The SSD myth unraveled

[Randall Leong]

Originally Posted by Harm Millaard

@Randall,

I get these startup times after turning on my machine in the morning and booting Windows. If the prefetch cache causes this, then all the more reason to diminish the impact of SSD's, because it is quite normal to start PR once a day and if the prefetch cache makes the loading of PR happen in 7 seconds on a system with conventional disks, then that is great. Personally I'm not looking at ways to slow down my system just to make a point.

Anyway, I was a bit off on the 24 hours. I might have used a cleaner to clean old prefetch data on that system. Therefore, I am going to wait a few days without cleaning before I perform the launch test again.

[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Originally Posted by Harm Millaard

Is that fast or slow? Don't know because I have no idea how much time that same project would take on an all SSD system.

BTW, this is on an old i7-920 system with conventional HDD's only.

It's pretty fast, by any standard. Thanks for replying.