Visiontek GoDrive 60GB and Racer Series 120GB SSD Review

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 Racer Series is a fast booting solid state drive, equaling the performance of the Wildfire 120GB at 22 seconds. The Visiontek GoDrive 60GB is a slower drive, weighing in at 24 seconds.

The Racer Series 120GB scores well, taking 19 seconds to complete the load. The GoDrive 60GB is a couple of seconds slower matching the Intel 510 120GB drive in this test.

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