G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD Review | ||
| by AkG | June 14, 2009 | ||
| XP Start Up / Adobe CS3 XP Start UpWhen it comes to hard drive performance there is one area that even the most oblivious user notices: how long it takes to load the Operating System. For our tests the clock starts as soon as the system “beeps!” and stops when our Anti-Virus splash screen disappears. While all the other tests were run with a streamlined XP image this particular image is the test bed's “day to day” OS and it has accumulated a lot of crud over the months from installs and removals. We chose the Anti-Virus splash screen as our finish line as it is the last program to be loaded on start up.  At 39 seconds this drive simply destroys the competition. Even its closest competition is 2 seconds slower and even the mighty X-25 is a massive 7 seconds slower! This is a significant difference and one that you WILL notice in the real world. If you are swapping over from spindle based drives to the Falcon….expect your world to be rocked…and rocked hard. ADOBE CS3 LOAD TIMEPhotoshop is a notoriously slow loading program under the best of circumstances, but when you add in a bunch of extra brushes and the such you get a really great torture test which can bring even the best of the best to their knees. Let’s see how our review unit faired in the Adobe crucible!  As with boot times, the Indilinx controller’s mixture of read and write performance makes it the undisputed champ of the Adobe Crucible of pain! Once again 2 seconds may not seem like a lot of difference but if you use Adobe as much as some people do….those two seconds will add up pretty quick.         | ||
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