Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Boot Time

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.



Both Vista boot times and Crysis load times are a little slower on the Seagate 1.5TB than they are on the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1GB due to the high use of smaller files in both these operations. The performance dip is thanks to the Seagate 1.5TB's slower response times. However, both are still a big improvement of the Seagate 1TB drive and are certainly not slouches, especially in comparision to lower capacity drives