We created another .BAT file to open 26 different photos spread across 2 different folders. 18 of the images were of a 14 Megapixel .jpg specification, whereas the remaining 8 were Windows 7's sample images. This represents a real world scenario of simultaneously opening the snaps obtained during a short holiday or day out.
Once again, we repeated the test 7 times and, to reduce the performance differentials due to measurement errors, rounded the stopwatch value to the nearest second.
Performance between the SSD-based systems is much closer once the work load has decreased. Our time measurement method wasn't accurate enough to record a convincing and unambiguous difference between the SSD-touting contenders.
A hard drive's performance is easily surpassed, yet again. For this test, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12's performance deficit is 75%.