Significantly Shorter Boot-up Times With Fast Hard Drives
- 1. Fast Hard Drives: The Key To High System Performance
- 2. The Test Candidates At A Glance
- 3. Benchmark Results
- 4. Significantly Shorter Boot-up Times With Fast Hard Drives
- 5. How The A.B.L.E. Power-saving Mechanism Works
4. Significantly Shorter Boot-up Times With Fast Hard Drives
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Desktop users frequently find fault with notebooks' relatively long boot-up time on a cold start compared to that of a desktop PC. But if a notebook is equipped with a faster hard drive, this waiting time can be cut by up to 18 %.
The calculated value is the time that passes from the moment at which the "on" button on the notebook is pressed until system boot is complete, including the opening of Wordpad.
Impact On System Performance And Battery Life
The last thing we tried was to clarify the matter of how much the hard drive affects the performance of the system, and to what extent a faster hard drive impacts battery life.
Consequently, system performance can be increased by up to 15% using a fast hard drive like the Travelstar 7K60 and a mix of applications consisting mainly of typical office applications.
One result is particularly interesting - the fact that even a clearly faster hard drive like the 7200-rpm model from Hitachi only makes a negligible dent in the battery life. The fact that using the Travelstar 7K60 not only provides higher system performance but also demands less from the battery than the Momentus does not in any way contradict the statements made at the beginning of the article. Obviously, Hitachi succeeded in getting the energy use of the Travelstar 7K60, which turns at a speed of 7200 rpm, lower than the typical demand of a fast and economical 5200-rpm drive like the Momentus from Seagate. For one, the Travelstar 7K60 has a femtoslider. The femtoslider is not only considerably smaller, it is also significantly lighter than a "normal" picoslider. However, less volume means that less power is needed to move the slider back and forth across the disks. This, in turn, results in lower energy use by the hard drive. For another thing, Hitachi uses a very effective, adaptive power-saving mechanism - the A.B.L.E. (=adaptive battery life extender).
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