Posted on 06/08/2011 2:00:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
Great! Now I can only watch two episodes of Seinfeld while Old Betsy is booting up.
My Windows 7 boots to the start application in under a minute.
tech bkmk
It’s not only boot time, everything is faster.
I remember back in my geek days when I used to play Battlefield and other 3D shooters and constantly had to upgrade my system to keep up with the latest. Always adding more memory, new motherboards, faster processors, video cards and bus speeds... Nothing compared to when I bought my first WD Raptor 10,000 RPM, 36gb hard drive back in the day. Wow! Programs seemed to load instantly and the upgrade was immediately noticeable. Computer seemed like it tripled in speed.
Just bought a Corsair 128gb SSD and going to use it as my boot HD and put files on the 1TB drive.
Solid State Drive......no moving parts.........
I’ve booted off flash drive before; even with some intervening crap (I think there was a floppy drive involved, to load the boot routine and USB driver), it was pretty danged fast. In the misspent youth days, booting an Apple IIgs off battery-backed-up memory card was so freaking fast (and silent) that we’d restart just to watch it again. And then the DMA SCSI cards came out, and those were fast. Of course, the entire OS fit on an 800K floppy...
I had a friend who booted off of dual 15K drives striped in a RAID 0, hooked to a pretty hefty SCSI RAID card with gobs of cache. It was impressive, everything was practically instant. Seems there's no limit to what people going for the ultimate gaming rig will do.
I had an HP SmartArray PCI card with 512MB cache in my old desktop server booting to three 300 GB 15K Ultra320 SCSI disks in a RAID5. Server 2003 took less than 10 seconds to come up to a login screen. With 32 GB RAM and two dual-core Intel procs, it could run just about anything, but my God did it just gobble up power!
It takes 15 seconds.
But why would you ever shut it down (except for doing a big upgrade)? I only did to see how long it took. Takes about 5 seconds to shut down, BTW.
But, in normal use, you just open/close the lid. Instantaneous.
My Fedora workstation takes a while to boot and load KDE, but it is something that happens rarely enough that I don't give a damn.
~ :) uptime 10:57:30 up 153 days, 18:01, 18 users, load average: 1.04, 1.08, 1.08
Why not just use something that doesn't need to be booted every hour?
I have servers at work that have been up for more than 1300 days.
11:01am up 1333 day(s), 19:23, 2 users, load average: 1.21, 0.69, 0.56
That's more than 3 and a half years. Even if that server took 10 minutes to boot, (which it doesn't) it would still pay off.
I predict that the old HDD will soon go the way of the 5 1/4” FLOPPY, in favor of the SDD. Faster, more reliable, more secure...............
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