Putting your OS on an SSD results in fast boots?

[Monkey_Business]

I heard that putting your operating system on an SSD results in extremely fast boot times. Approximately how much faster is a SSD compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive?

 

[glugglug]

I heard that putting your operating system on an SSD results in extremely fast boot times. Approximately how much faster is a SSD compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive?

They aren't on the same scale.

My PC actually boots and auto-logs in with Windows 7 x64 faster than my 42" LCD TV comes on.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

a lot.

 

[Axon]

Once the system passes the BIOS, I get to Windows 7 in approximately 20 seconds on my Intel X25-V. Shutdown is approximately 8 seconds. The boot/shutdown time is the one thing I really can't live with on RPM drives now. Otherwise, SSD tech is good but not life altering for what I do (game, surf, encode a bit here and there, watch movies, stream movies, word processing).

It does make things snappier, however.

 

[coolVariable]

This is a normal HDD

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And this is a SSD:

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[mfenn]

Let me put it this way:

I have a 120GB Agility and logging in is CPU-limited.

:awe::awe::awe:

 

[aigomorla]

ur better off getting 2 more magnetic disks and putting them on Raid0.

I went though SSD's and i pretty much couldnt notice any difference from 4 raptors vs 2 SSD's.

But i know i was limited on the controller side.

With a dedicated controller, the SSD's would own tho.

 

[bobross419]

ur better off getting 2 more magnetic disks and putting them on Raid0.

I went though SSD's and i pretty much couldnt notice any difference from 4 raptors vs 2 SSD's.

But i know i was limited on the controller side.

With a dedicated controller, the SSD's would own tho.

Jesus aigo... don't forget most of us are bottlenecked on the $$$ side

 

[glugglug]

ur better off getting 2 more magnetic disks and putting them on Raid0.

Only in terms of storage capacity. In terms of speed, 1 SSD > 18 Raptors in RAID 0.

 

[Monkey_Business]

Only in terms of storage capacity. In terms of speed, 1 SSD > 18 Raptors in RAID 0.

SSD's are fast, but are dwarfed in storage capacity compared to regular hard drives. They are also extremely expensive.

 

[Swivelguy2]

Only in terms of storage capacity. In terms of speed, 1 SSD > 18 Raptors in RAID 0.

SSD's are fast, but are dwarfed in storage capacity compared to regular hard drives. They are also extremely expensive.

This debate has started out, like most debates about SSDs vs HDDs, like such:

"Oranges are round."

"Yes, but bananas are yellow."

 

[Fayd]

This debate has started out, like most debates about SSDs vs HDDs, like such:

"Oranges are round."

"Yes, but bananas are yellow."

what if you're debating the merits of things, and the desirable traits are round and yellow?

 

[Monkey_Business]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227500

1TB SSD for $3,799 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[zagood]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227500

1TB SSD for $3,799 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Free shipping!

Damn, tax kills it for me though.

 

[Monkey_Business]

Free shipping!

Damn, tax kills it for me though.

How many of those SSD's is it actually physically and electronically possible to have in a RAID setup?

 

[ehume]

Putting your OS on an SSD results in fast boots?

Yes. But hold off for a SATA 3 SSD.

 

[Monkey_Business]

$3,799 is absolutely ridiculous! I can build an entire monster system with a Ci7 975 EE, EVGA X58 classified, 12GB DDR3, and Two HD 5970's in crossfirex! For the price of that 1TB SSD alone.

 

[M0RPH]

Well booting into Windows 7 doesn't take more than 50-60 sec on a normal HD here (depending on how you measure it). So I don't see how an SSD is gonna be THAT MUCH faster... and anyways how many times do you boot your computer, once a day?

 

[Monkey_Business]

Well booting into Windows 7 doesn't take more than 50-60 sec on a normal HD here (depending on how you measure it). So I don't see how an SSD is gonna be THAT MUCH faster... and anyways how many times do you boot your computer, once a day?

I haven't timed it, but it takes my computer Two or Three minutes to fully boot into Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

 

[M0RPH]

I haven't timed it, but it takes my computer Two or Three minutes to fully boot into Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

Well I'm talking about a near-clean install of W7 x64 and I'm talking the time past the bios to when I see the desktop. Just like the guy above who quoted 20 sec (and I'm guessing he's low-balling it). The question is, when do you start counting (past the bios? where exactly is that?) and when do you stop counting (as soon as you see the desktop or after all the stuff in your system tray is done loading?)

 

[Monkey_Business]

My last hard drive died, it was replaced under warranty, I think that the new hard drive they put in may have been a downgrade because it yields a slightly lower windows experience index. I also do not know any detailed technical specifications about it. Or the exact make/model.

 

[ehume]

I can tell you that when you are running through 42 fans to compare them, you will bless your SSD.

 

[WildW]

I boot from a 30GB OCZ Vertex (Windows 7) with all applications installed on there, and games on a separate hard disk (500GB Samsung F3). Boot time is fast, certainly, but it's not really the main benefit of the SSD.

Applications load basically instantly - which is to say, if its not instant it's less than a second. Occasionally I've tried adding shortcuts to a dozen applications to the quick launch bar and clicking along them one after the other as fast as I can. They all load before I can move the mouse to the next one along.

The weird thing is, this is NOT all down to the SSD. I used the same setup with Vista for a while, and it was not as fast. Still speedy, but not the same wow factor by any means. The superfetch type cacheing that Windows 7 does makes everything load that fast, and in my experience it doesn't feel all that much slower with a regular mechanical hard disk. I've used a laptop with a 5400rpm drive and Windows 7, and that did not feel sluggish at all either.

I would not like to go back to a spinning disk, however. SSD + Windows 7 = Hyperspeed, and I would not give it up lightly.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I bought PCs just for the sake of booting in Windows! Yeaaaaaaaaah

 

[Monkey_Business]

My computer takes 2-4 minutes to fully boot into windows vista.