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It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
The drive fluctuated in this test, between 22 and 23 seconds. Around 70% of the time, it was closer to 23 seconds, so we rounded it down to the closest second.
Good results in this test, averaging 19 seconds. Not up there with the fastest drives, but quick.
Nice drive, good price too
There are faster drives than this, but its quite good with both data times (compress/incompress).
I would stay away from 2281 controller drives.
Yeah I wouldnt touch sandforce 2281 after all the crap last year with Corsair Force and OCZ. best with Intel or one of these with the marvell controller. all dependable.