Hewlett Packard Pavilion DM1Z Fusion Ultraportable Review

The Hewlett Packard DM1Z is an inexpensive machine and the inclusion of a high quality 320GB Western Digital Scorpio drive is as good as we could expect.

KitGuru editorial staff have all adapted to using Solid State Drives over the last year and we decided to perform a little surgery ourselves, by removing the Scorpio drive and refitting the machine with a 256GB ADATA S599 Solid State Drive – we reviewed this last week over here. We used Acronis Drive Image 2010 to clone the drive.

How much would it really affect overall performance?

(Hewlett Packard DM1Z – left: Scorpio mechanical drive. right: ADATA 256GB SSD).

The differences are substantial, and easily noticeable real world. We can see that read speeds have improved from 77 MB/s to 246MB/s and write speeds from 90 MB/s to 185 MB/s. The 4K and 4K QD32 test results aren't even in the same ball park.

The Solid State Drive has totally transformed the system performance, reducing boot times from 65 seconds to 23 seconds. Even the waking from hibernation time is halved.

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