Three months of running Windows on SSD in graphics
After reading a wonderful article Optimizing Windows to use an SSD: myths and reality , I thought it was time to share the accumulated test statistics.
In mid-October, he assembled a new system unit for himself. For a long time I was going to personally feel what an SSD is. As a result, he acquired Intel SSDSC2CW120A3, on which he conducted an experiment.
A couple of pictures and some text below.
Test drive - Intel SSDSC2CW120A3. Firmware 400i. SATA 6 Gb / s.
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Gene.
RAM - 16 GB.
System - Windows7 x64.
All drivers and system updates are installed.
The user profile has been transferred to another physical disk (my long-standing habit of storing data separately). No other special system settings, digging in the registry, etc. were made. The only “but” - a separate small SSD for swap was installed in some kind of mement (the amount of RAM was quite significant, I didn’t want to take up so much space from the system drive, and I just suddenly thought that it would be nice to separate the swap). The graph shows this by changing the size of the disk.
The minimum set was immediately delivered from the software: office suite, archiver, antivirus, alternative browser, messenger, mailer. Later, CS6 was delivered for testing. Small utilities and other familiar software for work were put in the process on the system disk. Large games and media files are located on a separate disk.
All measurements were performed by CrystalDiskMark software version 3.0.1 x64 at the default settings (the number of test runs - 5; the test volume - 1000MB).
Periodic disk maintenance was performed by Intel SSD Toolbox v.3.1.1.
On the vertical axis in the graphs of speed in MB / s, the disk capacity in GB.
Vertical lines indicate the days when double testing was carried out. Before and after launching the Intel SSD Toolbox.
Reading
Tests Writing Tests
According to the graphs, it is immediately evident that the reading speed has practically not changed since the installation. Recording Speed pretty much jumped, but gradually came to some value, however, th eless than at the very beginning, but within reason. Somewhere around 20 percent (±), she fell on certain tests. It feels like working at a computer does not feel at all.
All the usual small programs installed on the system drive start almost instantly. Excel and Word (2010) somewhere in a second or a little less. Photoshop CS6 as it started in 2 seconds at the very beginning of testing, and now it starts in the same 2 seconds. The system itself takes about 20 seconds to log on. After entering the password after 2-4 seconds, the computer is fully ready for operation. At the very beginning of the experiment, it was 1-2 seconds, but now there is some software in startup.
The conclusion is clear for me - I do not want to return the system to a regular disk.
PS I think to continue further tests out of curiosity.
In mid-October, he assembled a new system unit for himself. For a long time I was going to personally feel what an SSD is. As a result, he acquired Intel SSDSC2CW120A3, on which he conducted an experiment.
A couple of pictures and some text below.
Test drive - Intel SSDSC2CW120A3. Firmware 400i. SATA 6 Gb / s.
Motherboard - ASUS Maximus V Gene.
RAM - 16 GB.
System - Windows7 x64.
All drivers and system updates are installed.
The user profile has been transferred to another physical disk (my long-standing habit of storing data separately). No other special system settings, digging in the registry, etc. were made. The only “but” - a separate small SSD for swap was installed in some kind of mement (the amount of RAM was quite significant, I didn’t want to take up so much space from the system drive, and I just suddenly thought that it would be nice to separate the swap). The graph shows this by changing the size of the disk.
The minimum set was immediately delivered from the software: office suite, archiver, antivirus, alternative browser, messenger, mailer. Later, CS6 was delivered for testing. Small utilities and other familiar software for work were put in the process on the system disk. Large games and media files are located on a separate disk.
All measurements were performed by CrystalDiskMark software version 3.0.1 x64 at the default settings (the number of test runs - 5; the test volume - 1000MB).
Periodic disk maintenance was performed by Intel SSD Toolbox v.3.1.1.
On the vertical axis in the graphs of speed in MB / s, the disk capacity in GB.
Vertical lines indicate the days when double testing was carried out. Before and after launching the Intel SSD Toolbox.
Reading
Tests Writing Tests
According to the graphs, it is immediately evident that the reading speed has practically not changed since the installation. Recording Speed pretty much jumped, but gradually came to some value, however, th eless than at the very beginning, but within reason. Somewhere around 20 percent (±), she fell on certain tests. It feels like working at a computer does not feel at all.
All the usual small programs installed on the system drive start almost instantly. Excel and Word (2010) somewhere in a second or a little less. Photoshop CS6 as it started in 2 seconds at the very beginning of testing, and now it starts in the same 2 seconds. The system itself takes about 20 seconds to log on. After entering the password after 2-4 seconds, the computer is fully ready for operation. At the very beginning of the experiment, it was 1-2 seconds, but now there is some software in startup.
The conclusion is clear for me - I do not want to return the system to a regular disk.
PS I think to continue further tests out of curiosity.