Where this drive excels is in the small file write category, where it delivers superior performance when compared to other non Sandforce-equipped solid state drives. When you make that same comparison against a traditional spinning disk drive, the increase in performance is staggering and provides a huge upside to using an SSD for the OS drive in a system. Startup and shutdown times are significantly reduced when compared to a spinning disk drive. Startup time is reduced by 100%, while shutdown time drops to a mere four seconds.