Why You Need TRIM For Your SSD

Written by Harry Butler

February 4, 2010 | 08:29

Tags: #comparison #drive-controller #intel-trim #performance #quiet-computing #solid-state-drive #ssd #trim #windows-7

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Windows 7 Boot

For this test we use disk imaging software to create an exact copy of the same Windows 7Home Premium install on every hard disk drive or SSD before recording the time taken to boot from the BIOS logo screen to a working Vista desktop, using the Crystal Disk Diskinfo set to run at startup as the chequered flag.

Other than this, 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.

Windows Boot Time

Windows 7 64-bit, cold boot

  • Corsair P128 (18C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (18C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, clean)
  • Corsair P128 (19C1Q firmware, dirty)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02G2 firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02G2 firmware, dirty)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, clean)
  • Intel X25-M 160GB (02HD firmware, dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.3 firmware, clean)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.3 firmware, dirty)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, clean)
  • OCZ Vertex 128GB (v1.5 firmware, dirty)
  • Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (fastest hard disk)
  • 33
  • 35
  • 33
  • 33
  • 32
  • 33
  • 32
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 33
  • 33
  • 71
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seconds, lower is better

For analysis of these results, please see the Results Analysis page.
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