SSD Testing

This past month we have set up two high-performance computers, both equipped with a SDD drive Intel X25 80GB M-series, along with a traditional two-disc teras. As I said a few weeks ago in another entry, which aim is to combine the speed of data access from the new generation of SSD, along with the good price of mechanical disks.

In both cases the result could not be more positive. The system speedup could tell a lot. What I call speed of use, that is what it feels like to use the PC in real programs, not synthetic benchmarks, up a lot. The Windows 7 were spending less than 20 seconds to load. Programs so lazy when to start, like OpenOffice, Corel Drawn, Photoshop, instantly tore just click the program icon.

The synthetic tests we returned speeds access this disk with values more than twice those of the mechanical hard drive. But as I said, this time the reality was that the tests improve.

It so happened that these two teams assemble and next we had two with a processor and memory are very similar, but equipped with two mounted mechanical hard drives in Raid 0. And even with the aid of the raid, were able to approximate what these SSDs do on the PC. And of course, do not even want to think that can be achieved with two SSD drives in raid …

Yesterday I was talking to a customer who took one of these teams and was still amazed at the speed at which you can now work. It was planning to put a disc similar in your laptop, because as he says, now when I take the laptop, I get the feeling back ten years ago. And then there was struck by the silence of the system. Here the SSD works well, because the mechanical hard drive is accessed less than before and fewer are heard popping the disc.