Vista SP1: significant improvement in the file system
With the advent of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, Microsoft announced a long list of bug fixes and a significant improvement in performance. A member of the team of ZDNet has conducted tests on file transfers, and the gain is impressive.
Feb 20, 2008 08:51 AM
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Of course, these tests were conducted on a very powerful machine (AMD Phenom 9700, 2 GB of memory, hard drives at 10,000 trs Raptor), but they allow you to have a good idea of what can make Service Pack 1 in terms of 'improved performance. The tests were to move, compress and extract a 644 MB file and a folder containing 3495 files spread across 30 cases for a total of 5.15 GB
The performance gap is so important; the tests were performed several times, to ensure the validity of the results some of which are presented below:
| Drive to drive copy |
Seconds |
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| SP1 - Single File |
10 |
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| SP1 - Single File |
17 |
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| |
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41% |
| Add files to compressed folder |
|
|
| SP1 - Single File |
61 |
|
| SP1 - Single File |
59 |
|
| |
|
-3.4% |
| Extreme files from compressed folder |
|
|
| SP1 - Single File |
44 |
|
| SP1 - Single File |
61 |
|
| |
|
27.9% |
| Push files to Vista SP1 network share (1Gbe) |
|
|
| SP1 - Single File |
11 |
|
| SP1 - Single File |
12 |
|
| |
|
8.3% |
| Pull files from Vista SP1 network share (1Gbe) |
|
|
| |
18 |
|
| |
22 |
|
| |
|
18.2 % |
Es different tests show Microsoft's efforts to reduce bottlenecks with regard to the transfer of files, in whatever operations: copying files or folders on local or network, or through an external hard disk type USB.
But that alone will make a Window Vista adopt faster, knowing that the Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, will offer enhanced performance on the order of 10%, according to some sources.
Source: ZDNet Blog
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