Atto Disk Benchmark

Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB HDD

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Nice read speeds here again, with write speeds dropping off the quoted 480MBps sequential that Kingston talked about.

Sandra Physical Disk Benchmark – Read

Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD

Drive Score: 386.58MB/s
Random Access time: 17µs

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB HDD

Drive Score: 92.93MB/s
Random Access time: 11.9ms

Real Time Boot

Boot times are based on using a stopwatch to time the period from when the power button it pressed until the Windows login screen appears. Post times on this setup arn’t the fastest, which can be attributed to about half the boot time in the SSD’s case.

Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD

38.407s

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB HDD

54.414