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    Disk Activity in Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jxtx, May 16, 2009.

  1. jxtx

    jxtx Notebook Consultant

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    I have been playing around with Windows 7 (x86 and x64) for the past few days on my ASUS F3Sa. Since I could not get a couple of my favorite ASUS applications/drivers to work flawlessly, I switched back to Vista. It took about two minutes using Vista for me to recognize a significant difference between these operating systems. In Windows 7, the hard disk is finally at rest. Vista, in comparison, was bogged down with hard disk activity. Could this be the key reason why Vista seems slower than Windows 7?

    I also noticed that my external USB hard disk copies large files to my desktop at around 20MB/s with Windows 7 and 10MB/s with Vista. This is a significant improvement!

    So, after a day of playing with Vista, I am headed back to Windows 7. It will be nice when Windows 7 becomes a retail product and Vista becomes just another Windows ME.

    Now if ASUS would hurry up and produce some less buggy software...

    Jeremy
     
    jxtx, May 16, 2009
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