Solid State Drive vs. Hard Drive Boot Comparison

In this EDGE Tech Connect video we compare the boot up speed of a laptop computer with a SSD Solid State Drive and a traditional spinning hard drive. The drives were exact mirrors of each other and placed in the same laptop. We used the software that comes bundled with the EDGE SSD upgrade kit to create a mirror of the existing hard drive. For more information about EDGE's SSD upgrade kit visit: http://www.edgetechcorp.com/storage/solid-state-drive-upgrade.asp

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Science & Technology

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• ssd
• solid state drive
• hard drive

[Meedamon]

well if an ssd loads internet explorer faster, i'll just stick with my hdd!

[edgetechcorp]

@Meedamon I'm with you. Did you see that IE went below 50% market share for the first time in history this week?

[edgetechcorp]

@edgetechcorp IE and most Microsoft products are great tests for the speed of an SSD. If it can load those beasts quickly image what it can do with Chrome.

[think41c]

@mikey1029384 My Commodore 64 boots up instantaneously...

[oOBNOo]

Lol internet explorer.

[mikajoakkinen1]

this is only useful if you have an old pc with a few MB of ram DDR or DIMM, loading times shortens tremendously.

[TheEnde124]

I want SSD!

[Shawnbfromsd]

@Mr91Nissan240sx lolol they are exact mirrors of each other... if there are registry errors then they both are having to deal with them

[jimbob12gauge]

@mikey1029384 only because it has a bare bones, stripped down operating system that can run a fraction of the hardware and software supported under windows... good luck trying to do something like play Crysis on a crapple computer... if you want an OS for general/game support get windows, if you want a functional OS that keeps things simple get Linux. I have yet to find a single thing that mac OSx can do that neither of those can...

[Mr91Nissan240sx]

the computer on the left has too many registry errors, no way it should take that long for windows to load on startup, especially XP

[joshgura]

the xp loading bar never goes more than 7 times in any machine i have had. the computer on the left needs to be freshly installed. of course it is going to boot slow if its full of spyware and prefetch.

[iAmirx]

Main problem of a first-world country inhabitant; Windows loads to slow.