Corsair P64 64GB SSD Review

XP Start Up

When 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.


Will this showing certainly is not bad at all. It seems the real world challenge of loading XP is negated in a large part by that extra large cache. The P64 still may not be as fast as the Indilinx SSDs but it certainly gives them a run for their money. It really looks like synthetic benchmarks aren't the Samsung controller's forté.

Adobe CS3 Load Time

Photoshop 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!


Once again, any perceived failings highlighted by the various synthetic tests are not as pervasive (or as compelling) when dealing with real world challenges. As we saw in the OS load times, Indilinx may have won this round but the Corsair drive stuck clock to their heels throughout.