[itdiscuss] SSD Drives in Laptops

[Bobby Stewart]

We have a couple. Haven't done any metrics to answer your questions. As
I understand it, 7 will be needed to properly access the drive vs.
legacy access in XP/Vista and earlier.

 

"Platter based hard drives and high-end solid state drives, all run
faster on Windows 7. Solid state drives see the largest performance
boost, which showed up to a 35% improvement in read performance and up
to a 23% boost in write performance. The performance difference for
platter based hard drives is admittedly smaller, but even though the
numbers don't showcase it, there is a definitely smoother, snappier
feeling to running Windows 7 compared to Vista, which can be perceived
even on traditional hard drives."