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Western Digital Scorpio hard drive out of the MSI Wind and replaced it with a San. Disk SATA 5. 00. 0 SSD. We hoped the boot time would be better and that applications would load more quickly, but in a day or two of anecdotal use with the San. Disk SSD, we didn't notice any performance improvement. At the time, we noted that the San. Disk SATA 5. 00. 0 is not a very fast SSD and that we regretted we had not had time to do any firm testing before we had to return our review model Wind to MSI. This week, when our friends at DV Nation lent us a blazing- fast 6.
GB Samsung SATA II SSD, we couldn't wait to install it in our Eee PC 1. H and this time run a complete battery of real- world tests to see how much a difference a high speed SSD can make in a mini- notebook.
Here are the most recent bios updates for the 2g 4G and 8G eee pcs. The folks over at eeeusers have already compiled a nice guide for updating the bios so I'll just. Asus Eee PC Windows XP Re installation CDs and Asus Eee PC Hard Drive Recovery CDs via download or mail.
Netbook Eee PC 1000HE offers unique user experiences. Featuring up to 9.5 hours of battery life, built in high speed connectivity and exclusive 10GB free E storage. Asus Eee PC; Developer: AsusTeK Computer Inc: Type: Netbook: Operating system: Linux. Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows 7. Windows 8.1: CPU: Celeron, Pentium, Atom. My Asus Eee PC 1000H shipped with Windows XP, and it runs pretty well. But what’s the point in having an 80GB hard drive if you don’t partition it and try.
With the easily accessible upgrade panel on the Eee PC 1. H, we were able to swap out the system's default 5,4. Seagate Momentus, with the Samsung SATA II in minutes. After installing a fresh copy of Windows XP Home SP2 with all the ASUS drivers and utilities, we were ready to put the system through some tests.
We opted to test the high- speed SSD- enhanced Eee PC 1. H not only against the Eee PC 1.
H with its default hard drive, but also against the Eee PC 9. RAM and CPU as the 1. H but sports a smaller 9- inch screen and a pair of SSD chips as its hard drive.
We wanted to see not only how much an SSD could improve the performance of the 1. H, but also how the aftermarket Samsung SATA II SSD compares to the built- in SSD chips ASUS uses on every Eee PC model except the 1. H. We won't bore you with too many details about ASUS's SSD chips, but it's important to note that all Eee PCs with more than 4. GB of storage space (9.
SSDs, with the first 4. GB on one chip and the remaining storage on a slower, higher- capacity chip. We ran our tests on the primary 4.
GB chip to get the best performance possible. HD Tach Tests. To get a rough idea of each hard drive's capability, we ran the quick bench test in HD Tach 3. Looking at the results, we were not surprised to see that the Samsung SATA II, which is rated at 1. MB/s read and 8. 0MB/s write speeds, gave transfer rates that were double that of the Seagate Momentus 5,4. ASUS 4. GB SSD which HD Tach detected as an "ASUS- PHISON SSD TST2. P."After all, the Samsung SATA II 6.
GB costs anywhere between $8. GB version is in the $4. The entire Eee PC 9. ASUS's SSD and a top- of- the- line drive like the Samsung. Nevertheless, we were surprised to see that the random access time was exactly the same on both SSDs.
System. Burst. Average Read. Random Access. Eee PC 1. H(Samsung SATA II SSD)1. MB/s. 93. 5. MB/s. Eee PC 1. 00. 0H(default hard drive)1.
MB/s. 35. 2. MB/s. Eee PC 9. 01. 45.
MB/s. 41. 1. MB/s. The real question is not how these drives look in HD Tach, but whether they make the Eee PC faster and more pleasant to use in the real world. In everyday computer use, system boot time and application launch times are extremely important to users, because the last thing anyone wants to do is sit there and wait while the hard drive light flickers. Boot Time. We measured boot time on all three Eee PCs, by pointing a camera at the screen and filming the entire start up process from the moment our finger touched the power button to the appearance of the last tray icon. We then went back to the video and determined the time down to the tenth of the second.
There was a huge, nearly 8- second difference between the HD and both SSDs. However, the two SSDs offered nearly identical times, proving that boot time is more dependent on random access than transfer rate. It's worth noting that there's very little one can do to make the boot time faster than 3. First of all, part of the boot process involves waiting for the system to post before Windows even starts loading and then we have to wait for all the little tray icons that the Eee PC needs like its video driver, power management application, and touchpad software. At one point, we tried turning off a whole bunch of Windows services, disabling the WIndows splash screen, and setting our paging file to a static size, and we were able to lower the time from 3. Application Launch Times. We used the camera again to capture application launch times for a few popular programs.
All launch times were measured the first time an application was opened after booting to prevent Windows from caching parts of the program in memory. As expected, the high- end Samsung SATA II blew away both the 9. ASUS- Phison SSD and the 1. H's Seagate Momentus. The battle for second place was more heated, with the 9. SSD opening more applications more quickly than the 1.
H's hard drive, but in a few noteworthy cases, the 5,4. Microsoft Word 2. In Word 2. 00. 7, the Samsung SSD was twice as fast (1.
ASUS- Phison SSD (2. H's hard drive. In the 9. Seagate Momentus to open everyone's favorite word processor, we could win a bull riding contest. Adobe Premiere Elements 4.
As we expected, the Samsung SSD blew away the other drives by opening the resource- heavy Premiere in only 1. Eee PC 9. 01 (2. 5 seconds) took almost exactly the same amount of time as the 1.
H with default hard drive (2. Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. Like Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements is a resource- intensive program that is fairly slow to load. And just as we saw with Premiere, the Samsung SSD opened the program fastest (1. However, this time the Seagate Momentus hard drive actually beat the pants off the Eee PC 9. SSD by launching the program six seconds sooner (1.
Adobe Reader 8. 1. Our Adobe Reader launch test was slightly different than our other tests in that we chose to open a large document, the 5. Comission Report, rather than starting the program by itself. We figure that absolutely nobody is going to launch Adobe Reader unless they're using it to open a PDF. Here you can see that the difference between the Samsung (2. ASUS- Phison (2. 3 seconds) is negligible, but the hard drive is way behind them both (6. Next Page: More Application Launches, Battery Life > > Firefox 3.
The Firefox 3 launch times of the Samsung SSD (2. Eee PC 9. 01 (3. 2 seconds) were less than a second apart, but the 1. H's hard drive took twice as long.
Battery Life. Since SSDs are supposed to draw far less power than traditional hard drives, we were curious whether replacing the hard drive in the 1. H with the Samsung SATA II SSD would increase the system's battery life. Using our Web surfing battery rundown (a macro that surfs the Web continuously on Wi- Fi) on all three systems, you can see that the Samsung SSD improves the Eee PC 1. H's battery life by 2.
Eee PC 9. 01 still gets nearly an hour more. The five and a half hour battery life of the 9. Eee PC 9. 01 get so much more battery life, because its SSD draws less power than the Samsung SSD or because it has a 9- inch rather than a 1. We'll have to wait and get an Eee PC 1.
Verdict. While we doubt that anyone would spend between $4. Samsung SATA II SSD in an Eee PC 1. H mini- notebook, this experiment has demonstrated that there is a huge difference in application launch times, boot times, and battery life between even the built- in ASUS- Phison SSD chip you find on the 9. Seagate Momentus hard drive on the 1.
H. A couple of questions remain, however. First, why do Premiere and Photoshop Elements load faster on the hard drive than the ASUS- Phison SSD? Second, will the SSD- based, 1. Eee PC 1. 00. 0, which we have not received yet, have a battery life closer to that of the 9. H? Finally, would replacing the 5,4. Seagate Momentus on the 1. H with a faster hard drive, perhaps a 7,2.