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I never wanted to say that SSD's aren't faster in sequential reads!
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Who forced you to do so, then?
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Most SSD's aren't that much faster than good S-ATA drives in sequential read.
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The thing is:
Loading games and textures as you posted isn't sequential reading and even in that, the SSD is in the advantage in most cases. There is no game that uses a single 2GB file that is loaded as a whole into memory - that's utter nonsense and a perfectly artificial test. Especially for gaming it's random read access and here is, where the SSD can really triumph, because it simply has no physical disc to turn and no arm to swing. As a result the most important thing for loading multiple files especially for gaming is the reaction time.
SSDs usually have a reaction time of 0.1 - 0.2ms. The fastest HDD (VelociRaptor from WD) has a reaction time of 3.6ms.
That's achieved by 10,000 RPMs, a special cooling case and 37dB A.
(That's 2db above the level of noise allowed in Germany's towns during night-time!)
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Try setting the PageFile to 0 in Vista/Win7. Or try to disable it and see what happens to the file.
@Space used for Vista/Win7:
I have run Vista over a year on a 25GB partition. No problem. I only installed windows on this partition, all working programs on different HDD. Works nice and BTW is recommended with most professional programs, as you can access both drive simultaneously. Most professional programs don't even install if you force them to work on the systems-drive for the same reason.
I currently have all programs stored on my System Drive. That's about 12 professional photo- and video-editing tools, webdesign-stuff, etc. Total size: 29GB.