Is this a scientific test that compares apples to apples? Not exactly. Considering the price difference (10x more for the SSD) eBoostr's Value is phenomenal (for me and my specific system setup). You can see the numbers below, but here is my conclusion: eBoostr does offer comparable performance to an SSD. I ran a subset of the tests I did in the thread linked above (because I didn't have 67 of my programs installed) and the results are what I guessed at last Monday. This left 13GB of free space left, well below the 20% 'suggested' free space for HD's (could have copied 2.1GB more files over, but left some room for temp files). I copied 7GB of RAW image files and also 350MB (1 album) of Windows Media Lossless uncompressed music too. I disabled system restore (useless, any time I've ever used it), disabled scheduled defrag and set the pagefile to 512MB. Installed maybe 1/4 of my programs (64GB = 59.5GB actual space - less than my Music collection!) and let the system settle for a few hours. I then installed Win 7, the hardware drivers, did the Windows updates and installed Security Essentials.
#Using eboostr install
Identical system hardware except for 500GB Scorpio Blue HD.įirst thing I did was install firmware 1819 on this Indilinx SSD. VAIO P8400 8GB RAM Patriot Torqx 64GB SSD Win 7 圆4. Having just purchased a Patriot Torqx 64GB SSD, I am now in the position to answer it myself. Nobody cared to answer that particular question, even though quite a few people seemed to read my post. I asked if an SSD would improve my productivity in my notebook vs.