May 4th, 2009
Runcore Pro IV SSD benchmarks
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post I’ve completed some quick real-world benchmarks of the Pro IV 2.5-inch SATA SSD in my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM running Mac OS 10.5.6 with all updates applied. The SSD was set up from the HDD using Apple’s Migration Assistant.
They aren’t particularly scientific, just a snapshot of how I use my Mac on a daily basis, and as you can see the Pro IV SSD smokes the HDD.
On the left is the 128GB Runcore Pro IV SSD, on the right a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue 5400RPM HDD. All times are in seconds. Lower numbers are better, obviously:
| Runcore SSD | WD 5400 HDD | |
|---|---|---|
| Launch Photoshop | 4.68 | 17.14 |
| Launch Acrobat | 1.47 | 6.69 |
| Launch Mail.app | 2.96 | 53.51 |
| Launch Firefox 3 | 3.44 | 26.34 |
| Open 14 tabs | 20.88 | 38.62 |
| Open 5k FM10 db | 4.37 | 9.19 |
| Launch Tweetdeck | 10.15 | 26.47 |
| Launch Word ‘08 | 3.32 | 16.53 |
| Launch Excel ‘08 | 3.09 | 14.40 |
Cold boot, restart and shutdown were about the same with SSD and the HDD, but everything else is much, much faster.
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of PowerPage.org, which has been publishing daily mobile technology news since December 1995. For disclosures on Jason's industry affiliations, click here or to view Jason's full profile click here.
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