Benchmarks: Existent-World Applications

The Windows 7 boot time exam is measured from the moment the Os loading screen appears to the time the Windows desktop is fully loaded. Equally you can see all SSDs perform exceptionally well here and in that location is very little difference between them.

That was until we tested the Samsung 470 256GB which loaded Windows vii nigh xviii% faster than the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB. The effect makes the Samsung 470 Serial 256GB the fastest SSD we have tested here.

For the application load test nosotros prepare to launch the post-obit applications into the Windows 7 startup: Internet Explorer, Outlook 2007, Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Discussion 2007 and Photoshop CS4. The exam starts when the Windows 7 startup sound loads to the time the concluding application is loaded.

The Samsung 470 Series 256GB was likewise very fast hither despite beingness slightly slower than the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro 100GB. With a load time of simply 5.2 seconds it was faster than the bulk of SSDs and just half a second slower than the OCZ drive.

This examination measures the fourth dimension it takes to launch Adobe Photoshop CS4 from the time we click on the icon to the time the program is completely loaded and ready to use. On an average budget SSD this takes roughly two seconds and the Samsung 470 Serial 256GB was most able to halve this taking ~1.2 seconds. This is roughly the same operation we saw from the Crucial C300 bulldoze.

The side by side batch of results was recorded when loading the last level from the single campaign in StarCraft II. The test begins the second the load screen appears and stopped one time the "click to play" message appears.

Using a 3.v" desktop hard bulldoze the game takes around 24 seconds to load this level. The Samsung 470 Series 256GB was 34.ane% faster than the difficult drive, topping the chart and beating the Crucial drive by 2 seconds.