SSDs are expensive considering the amount of space you get. If 60GB is all you need then, yeah, $100-150 can get you one of those. I however need at least 120-150GB to feel comfortable.
Jack also hit the nail on the head. Right now my computer is multi-purpose, has games, photoshop, firefox, etc. on it. So I take a bit longer to boot. I bet getting a fresh install of 7 would drop my time down 20s or so.
some of the 2TB drives are pushing 100MB/s read/write speeds which is close to the low end SSD’s. take 4 2TB drives, 2 in raid 0 and raid 1 w/ the other 2 in raid 0 and you’ve got a pretty badass setup with tons of storage space and a full backup.
29 mbp
and like several hundred dollars in hard drives…
Asus netbook pcie ssd. Windows 7 ultimate. About 40 seconds.
I’m uploading my video to youtube now. it was quite a bit longer than i had hoped for. alot of time was just waiting for the motherboard to P.O.S.T. stupid X58.
I messed around with some settings in the BIOS to get it quicker…If I can make a video later I will I might do a clean install of Windows 7
Wow that was close to 2 mins…
And generally anything in RAID 0 increases latency without a good controller, increasing boot times. Along with the additional boot wait generally associated with RAID. You need to clean those SSDs, reinstall windows, and optimize your BIOS.
I know, I really need to install win 7 on this thing, and keep more of my stuff on my external raid. with a clean install it’s much faster, but it works so I’m not going to mess with it for now. but notice the post beep didn’t even happen until :35? that’s just x58 boards… idk why but every one i’ve tried does this.
Youre not going to be able to do much about the long post time, but its still slow afterwards. You need to have TRIM, disable hardware you dont need in the BIOS, and killing RAID would probably help as well.
You shouldnt have a issue getting the boot times to 10-15 seconds after it posts…
This is about 21 seconds. And its on a nearly full SSD without TRIM, 2-3 year old OS install, 256bit AES encryption. Of course, its a different OS…
believe me it’s even slower without raid 0, and i get an acces time of .01 milliseconds with or without raid on. Vista doesn’t support trim, and you can’t use trim in raid, so no go there. And I already did the other tweaks and I’m uploading a video now.
Edit: macs boot alot faster than PC’s you can’t really compare the boot times.
here’s after some tweaks
Gl@re, thanks. You make me feel better about my boot times… X58 here as well.
my ubuntu netbook just booted in 45 seconds, 50 to google chrome up and running
My computer is always on. I never even use sleep mode, etc. and I’ve been doing that for years. The last time I did a hard re-start was at least 6 months ago.
crap you guys got me thinking about my hard drive performance, so I updated my ssds’ firmware, and i forgot your supposed to back up first fml. now i have to re download all my games.
Raid is no replacement for backups.
:tup:
In a network environment…absolutely not, I agree. For people who want to backup pictures of their cat fuffy, I guess I can see it. I personally would never use RAID in a backup scenario. Even a RAID backup is better than the people who move the original to a USB drive and call it a backup.
I would say that moving it to a USB drive is better than raid. a virus could wipe out your data on a raid array way easier. also the USB stick usually isn’t plugged in all the time, meaning it’s less susceptible to a power surge.