When your PC boots, how much data is being accessed from the HD?

over 9000....

theres no way to tell? and it will depend on how many process/apps load on startup and what your AV is doing
 
if you only intrested in boot times and wether SSD is worth it or whatever then i just found and ran this program

windows7 on a samsung f3 500gb drive
avast AV , malwarebytes , and a few other startup programs
time to desktop is calculated once everything is loaded and low cpu usage
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kind of meant, if the pagefile use in windows is say 1.5gb, does that mean boot up took the time it did as it had to load 1.5gb?

or what's stopping it being instant on/off like a PDA?
 
It's probably around about the 200-250 megabtye mark.

The thing stopping it from being on/off like a PDA is that it is far, far more complex. A PDA has probably got most of it's program stored in ROM whereas Windows had to load itself into RAM. You've also got all kinds of initialization going on which takes time as well.
 
3t3P said:
kind of meant, if the pagefile use in windows is say 1.5gb, does that mean boot up took the time it did as it had to load 1.5gb?

or what's stopping it being instant on/off like a PDA?
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I thought page file held on to what it had last time it doesn't regenerate every time you boot afaik.

PDAs are near instant because they're not loading from mechanical drives, Solid State Drives have come a long way to improving things for computer users. You also have to consider Windows is infinitely bigger and more complex than anything you'll find on a phone or PDA so you have to allow a bit of time for that as well.
 
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