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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 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives 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 AVG 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.
Only 1 second slower than the Vertex 3 240GB drives with this test, hardly noticeable and a great result.
Running this test multiple times we were able to mirror similar results, scoring the same as the Vertex 3 and Adata S511 drives – 18 seconds. The MAX IOPS managed a 1 second improvement with this test, barely noticeable, but repeatable.
£380, thats a really good price. The 120gb sounds good to me. Any ideas of the release date? this week or after computex?
this is certainly going to kill the vertex 2, which I would guess is intentional.
110 for a 60gb. that would be a wonderful boot drive and size.
Under £400 for a 240GB, is this the first time for one of the latest 2281 powered drives? I think thats quite an achievement.
120gb would be my next purchase, but I might go for vertex 3. not sure yet.
SSDS make such a difference. I added a cheap 40GB SSD to my machine recently (intel) and it really has transformed it.
I thought 40GB would be ok, but its honestly a pain in the ass. I have to keep installed programs to D drive and sometimes I forget as it autopmatically stores to program files.
Need an upgrade. but these are still expensive.
I dont agree with 60GB being enough for Windows 7 boot up. 120gb would be my minimum, but maybe im weird, I hear people use 40GB all teh time.
No one really wants a 40GB for a boot drive. its too small. If its the only drive you have then kiss goodbye to things like adobe suite as it would eat most of it up.
60GB is doable. I ran tests myself recently. installing my office suite, updates. SP1. a few apps I use, and it was around 20GB free on a 60GB Drive. that would be ok. but its still tight.
120gb is ideal, anything extra is gravy. with a nice 1TB or 2TB as a file drive.
Id like to see a review of the 120gb version, £190 is a hell of a price for this.
These are still some way off being mainstream however. I dont know anyone who owns an SSD.
Killer performance, still a lot of cash, but im converted. I bought a kingston value drive last week :p
Excellent, ill be ordering two of the 120gbs for raid next month
will be ordering a 60GB when its available here. nice review, thanks
240GB, wow, what I wouldnt give for one of those in my system.
I have an old kingston drive, I still really like it, hasnt let me down yet
I wonder how many people reading kitguru own an SSD. Id say the percentage would be high