Boot times.

[Duke{CLR}]

My new laptop has an SSD in it, I love it. It takes 27 seconds from hitting the power button the typing my password. What do you guy get for boot times?

At the same time I'm having trouble with my desktop, it's slow to boot and sometimes it hangs in the bios, I'm thinking that it's time for some more memory and reinstall. If I do the reinstall I might as well grab an SSD.

[Apache Warrior]

If you love an SSD for your laptop, you will love it even more for your desktop.
Apache

[K PhaNTOM]

Boot is the time from pressing Windows 7 (In boot menu at BIOS) and the windows logo disappearing. That's mean my boot is about 10 seconds, however, if you count how long my damn mobo takes to check all the components, it will be about 30 or so seconds. It used to be much faster, but I don't know if BIOS have a cache that needs cleaning, I hate playing with BIOS.

[juneau]

Boot times can be increased by allowing the mobo to check for things that don't need to be enabled. Is all your onbaord stuff disabled K? Sounds, gfx, unused ports?

[K PhaNTOM]

Well, I don't really understand. Are you saying I can disable every PCI-e slot and in theory memory DIMMs? I have onboard sound, so I can't disable that. And I do have a lot of unused ports like eSATA and USB3.0. The only thing I have disabled are the SATA slots that aren't being used.

[juneau]

Well, I don't really understand. Are you saying I can disable every PCI-e slot and in theory memory DIMMs? I have onboard sound, so I can't disable that. And I do have a lot of unused ports like eSATA and USB3.0. The only thing I have disabled are the SATA slots that aren't being used.

Pretty sure you can't disable the pci ports, but yeah, disbaling sata/esata and usb etc has been shown to speed up boot times in the past. All you can do is try it and see what happens.

[goldenfooler]

My boot time is about 1 min I think from cold start. I really don't care its fine with me. When I am home I tend to leave my computer on.

I tend to wake up or walk in the door and click the on button. Then do something in the apartment and the computer is already going.

[WalkinTarget]

22-25 seconds from pressing the power button to when I can launch an app with no hourglass. That's on both my PCs, one the workbench rig with a 128GB SSD for a boot drive, and the main gamer with a 2TB RAID0 array and a 20GB SSD cache drive.

SSDs are the largest performance gain to be made on a modern PC that I have seen. Even in my gaming days, a new video card didn't really help a game appear any quicker, it just helped when the on-screen action picked up, but an SSD helps the system out on every level, not just 3D stuff.

[Dead...Again]

SSDs are great for improving boot time and load times in a lot of games. They are a bit of a trade-off, though. I have a 128GB one, and I have to limit what is installed on it. If I were getting one now, I'd probably go with 256GB.

One big factor in boot times on newer systems is the switch to UEFI BIOS. UEFI takes a lot longer to boot that the older legacy BIOS did. You can disable functionality you don't use to speed it up a little bit.

[Caddys83]

What is the correct way to time the boot time. People are all over the place as to how and when to start the count. I couldn't find anything on [H]ard but on this anandtech site, clearly, there is no define answer as where you start your boot time

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2251812

[Caddys83]

Forgot to add my 2 cents

My total time from power button to windows UI is 22 seconds, Its ok I guess, not in the teens numbers but I can live with that. Before my SSD, I used to be in the 40 seconds from power button to desktop and I still have to wait another 30 seconds before I can even get on the internet!



But by going the start of the Windows logo (OS bootloader?) to the UI screen (in my case Metro) 3 seconds and instant internet connection.

[goldenfooler]

Forgot to add my 2 cents

My total time from power button to windows UI is 22 seconds, Its ok I guess, not in the teens numbers but I can live with that. Before my SSD, I used to be in the 40 seconds from power button to desktop and I still have to wait another 30 seconds before I can even get on the internet!



But by going the start of the Windows logo (OS bootloader?) to the UI screen (in my case Metro) 3 seconds and instant internet connection.

We have gotten spoiled haven't we

[Caddys83]

We have gotten spoiled haven't we

[Devilguns]

From hitting the power button to usable windows about 10-12 seconds. windows is on its own SSD and my start up is pretty lean, no antivirus, bare necessities ect.

[Synergy]

35 ave on a 7200 I have everything in start up disabled