Windows 7 BETA vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD Performance Compared

jmke · 19th January 2009, 15:45

The topic of SSDs itself is rather interesting, but when you team up the increasingly popular flash memory technology with Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, things move up to the next notch on the excitement level - for us around here, anyway - but probably you too, if you are reading this.

We have gotten hold of the Windows 7 BETA and today we are going to compare the performance of single SSD as well as RAID 0 SSD in W7 and Vista SP1. Keep in mind this is just a first look; Microsoft may still and probably will provide further performance optimizations for SSDs under the final shipping version of W7 and this is merely a look at the performance difference so far. We didn't even install any new drivers on our W7 beta install - just ran with what was built-in, so it is a good raw look at things currently as they stand.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/17...red/index.html

19th January 2009, 16:13

Hm, no file copy or real world program tests, just HD Tune. : /

jmke · 19th January 2009, 16:17

those benchmarks are indeed no good to show any possible advances;
Anandtech method to manually time file copies while doing other tasks would be the best approach

19th January 2009, 15:45	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Windows 7 BETA vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD Performance Compared The topic of SSDs itself is rather interesting, but when you team up the increasingly popular flash memory technology with Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, things move up to the next notch on the excitement level - for us around here, anyway - but probably you too, if you are reading this. We have gotten hold of the Windows 7 BETA and today we are going to compare the performance of single SSD as well as RAID 0 SSD in W7 and Vista SP1. Keep in mind this is just a first look; Microsoft may still and probably will provide further performance optimizations for SSDs under the final shipping version of W7 and this is merely a look at the performance difference so far. We didn't even install any new drivers on our W7 beta install - just ran with what was built-in, so it is a good raw look at things currently as they stand. http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/17...red/index.html __________________

19th January 2009, 16:17	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	those benchmarks are indeed no good to show any possible advances; Anandtech method to manually time file copies while doing other tasks would be the best approach __________________

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19th January 2009, 16:13	#2
Kougar Posts: n/a	Hm, no file copy or real world program tests, just HD Tune. : /