Three months of Windows on SSD in graphs
After reading the excellent article Optimizing Windows to use an SSD disk: myths and reality , I thought it was time to share the accumulated statistics of tests.
In the middle of October, he collected for himself a new sistemnik. For a long time I was going to personally feel what SSD is. As a result, I acquired Intel SSDSC2CW120A3, on which I conducted the experiment.
A couple of pictures and some text below.
The test drive is Intel SSDSC2CW120A3. Firmware 400i. SATA 6 Gb / s.
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Gene.
RAM - 16 GB.
System - Windows7 x64.
Installed all the drivers and system updates.
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The user profile has been moved to another physical disk (my old habit of storing data separately). No other special system settings, digging in the registry and other things have been done. The only "but" is that a separate small SSD was installed under a swap in some kind of memory (the amount of RAM was quite significant, I didn’t want to take so much space from the system drive, and just the thought suddenly arose that it would be nice to separate the swap). The graph shows this by changing the size of the disk.
From the software the minimum set was immediately delivered: office suite, archiver, antivirus, alternative browser, instant messenger, mailer. Later for tests, CS6 was delivered. Small utilities and other familiar software for work were put in the process on the system disk. Large games and media files are placed on a separate disk.
All measurements were carried out with CrystalDiskMark version 3.0.1 x64 on the default settings (the number of test runs was 5; the test volume was 1000MB).
Periodic disk maintenance was performed using Intel SSD Toolbox v.3.1.1.
On the vertical axis on speed graphs in MB / s, disk capacity in GB.
Vertical lines indicate the days when double testing was conducted. Before and after starting the Intel SSD Toolbox.
Reading tests
Write tests
It is immediately apparent from the graphs that the reading speed practically does not change since the moment of installation. The recording speed jumped quite heavily, but gradually came to some value, true, less than at the very beginning, but within reason. Somewhere by 20 percent (±) she fell on certain tests. Feels like working at a computer this is not felt at all.
All the usual small programs installed on the system disk, run almost instantly. Excel and Word (2010) somewhere in a second or a bit less. Photoshop CS6 both started in 2 seconds at the very beginning of testing, and now it starts in the same 2 seconds. The system itself is loaded seconds 20 to logon. After entering the password in 2-4 seconds, the computer is fully operational. At the very beginning of the experiment it was 1-2 seconds, but now there is some software in autoload.
The conclusion for me is unequivocal - I do not want to return the system to a regular disk.
PS I think to continue further tests out of curiosity.
In the middle of October, he collected for himself a new sistemnik. For a long time I was going to personally feel what SSD is. As a result, I acquired Intel SSDSC2CW120A3, on which I conducted the experiment.
A couple of pictures and some text below.
The test drive is Intel SSDSC2CW120A3. Firmware 400i. SATA 6 Gb / s.
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Gene.
RAM - 16 GB.
System - Windows7 x64.
Installed all the drivers and system updates.
')
The user profile has been moved to another physical disk (my old habit of storing data separately). No other special system settings, digging in the registry and other things have been done. The only "but" is that a separate small SSD was installed under a swap in some kind of memory (the amount of RAM was quite significant, I didn’t want to take so much space from the system drive, and just the thought suddenly arose that it would be nice to separate the swap). The graph shows this by changing the size of the disk.
From the software the minimum set was immediately delivered: office suite, archiver, antivirus, alternative browser, instant messenger, mailer. Later for tests, CS6 was delivered. Small utilities and other familiar software for work were put in the process on the system disk. Large games and media files are placed on a separate disk.
All measurements were carried out with CrystalDiskMark version 3.0.1 x64 on the default settings (the number of test runs was 5; the test volume was 1000MB).
Periodic disk maintenance was performed using Intel SSD Toolbox v.3.1.1.
On the vertical axis on speed graphs in MB / s, disk capacity in GB.
Vertical lines indicate the days when double testing was conducted. Before and after starting the Intel SSD Toolbox.
Reading tests
Write tests
It is immediately apparent from the graphs that the reading speed practically does not change since the moment of installation. The recording speed jumped quite heavily, but gradually came to some value, true, less than at the very beginning, but within reason. Somewhere by 20 percent (±) she fell on certain tests. Feels like working at a computer this is not felt at all.
All the usual small programs installed on the system disk, run almost instantly. Excel and Word (2010) somewhere in a second or a bit less. Photoshop CS6 both started in 2 seconds at the very beginning of testing, and now it starts in the same 2 seconds. The system itself is loaded seconds 20 to logon. After entering the password in 2-4 seconds, the computer is fully operational. At the very beginning of the experiment it was 1-2 seconds, but now there is some software in autoload.
The conclusion for me is unequivocal - I do not want to return the system to a regular disk.
PS I think to continue further tests out of curiosity.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/165743/
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