Benchmarks: Real-Public Applications

The Windows 7 boot prison term test is measured from the moment the OS loading screen appears to the clock time the Windows desktop is fully loaded. Crucial's m4 jumps into the 10-2d angle bracket, beating the C300's time by 26%. While IT fared 30% better than Intel's 320 and 510 Series, it couldn't quite exceed the Peak 3's 8.8-second showing.

For the application load test, we launch the following applications connected Windows' startup: Internet Explorer, Outlook 2007, Approach 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, Word 2007 and Photoshop CS4. The test starts when the Windows 7 inauguration sound plays until the final application is loaded and accessible.

The m4's Windows 7 multitasking carrying out was typical for a fast SSD, taking just 5.3 seconds or 0.6 seconds thirster than the quickest SSD we've tested. While this did make it 0.2 seconds slower than the RealSSD C300, the results are inside our margin of fault for this benignant of test, which is conducted victimisation a stopwatch.

This try measures the time IT takes to plunge Adobe brick Photoshop CS4. Whereas the quickest SSDs take just a second to load Photoshop CS4, we found that the Important m4 256GB took 2.1 seconds. In inferior congener terms, that's twice as slow as the RealSSD C300, Vertex 3 and Samsung 470 Series and on par with Intel's SSD 320 Series.

We recorded the above results while loading StarCraft II's mateless player campaign (start when the lading projection screen appears and stopping once the "cluck to play" message appears). The m4 was slimly slower than the C300. With a load time of 19.4 seconds, it was besides 47% slower than the 510 Series and double every bit slow as the old Vertex 2.