The difference in boot-up speed on these two devices is just silly. They both run the same hardware (the Q1 Ultra even has 2GB as opposed to the Amtek’s 1GB of RAM.) and return very similar Crystal Mark results. The U560 drive seems about 40-50% faster than the Q1 Ultra and this will be contributing to the Q1 Ultra’s problems but in my opinion, most of the speed issue here is down to Vista. 3 minutes to boot and get a browser is just unacceptable. The low-end Everun which runs XP and has a slower disk than the Q1 Ultra takes under half of that time. Here’s a (silent) video that demonstrates the issue.
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