/writes and all kinds of intensive testing you should be looking at a review from a reputable site. In the situation you describe an SSD would be far superior even more so, as it can read and write in multiple areas and doesn't rely on the needle.

[kurokamei]

i own a 4820tg. the start up is normal i think(not slow enough to annoy me) but the shut down rate is very slow.... it always ask me to force shut down although i dont run any heavy program..... even on a fresh factory recovery, which i remove all the useless free software.... anyone face the same problem like mine?

[ARealWiseGuys]

Wow only about 20 seconds difference cold booting. Helpful video, thanks! On my side my Netbook comes out of hibernation mode in about 5 seconds with a 5200 rpm hard drive (4 GIG Ready Boot). I only boot it once a week or so to remove any sludge, that take 2 min or so. I'm building a HT-PC and am considering getting a small SSD as the boot drive. From what I have read, many SSD's actually use more power than a Hard Drive. Any Ideas folks?

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[rafael44p]

@p1nex I will do this for you iff you buy me an SSD :P

[safiqureshi1]

one word amazing

[InductiveSoul]

@p1nex

SSD is for read and write times not decompression, video editing or watching movies, all you listed above would not tax even a 5200 RPM disk drive. Solid state drives are to make programs that need data read or wrote fast. It helps all programs boot faster but once there running and have all there data in ram, a ssd has no impact at that point. So your 4GB rar is now bogged down by your CPU's performance and your Memory. Your download with a SSD, you would not notice a change at all.

[paszag]

HDD hat längere Lebensdauer. Denn bei einer SSD sind die Blöcke nur begrenzt beschreibbar, d.h. für die Auslagerrungsdatei oder Datenspeicherrung ist dies ungeigenet.