Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed @ HotHardware.com

news · May 28, 2009

Hello Everyone,

Windows 7 is undoubtedly the most exciting new operating system to come out

of Microsoft within the past decade--and with good reason. The user

interface is superb, gone are many of the oddball Vista quirks, and the

operating system is light and snappy, marking a massive 180 degree shift

away from the heaviness and bloat of Vista. Despite the fact that it's based

on many of the same core Vista elements, Windows 7 is a different beast, and

should be looked at in a fresh new light.

As with any new operating system release, there are a lot of questions with

regards to how it will perform on various hardware configurations--one of

the more interesting ones being related to disk performance. So, today we're

going to look at how various types of disks perform under Windows 7, both of

the traditional platter based variety and new solid state disks. We're not

only curious about how disk performance changes between the operating

systems, but want to see if Windows 7's new solid-state specific

optimizations and tuning give users even greater performance compared to

Vista...

Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed:

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