It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.
Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) onto the drive and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install Avast! free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.
Again, some impressive scores for the Kingston V+200, even though it is hitting last place in our roundup today these results would be barely noticeable in the ‘real world.'
They dropped the ball on pricing with that one. needs to be £260.
shame about price, ideal to replace my aging 500GB drive for storage in my machine,. but samsung one is much better price as Henry says