Fast startup (boot) Windows 10 and SSDs

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Hi all,

I am of the belief that a) an SSD is quick enough so waiting 2-3 seconds longer to boot is OK, and b) the trade-off is you get a "clean" boot (similar to restarting) instead of recovering the kernel and other things (drivers??) from a hibernate file. Also, not writing lots of info to disk on shutdown both speeds up shutdown times and reduces space use and I/O usage on the HDD.

I was wondering what you all use with regards to "Enable Fast Startup" in Windows 7/8/8.1/10, especially when your primary/windows HDD is an SSD? I get how it works, but is it worth it with an SSD?
 
I've heard of this Fast Start-Up, but never looked into what it actually does so thanks for the info.
Where does one enable/disable this. Is it BIOS or OS?
 
I just leave it on. Never had any issues with it and worrying about writes on an SSD or HDD is pointless, they're designed for it.

RumbleBee said:
I've heard of this Fast Start-Up, but never looked into what it actually does so thanks for the info.
Where does one enable/disable this. Is it BIOS or OS?
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Power settings in the classic control panel under the "Change what power buttons do" section. It should be on by default.
 
I sometimes have issues after a long uptime (like 10 days+) which forces me to need to restart. My PC boots fast enough anyway so I have turned it off.
 
I used to chase fast startup speed. I even had a 4GB DDR1 ramdisk for booting XP quickly.

Now with Windows 10 and an NVME, I don't tweak it at all, I just press power and within 10-20 seconds, I'm at the Desktop.
 
there is a common issue with the fast start up when trying to shut down your pc... basically it wont shut down and just take you back to login prompt for windows 10.

To be honest... using an SSD ( m2. or sata ) the difference in the boot up is no negligible that unless you were sitting there with a stop watch you would never know the difference.
 
On my computers with SSD's I've turned fast boot off, this is more about saving disk space on my SSD's however.

I do have one computer that boots from a WD Black HD with fast boot enabled, and must be honest for HDD's it does improve load times.
 
JasonM said:
On my computers with SSD's I've turned fast boot off, this is more about saving disk space on my SSD's however.

I do have one computer that boots from a WD Black HD with fast boot enabled, and must be honest for HDD's it does improve load times.
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Yeah I have seen it work wonders on traditional HDDs.

I have only SSDs in my primary system, and tbh I don't notice a difference with fast boot on or off. This leads me to just "leave it alone" on my new laptop, which also has SSD.
 
I turn it off as it makes next to no difference on a SSD drive, plus you can't access the drive from Linux unless you do as it considers the drive unsafe to mount (as you effectively hibernate when shutting down). Therefore if my install got hosed for whatever reason, I wouldn't be able to use a boot stick to recover any files if it was switched on.
 
I have to have it off as it isn't compatible wirh the power saving states on my paticular motherboard. Essentially my board reads the fast startup state similiar to that of "sleep". This means thay both my mouse and an external usb powered hard drive I use for file history backups stay powered up permenantly for as long as I have fast bot enabled. If I turn it off then about 5-10 seconds after I shut down my PC the system enters it's true off state and my mouse / hdd power down.

If I could though I would leave it on and disagree with what the others are saying that on an SSD it makes no difference. Whilst my PC is starting to show it's age now I notice a significant difference with fast boot enabled compared to disabled.
 
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