As promised, here some tests carried out on the OCZ Vertex RAID disks of 120 GB installed in the 2008 Mac Pro. We compared this disk to a Samsung Spinpoint F1 that, although it is not the fastest of hard drives nevertheless has a good reputation.
To start we compared the start up time of the machine using each volume, from the appearance of apple logo until the time when one has the Finder in hand. It took 32 seconds for the hard drive and half the time for the SSD, 16 seconds.
We then opened an image of 820 MB (size on the hard drive) in Photoshop CS3. The Spinpoint spent 26 seconds to open this image compared to 14 for the SSD.
We then duplicated a file containing 55.000 files with a total size of 4,7 GB. This took 205 seconds for the hard drive and 113 seconds for the SSD.
To finish, a test under xBench. This software is not the
