SSDs: I’m sold

Boot time of my work Mac with the stock Western Digital 7200 RPM drive: 1:05 to the login screen, 0:57 seconds to launch all my startup applications and give me a responsive desktop. A hair over two minutes total.

With a OCZ Vertex 128GB SSD: 0:13 to the login screen, 0:12 to a responsive desktop. It’s so fast that more than 10% of the boot time is me entering my username and password, which appears to take me about 3.5 seconds. (Counted as part of the 0:12 above, if you’re wondering.) Actually, it’s fast enough that the time I’m taking to hit the stopwatch buttons on my phone is probably statistically significant.

Test system is a 2006 Mac Pro, 4×3.0 GHz, 9 GB RAM. Running at startup are Spanning Sync, FontExplorer, Choosy, iStat Menus, Growl, TextExpander, Dragster, Quick Search Box, Mojo helper, Evernote helper, FastScripts, DragThing, DateLine, and Dropbox.

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Permalink | July 14th, 2009

Posted by Dan Hallock | Filed under Computer Stuff