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.
The drive scores 22 seconds in our boot up test, with the fastest single drives on the market.
The Vector 512GB takes joint top spot with the Vector 256GB model. Class leading results.
Lovely, price is quite good too considering, I thought it would be closer to £480
Guys, where is Samsung 840 pro?
Please add it!
Well, just because someone had compatibility issues with the sandforce controllers doesn’t mean to make a move 🙂 I have never had any issues with my sandforce SSDs and they are still going good