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?

 

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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.

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.