Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Boot Time

For this test we used disk imaging software to create an exact copy of the same windows Vista Home Premium install on every hard disk drive before recording the time taken to boot from the BIOS logo screen and a working Vista desktop, using the Windows Vista welcome centre as the chequered flag.

Other than the Vista welcome centre, all other start-up processes were disabled prior to the imaging process. The boot time was recorded using a standard hand held stopwatch, with the test repeated five times and an average taken from the middle three results to produce the figures below.

Crysis Boot Time

For this test we used our Crysis benchmarking tool to queue up a number of Crysis benchmark runs and again used the hand held stopwatch to record the time the test system took to load our time demo. We used multiple runs to collect five results for each drive, with the the lowest and highest load times discarded and the average taken from the remaining three results.


Both Windows boot and Crysis load times for the X25-E are very similar to those of the X25-M, perhaps a little faster, but nothing much to shout about as the difference is literally a few tenths of a second. However, these still represent huge improvements over other drives, especially in regards to the Vista boot time where there's a very real difference between the SSD drives and the mechanical drives.