Super Performance, also for SATA 2

Once on board the Internet was not much to see, I simply ordered me once as part of the "hard drive-weeks". (The Crucial M500 Traderjob also later)
Anticipation has to be said that my benchmarks are not the absolutely most important for me, but my primary goal was, my 3 years old laptop to make it faster. That SATA 3 is not supported, I knew, but I wanted to test how does the performance of a SSD times.

After cloning was done relatively quickly and selected the SSD as a boot drive, the laptop ran in 20 seconds (from a switch press to the desktop), with my 5400rpm hard drive lasts approximately 65 seconds.
Until then Firefox was loaded and we could actually start surfing, went by with the SSD another 20 seconds - peak!
There really are worlds between the SSD and HDD my conventional, where it took a total of about 3 and a half minutes until you had booted the laptop and could actually surf the Internet.

But the net countless advocates of the Crucial M500 raving, of course I had it to me as a comparison object get (the 240GB version) and I was surprised by the result:
Boot: Crucial 17.98 seconds; Transcend 18.01 seconds
Start Outlook: Crucial 6.22; Transcend 8.2
Word / Excel: Crucial 1.37; Transcend 1.26
Photoshop: Crucial 5.84; Transcend 5.38
Artist: Crucial 7.35; Transcend 9.31
2GB Video and smaller PDF's (70 files): Crucial 33 seconds; Transcend 21 seconds

In the applications it was, as you can see, quite balanced, while copying the Crucial lagged well behind at the end, until the copying was really finished.
The Crucial does have a lovely (re) s aluminum housing, but at the Transcend gives more space, 3-year warranty, but by no means a worse performance.
At the end of the Transcend has therefore can argue with me and I'm still impressed by the speed increase by the SSD!