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Vista SP1 to Make USB Performance Even Worse

  February 17th, 2008



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Vista SP1 to Make USB Performance Even Worse

Windows Vista has been out for a little over a year now and there has been a lot of controversy as to whether or not it is a "good" operating system. I use to term good loosely as many people have differing opinions on what good actually is. Some have dubbed it as the next Windows ME, while others have praised it over and over again for advancements and changes.

No matter how you can look at it, the overall performance on Vista has been relatively subpar even when considering the higher system requirements to run the OS. Service Pack 1 is soon to be released and along with it is supposedly coming a number of noticeable performance increases. Unfortunately it looks like there is some performance decreases to come with it. Crave did some testing in their labs and noticed a 44% to 54% decrease in write speeds to USB drives.

This is bad news for Vista, as we have already seen some horrid performance on it with the Buffalo Turbo USB drive that performed flawlessly on Windows XP. It looks like we are just going to have to keep our fingers crossed and wait for the final RTM and public releases to find out the real truth.

Via Crave

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