Comments on: How Fast is Booting from an SSD?

By: Maks

Maks — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:49:17 +0000

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.

By: Markus Zeller

Markus Zeller — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:31:25 +0000

The speed is amazing, but what about the longtime life?

By: Kaelig

Kaelig — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:01:40 +0000

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 :)

By: Kailie Quinn

Kailie Quinn — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:46:12 +0000

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.

By: Joe G.

Joe G. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:49:00 +0000

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?

By: austin farley

austin farley — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:57:36 +0000

i wanty badly. looking at one for my asus ee pc 901

By: dede

dede — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:39:36 +0000

WOAH DUDE!!!! OMG!!!!

By: Peter Filias

Peter Filias — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:13:45 +0000

What about other SSDs, larger ones, or cheaper ones? 775 is a lot of scratch to throw out there.