- Complete Startup time from the button of the PC, until the end of loading Windows:
20 seconds (regular) against 2 min 30 (on average, depending on the application loading)
- Complete boot time in Windows:
2 minutes 50 seconds against
- In the performance test built into Windows 7, I get 7.9 against 5.9 (3 SATA or SCSI)
- Speed décriture with giga of a file:
SSD SSD 160 MB / s
DD DD: between 55 and 70 MB / s (SATA or SCSI)
- The web browsing is more fluid and faster pages load much better.
- Direct Louverture of a large Word document is identical to the opening of single Word (less than 2 seconds), no need for disk cache. With the hard drive, you have two openings the same file for faster loading times, so that the file starts the first time in the cache of the disk.
- The charging time is identical with a large image file, such as CorelDraw 6 seconds total against 9.
More:
It's completely silent, like a USB key, so, we more nentend the CPU and video card fan; sweet!
The temperature measured is very low and stable: 29 ° against 36 ° to 45 ° with a SATA or SCSI hard drive. So the CPU and motherboard heat less. This gives a total of 5 ° less on ViaMichelin computer, and much less of energy consumption.
It comes with a small plastic booster sticker, daugmenter allowing its thickness to place, among others, in a housing of a dedicated mobile
Compared to an equivalent model from another manufacturer like Crucial SSD number 1 in sales on Amazon, if you are not looking to have the top performance and want to give a facelift to your old computer for a fast runtime already impressive, that Sandisk will cost you between 10 and 30 euros less than a Crucial.
In conclusion, despite the big drop in prices for SSD, the investment is still a little high, but it was really worth it.