BootRacer:
BootRacer is a free utility from Greatis Software that is used to test your Windows boot speed. It measures the time to logon as well as the time from logon to desktop. This test was run twice using only the hard drive and then three more times with the OCZ Synapse Cache installed.
Normally, our test system took about 25 seconds to boot and reach the desktop. With the Synapse Cache installed, the total boot time dropped to a mere 13 seconds.
PCMark Vantage - HDD Suite:
PCMark Vantage measures the performance of the latest PC hardware across a variety of common scenarios. It supports both system level and component level benchmarking and comprises several different test suites. To measure the performance of the Synapse Cache, I used PCMark Vantage's HDD suite, which includes eight separate tests that simulate common hard drive usage.
The Synapse Cache got off to a slow start, scoring only 5667 the first time the test was run. By the second test run, the score increased to 36,095. This was still no match for OCZ's Vertex 3 SSD, which scored an impressive 53,279.
