Kingston’s HyperX and VNow 200 SSDs turn up the heat on the Hard Disk Drive
Windows Startup and Shutdown
Now we come to what is arguably one of the most frustrating part of Windows – waiting for it to start-up or shutdown. For some of us, it is not important as we rarely start-up or shutdown our PCs. For others, it is a painful process to watch – while others of us do something else while our programs start-up or shut down.
The average shutdown time represents an “average range” for the test PC as there are so many variables when you shutdown your PC (installing updates will prolong the process). From the chart, basically you are saving nearly half the time, on average, with a SSD over a HDD.
Startup on an SSD offers even more time-saving – you will spend one third of your time waiting for an SSD to load Win 7 compared to using a HDD .
How do you value your time? The charts speak for themselves again and power users will love this feature as no one wants to go make a cup of coffee while Windows sets up (we hope). Windows 8 may mititage this issue somewhat for HDD holdouts as it boots much faster than Windows 7. Let’s head for our conclusion.
