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.

Alasdairhurst · 28 Apr 2011 at 12:18

Thanks for the compliment

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

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

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

Alasdairhurst · 1 May 2011 at 12:19

chaosdestro0 said:
Right, this post makes me believe that Hibernate saves the current memory to the disk. Doesn't that mean that you could disconnect the power and it would be a win win?

Yes that is correct.
The hibernation file takes up about as much space as you have RAM on the hard drive, so it doesn't work as well with low capacity SSD's and lots of RAM.