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Crucial M4 FTW!

bbhaag said:
Nice vid man. Thats an impressive boot time.
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Thanks. I'm really amazed because through all the various Windows 7 SSD boot videos, I've yet to come across a video where the computer boot into Windows 7 faster than mines once the Starting Windows screen appeared. :ninja:
 
Can't see the video at work but yes, mine boots well before Windows (7) animation completes. And I'm not even running on SATA3 speed...
 
with SSDs, the bottleneck is the CPU,

so the fast the cpu, the faster it is to boot,

it is not going to boot the same on core 2 duo 2.0ghz, compared to an i5 running at 4ghz.

and some extra hardware components in the mother board delay the boot few extra seconds.
 
Engineer said:
Actually no, because it will boot even faster if you use MSConfig to turn it off! :biggrin:
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What option is it, disable GUI boot?

OP - Can you share the settings you have changed for increased boot? My boot times are already fast but not quite as good as whats on the video.
 
I'd be disapointed if it took that long afer the desktop came up for all my icons to show, programs to load, and ready to use.
 
Coup27 said:
What option is it, disable GUI boot?

OP - Can you share the settings you have changed for increased boot? My boot times are already fast but not quite as good as whats on the video.
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I set the page file on the SSD to be 1gb in size as opposed to the size of your RAM. Also, I disabled superfetch in the services and went into regedit: HKLM/System/CurrentControlset/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management/Prefetch Parameters and change the key valus of Enableboottrace, enableprefetcher, enablesuperfetch all to 0 and exit regedit.
 
WilliamM2 said:
I'd be disapointed if it took that long afer the desktop came up for all my icons to show, programs to load, and ready to use.
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As soon as the Windows 7 desktop is shown, my computer is responsive and ready to use. Even though some icons and programs are not fully loaded yet, if I were to immediately launch firefox, a game, etc... It would instantly begin loading that whilst still loading the rest of Windows.
 
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Impressive, but this is still slightly longer than it would take to simply hibernate in and have the pc immediately responsive, even on a spindle HDD, since Windows 7 came out. You wouldn't even have to wait the extra few seconds for those docks to pop up if you did this because they'd be instantly restored.

I just really want to know why it took SSDs to come out for people to start caring about how long it takes until they can hit the power button and be ready to go.. because you could have eliminated this time long before SSDs even hit the market by using hibernate or advanced sleep modes.
 
Protomize said:
I set the page file on the SSD to be 1gb in size as opposed to the size of your RAM. Also, I disabled superfetch in the services and went into regedit: HKLM/System/CurrentControlset/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management/Prefetch Parameters and change the key valus of Enableboottrace, enableprefetcher, enablesuperfetch all to 0 and exit regedit.
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i do not think this is efficient, .. you are disabling some services that are used to speed up some processes,

specifically, superfetch (and prefetch?), it is used to speed up processes loading times, it saves the cpu time needed at the process start, ... ssd speed will not compensate for cpu wait time in this case.

so you are making windows boot fast, but all other applications start slower.

I bet if you left those services running as their default, the time it takes for the startup applications will be allot faster. .. just need to give it some time to cache stuff, you may or may not notice immediate difference if you enabled superfetch.
 
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Protomize said:
Enableboottrace
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What does this entry do? I have already done all of the other ones.

Are you using a single m4?

hhhd1 - Most SSD tweak guides out there tell you to disable prefetch and superfetch if using an SSD and Intel and Samsungs SSD toolboxes both disable them if you run the system tune feature.
 
thelastjuju said:
Impressive, but this is still slightly longer than it would take to simply hibernate in and have the pc immediately responsive, even on a spindle HDD, since Windows 7 came out. You wouldn't even have to wait the extra few seconds for those docks to pop up if you did this because they'd be instantly restored.

I just really want to know why it took SSDs to come out for people to start caring about how long it takes until they can hit the power button and be ready to go.. because you could have eliminated this time long before SSDs even hit the market by using hibernate or advanced sleep modes.
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Here you go folks!
Frankly I have no idea what this obsession is with boot times! Here we have workstations that take minutes to initialize POST and their dedicated storage arrays BEFORE booting. The difference is when actually doing work units with 400,000 IOPS sustained and reading and writing over 6GB/S. A single desktop/mobile SSD would hang it up on such a load. 😉

Also with SSDs the bottleneck is the interface. What's needed is a quickpath bypassing PCE-I completely so a large disk or array can be attached and eliminate most of the expense of proprietary systems we use now. All current generation drives are capped by a 6Gbps SATA/SAS interface!
 
hhhd1 said:
i do not think this is efficient, .. you are disabling some services that are used to speed up some processes,

specifically, superfetch (and prefetch?), it is used to speed up processes loading times, it saves the cpu time needed at the process start, ... ssd speed will not compensate for cpu wait time in this case.

so you are making windows boot fast, but all other applications start slower.

I bet if you left those services running as their default, the time it takes for the startup applications will be allot faster. .. just need to give it some time to cache stuff, you may or may not notice immediate difference if you enabled superfetch.
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This video doesn't agree with you. 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NtMXfwefQ
 
thelastjuju said:
Impressive, but this is still slightly longer than it would take to simply hibernate in and have the pc immediately responsive, even on a spindle HDD, since Windows 7 came out. You wouldn't even have to wait the extra few seconds for those docks to pop up if you did this because they'd be instantly restored.

I just really want to know why it took SSDs to come out for people to start caring about how long it takes until they can hit the power button and be ready to go.. because you could have eliminated this time long before SSDs even hit the market by using hibernate or advanced sleep modes.
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True, but what happens "after" you've boot into the OS? Yes, if you've hibernated or returned from standby a HDD will have the machine ready to work near instantly, but an SSD will continue to destroy the HDD while "using" the OS... Also, a HDD would never be able to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NtMXfwefQ
 
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