Windows 8 SSD boot time

Alasdairhurst · 28 Apr 2011 at 12:09

I took a video of the boot time on my vertex 2 as it seemed insanely fast!
I thought that windows 7 loaded fast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8byLnpQg1c
most of the video is asking me to press any key to boot from the cd, and the dual boot screen.
sorry for the bad quality video though.

bledd · 28 Apr 2011 at 12:15

Christ!

Nice thumb

Alasdairhurst · 28 Apr 2011 at 12:18

Thanks for the compliment

robinbredin · 28 Apr 2011 at 13:09

Windows 8 is not even beta yet, and you don't have 3rd party software on yet, no wonder it boots up fast.

Alasdairhurst · 28 Apr 2011 at 13:21

yeah, i know that - just in comparison to when i installed windows 7 with no apps it's still a lot faster
oh and it installed in under 10 mins (no waiting for ages on "expanding features")

they still have a lot of new programs/ UI changes to make so we may see an even faster boot time if they lighten it up a bit. (imagine the speeds on the vertex 3

)

i remember when it took over an hour to install windows xp

Ryan-3 · 28 Apr 2011 at 13:26

Where did you get 8 from?

& That vid is really why I should have got an SSD, instead of a new phone, so I don't have to wait for the bloody thing

Alasdairhurst · 28 Apr 2011 at 13:35

Also, i just remembered the hybrid boot feature, which is supposed to resuce startup times. - this is WITHOUT it enabled.

i removed it from my ssd as it messed up my win 7 installation (i managed to recover it usin the windows 7 installation disk and an IDE HDD

) so i cant test the speed with it enabled on my SSD

Supernaut91 · 29 Apr 2011 at 19:39

Sick.

Greenlizard0 · 29 Apr 2011 at 20:23

That's pretty impressive. Windows for me has always been about a product for the masses that works out of the box. Win Vista/7 were pretty decent but still fairly slow. If 8 (is this 8 or was that a typo?) is that fast that's impressive.

Alasdairhurst · 29 Apr 2011 at 21:54

Well, i think plenty of people would'nt say vista was decent

, and windows 7 works more out of the box than any windows OS so far but is fairly fast and a lot faster than vista, but yeah it is Windows 8 and it is impressive! you just ned to get yourself an SSD and see the incredible speed gain over a mechanical drive

Menthis · 29 Apr 2011 at 21:55

Awesome

theheyes · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:28

Alasdairhurst said:
Well, i think plenty of people would'nt say vista was decent ,

Windows Vista was decent.

Anyway, nice boot time and it will be good to see how they've gone about doing it. However a faster boot time is way down on my list of things to improve over Windows 7 since I use standby/hibernate 95% of the time anyway.

Makhaira · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:35

In before the lock...

EdwardTeach · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:45

Alasdairhurst said:
I took a video of the boot time on my vertex 2 as it seemed insanely fast!
I thought that windows 7 loaded fast!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8byLnpQg1c
most of the video is asking me to press any key to boot from the cd, and the dual boot screen.
sorry for the bad quality video though.

Nice! How did you get windows 8?

kPATm · 29 Apr 2011 at 23:56

That is fast. I want one. I never even new Win 8 was coming so soon.

Aod · 30 Apr 2011 at 11:01

Makhaira said:
In before the lock...

I doubt this will be locked.

EdwardTeach said:
Nice! How did you get windows 8?

you can't get it legally at this time.

kPATm said:
That is fast. I want one. I never even new Win 8 was coming so soon.

Since the XP-longhorn-debacle, Microsoft are attempting to return to the "OS every three years" model.

Seeing as 7 came out in 2009, i'm fairly Confident that Windows 8 will arrive at it's scheduled time in 2012.

Dokinator · 30 Apr 2011 at 11:38

Windows 8, I cant wait to get that now

But that its pretty god damn fast :O

Burnsy2023 · 30 Apr 2011 at 11:44

My Win 7 machine with a mechanical HDD is just as fast when on standby. Why people turn their machines off is beyond me.

Aod · 1 May 2011 at 08:45

Burnsy2023 said:
My Win 7 machine with a mechanical HDD is just as fast when on standby. Why people turn their machines off is beyond me.

Agreed!

clv101 · 1 May 2011 at 09:09

Why do people care about boot time? My HTPC, my office PC, my general PC, my laptop... none of them get rebooted more than once a month. Sleep and hibernate work so well now, it's simply better not to reboot.