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

Windows XP pro boots in 5 seconds with SSD (Solid State Drive) Patriot 32 GB.
Note (August 21 2009): I have tested the same drive with Windows7 it gave great performance and no delay in page file writing or reading. It was a significant slow in win xp when you download and copy files at the same time.

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[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.

[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.

[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)

[sehsah]

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

[sangolt88]

SSD is so fast.

[Liteloo]

Because it has no self-confidence! :D

[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)

[MichaelYoshiFan]

@dickkwikkwek

win vista and 7 sucks win Xp rule.

[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.

[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.

[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]

@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.