I have noticed a notable improvement in file copy/move between disks with large files. Other copy operations may or may not be faster as the bulk of my copying is large video files between disks.
Bobby > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Vista SP1 comments > <snip> > > Here is the funny part. From what I've read, SP1 is supposed to > speed up Vista. But in every test I've done (five systems so far, > and one clean install) SP1 slows the first two benchmarks by from 30% > to 50%. Now I find that ridiculous. I haven't read up on SP1, so > maybe it's giving all sorts of other exciting new features and the > "better stability and performance" that MS talks about wasn't the > main purpose, but one would think that given that performance is one > of the huge complaints about Vista, MS would have tried to do > something to make it faster. (And since boot time and shutdown time > are two of the major areas that end users recognize as issues, these > would be something to look at.) > > So from what I'm seeing here, SP1 is not going to save Vista. > > T >
