How Fast is Booting from an SSD?
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Booting up using a Samsung SSD drive is stupid fast. I attempted to count how long it takes to boot – and didn’t even make it to two. I’m not kidding!
SSD stands for Solid State Drive. So why go with a solid-state drive? The main advantages are improved read and seek performance, a much better battery life, and awesome durability. The price tag is, of course, really high for these right now. But that’s always the case when the newest and best comes out. SSD prices will be dropping and capacities will be increasing over time like with anything else. Even though these are pretty rare right now, they’ll become standard before too long.
We have SSD deals and discounts aplenty, too.
As you saw in this video, the boot time using one of these babies is just amazingly fast. It’s also so quiet it could scare you. We’re used to hearing our hard drives grinding away during heavy work loads… not so using one of these! It’s just – quiet. Copying files and such is a little faster than when using other types of hard drives, but that’s an area that still needs to be improved upon.
As time goes on and I continue to run my machine on the SSD drive, I’ll be sure to let you all know how things are going. Thanks to the Samsung SSD team for enabling this experience!
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- Corsair 64 GB Performance Series SSD SATA II Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-64GBG2D
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8 Comments
Peter Filias
April 20th, 2009
at 11:13am
What about other SSDs, larger ones, or cheaper ones? 775 is a lot of scratch to throw out there.
dede
April 20th, 2009
at 12:39pm
WOAH DUDE!!!! OMG!!!!
austin farley
April 20th, 2009
at 1:57pm
i wanty badly. looking at one for my asus ee pc 901
Joe G.
April 20th, 2009
at 2:49pm
SS drives are no doubt fast, but I’ve read that single layer cell (SLC) SSDs are even faster and more reliable than multi layer cell (MLC) SSDs. Considering the samsung pb22j is a MLC SSD, do you think that 2 second bootup would be even shorter with a SLC drive, chris?
Kailie Quinn
April 20th, 2009
at 3:46pm
What exactly were you booting?
I currently have four of them in raid 0, and it takes about 3 seconds on vista, almost instant on for suse, and about 3 for OS X.
Kaelig
April 20th, 2009
at 5:01pm
Mount your ssd volumes with noatime :
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=363352&postcount=41
Every time the system accesses a file, it won’t record its access time -> “no access time” (noatime)
You’ll gain some reactivity AND maybe save some drive lifetime :)
Markus Zeller
April 20th, 2009
at 9:31pm
The speed is amazing, but what about the longtime life?
Maks
April 24th, 2009
at 12:49pm
No doubt SSD will last longer,no moving parts.
The only isuue I see would be the heat which is the common enemy of every PC hardware.