
We compare a typical Solid State Disk (OCZ Agility 60GB) against a high end consumer Hard Disk (Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB) with some tedious everyday tasks. As a product reviewer, Ive quite a lot of software installed, including Windows XP mode, ~100 portable applications in a folder on the SSD and this PC has been in use for almost 4 months since installing the OS. Pause the initial info screens for PC specs, preparation and other info. We compare/show the following: - Windows 7 boot-up - Launching 14 applications - Launching 3 apps in XP Mode - Upgrading OpenOffice 3.1 to 3.2 - Extract ZIP (3914 files/365MB) - Installing 5 Windows Updates - Disk Fragmentation - A Gatso Speed Camera The Hard Disk is a clone of the SSD using the Linux DD_Resuce utility. This Hard Disk was then tweaked by resizing the OS partition to 100GB to assist defragmentation, place data in the fast outer area and reduce seek time. I then carried out a deep optimise with IObit Smart Defrag. No other partitions were added. The tasks were manually carried out by hand (ie no scripts), with a video camera recording bootup & application launches. CamStudio captured the other tests for a better picture, with its temp & output paths pointed to the 2TB data HDD. The Gigabyte EnergySaver feature was disabled. I disabled the Antivirus for the OpenOffice installation and ZIP extraction tests for both drives, as Nod32 is sluggish scanning when writing executable files and the ZIP archive contained some <b>...</b>
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