OCZ Synapse Cache SSD review

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Performance Application load times

 

Performance Application load times

Next to gaming where a cache will help out massively is obviously your default applications. Once they get cached, the next time and next and next and next they'll load up much faster.

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We start off with a stopwatch in our hands and measure windows Boot time.  We start after the BIOS post until the OS has loaded into the desktop. We run it five times.

The HDD entry is just that, caching off, then the first, second and third run have caching on. The minute the data is cached we can see a nice improvement in overall load time. For RUN 2 and 3 we shaved off some serious booty time alright --  and we all like booty time ;)

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For our second test we Internet Explorer 9 and load up Guru3D.com, on the 5400RPM HDD non cached that takes 15 seconds (yeah we do use a relatively slow HDD drive. Once caching kicks in that's reduced to 10 seconds, and once fully cached after the 2nd run the load time crumbles down to 1~2 seconds, what we normally expect from SSD performance.

Mind you that as long as you on occasion use a particular application, it'll remain cached and thus fast loading.

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