When it comes to hard drive performance there is one area that even the most oblivious user notices: how long it takes to load the Operating System. While all the other tests were run with a Windows 7 operating system, this particular test uses another older test bed’s “day to day” OS (copied over to our new testbed) which has accumulated a lot of crud over the months from installs and removals. We chose the Anti-Virus splash screen as our finish line as it is the last program to be loaded on start up.In one generation Crucial was able to boost start-up times by nearly 24%. That is how much better Crucial has gotten with working with the 16nm ONFi 3 NAND ICs – and it is bloody marvelous.