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Samsung SSD Shows Its Performance Edge
Samsung's SSD provides a faster boot time and speeds file search, large-file processing.
Drive Drive technology Test Completion Time (Seconds)
Boot up Copy files & folders Copy large file Find file ACDSee PowerPack 5.01 Ahead Nero Express 61
Samsung 32GB SSD (32GB) Solid-state 35 267 196 58 710 425
Seagate Momentus 5400.3 (160GB) 2 Perpendicular recording 42 270 215 131 647 607
Seagate Momentus 5400.2 (120GB) 2 Longitudinal recording 43 286 223 137 659 638
Chart notes: All drives used the ATA-100 interface. Lower scores are better on all tests. Bold denotes the best score. Tests performed by the PC World Test Center. All rights reserved.
Footnotes: 1 These tests are part of the PC World Test Center's WorldBench 5 suite. For details on how we test, visit www.worldbench.com. 2 This is a 5400-rpm drive with 8MB of cache.