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First we checked the drive and compared it to our hard drive on an AMD system. We used Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7, whereas Windows 7 is the 64-bit Ultimate version. To reduce the problems with the Windows file system Superfetch was disabled. First the hard drive. We used ATTO 2.46 disc benchmark.
![Image Image](/images/stories/2010/February/Reviews/GSkill_Falcon_II_64GB/hdd_sb750_xp.png)
![Image Image](/images/stories/2010/February/Reviews/GSkill_Falcon_II_64GB/hdd_sb750_win7.png)
Now the same for the SSD. We have formated it with a 2kB cluster size:
![Image Image](/images/stories/2010/February/Reviews/GSkill_Falcon_II_64GB/ssd_sb750_xp.png)
![Image Image](/images/stories/2010/February/Reviews/GSkill_Falcon_II_64GB/ssd_sb750_win7.png)
While the write speed is nearly the same, the read speed is nearly twice as fast on this SSD.