Windows Vista Boot & Crysis Load Times

For this test we used disk imaging software to create an exact copy of the same Windows Vista Home Premium install on every hard disk drive before recording the time taken to boot from the BIOS logo screen and a working Vista desktop, using the Windows Vista Welcome Centre as the chequered flag.

Other than the Vista Welcome Centre, all other start-up processes were disabled prior to the imaging process. The boot time was recorded using a standard handheld stopwatch, with the test repeated five times and an average taken from the middle three results to produce the figures below.



Having seen the enormous theoretical and read/write/copy improvements in performance, we were keen to see how the Titan's revised drive architecture would effect real world performance. The answer? Not very much. As our real world boot and game load tests are primarily read based, the field where the Titan has shown the least improvements in performance, there's very little to separate it from the cheaper, smaller 128GB G.Skill in either test, although performance was admittedly already excellent in both circumstances at just a few seconds behind the Intel X25 drives in each test.