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Offline Phaedrus2129

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Windows boot times?
« on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 22:39:40 »
My fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 on an OCZ Agility 60GB SSD boots up in... 8 seconds. POST actually takes longer than boot. My old Vista install on a WD Caviar Black took about 30 seconds to fully load.


Microsoft Windows' systems boot up in, what, a day and a half? ;)
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Offline Brian8bit

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 26 January 2011, 22:50:44 »
S'all about the Pentiums baby.
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Offline killy

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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 00:02:18 »
OCZ Vertex 60 gb - about 10 seconds.
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Offline EverythingIBM

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 02:30:58 »
Actually my windows 9x computers boot up real quickly.

The BIOS in some of my workstations take forever. IBM loves making the BIOS of any computer very long with lots of various diagnostic things that pop up and tickle you.
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 03:57:55 »
yea same here with ssd's my raided vertex takes longer to POST (the raid check) than booting up.
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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 05:49:18 »
I think POST is dominant here. Ye olde P2B-D isn't a quick booter, and I have a Promise Ultra100TX2 that takes another couple of seconds to scan the drives. Then it's another 10 or 20 seconds for the system to come out of hibernation (usually). Booting from scratch isn't too slow either, that's not Win2k after all.
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Offline instantkamera

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 07:00:17 »
Not winders, but my arch install on my new system takes 6-7 seconds from boot loader kernel selection to login. Another 3 seconds to fully load X + XFCE(I dont use a display manager). I dont count POST, since largely, it is what it is, not much I can do.
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Offline Daniel Beaver

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 07:15:10 »
1:23. No fancy SSD's in my end.

Incidentally, this is a good way of accurately measuring boot times.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 07:33:19 »
My laptop boots to a usable desktop in about 30 seconds (Windows 7 Pro x64) including POST, system password and Windows logon.  I have a 320 GB WD Scorpio Black.  For a regular, laptop HDD, it's a beast.  I also think Windows 7 does a better job of giving you a usable desktop while it processes in the background.  Our standard, corporate image takes about 5 minutes to boot (Windows XP Pro) from a fresh image on my laptop (using a POS Hitachi 60 GB HDD).  The corporate image includes some heavy-duty data encryption that slows everything down and makes the laptop all but unusable.
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Offline firestorm

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 07:48:32 »
Quote from: itlnstln;285651
My laptop boots to a usable desktop in about 30 seconds (Windows 7 Pro x64) including POST, system password and Windows logon.

I think that's a very valid and important distinction.  I've used plenty of machines that present a desktop quickly, but remain virtually unusable for some time after that.  That was one of the things that took our users the longest to acclimate to with Windows XP.  I'd almost time it to the point when the first app can be started.

I haven't timed any of my current systems, but I can say that our new computer (Core i7 870) at home boots about 30x faster than the old P4 XP system.  It's plenty fast for us.
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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 08:03:28 »
My Gateway2000 takes about a minute to fully  start up  into MS-DOS.
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Offline Daniel Beaver

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 10:18:44 »
My Windows 7 setup may take 1:23 to start up, but my Windows 98 install on the same screen boots instantly (POST to desktop in under a second). Funny thing is, my Windows 98 install offers basically the same features as Windows 7. Progress?
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Offline NAVIWORLDINC

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 12:32:42 »
About 12 Seconds. AMD X4 955BE @ 3.5ghz/1.269v, DDR2 800@ 4-4-4-12, Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB, Windows 7 x64. Usable desktop in about 22 seconds.
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Offline godly_music

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 13:55:24 »
14 seconds POST and then 16 seconds to finish loading the login prompt. My main drive is a refurbished WD5000AAKS which is decent, I guess, but I would warn anyone not to trust that WD Blue lineup.
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Offline Mercen_505

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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 14:56:59 »
Going from memory, I'd say ~12 seconds after POST. OCZ Vertex for OS, Seagate for... everything else.
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Offline EverythingIBM

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 27 January 2011, 19:40:13 »
Quote from: Mercen_505;285899
Going from memory, I'd say ~12 seconds after POST. OCZ Vertex for OS, Seagate for... everything else.


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