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Admittedly the two times I can think of lately were both on laptops with HDDs, but I've been sitting and waiting for a laptop to finish a system restore operation for about 1.5 hours now. I could understand it if this laptop was an absolute performance slouch, but it has an AMD A8 processor in (I don't know which exactly but it's not as if it's an Atom or an AMD E or C range CPU). The previous laptop I'm pretty sure had a sandy bridge i3. As I write this, the laptop has finally changed its status to "finalising system restore".
I'm doing the restore from Win10 setup rather than from within Windows, and due to another experience recently (on Vista), I have the feeling that I/O caching might be disabled (or something equally damaging to performance) in that mode, but at least it rules out things like security software or other software the user has installed being the cause of the slowness. At any rate, I'm pretty sure these aren't the first times I've done system restore from Windows setup, and while I very rarely use restore, it's still quite surprising.
I'm doing the restore from Win10 setup rather than from within Windows, and due to another experience recently (on Vista), I have the feeling that I/O caching might be disabled (or something equally damaging to performance) in that mode, but at least it rules out things like security software or other software the user has installed being the cause of the slowness. At any rate, I'm pretty sure these aren't the first times I've done system restore from Windows setup, and while I very rarely use restore, it's still quite surprising.