OCZ Agility EX 60GB 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.


As expected this drive eats the rest of the competition for breakfast. At this point in the review this came as no surprise, but what is interesting, is that these numbers are not even better than they are. We have to wonder if the 60GB vs. 120GB (or 64GB vs. 128GB) size is once again “hobbling” the Agility’s performance. In any case it still is easily the fastest at start up times we have ever seen.

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 this drive kicks major butt in real world tests. Hopefully, one day OCZ will release a 120GB version of this beast so we can get an even more “apples to apples” comparison.