even that normal hdd booted up inlike 8 secs wtf ? mine takes 30 secs even tho i just got a new sata2 16mb pr hdd, any tips for faster startup/load times guys ? like tweaks etc ?
Faster RPM disks maybe? I split my system up hugely on disks...
Why? Rhetorical question there!
Answer - Simply because they are the SLOWEST thing by way of comparison to your CPU, GPU, & RAM! That said, splitting up tasks most SINGLE disk systems handle on 1 disk, across 2 or even 3 or more of them WILL speed things up!
(Especially today on systems w/ HDD controllers & busses that handle concurrent accesses FAR better than older ones did, that for example, made the HDD bus only act as fast as the SLOWEST disk, which is no longer true thank goodness!)
APK 1st bootdrive disk = My main disk is OS & Programs, that's LARGELY it!
APK 2nd data/downloads disk = DATA storage & downloads on yet another here!
APK SSD = & on yet another (the SSD)...
PARTITION #1: Here, I even moved my logging on apps & event logs & more from the OS + apps to my SSD + temp ops & browser caches onto its 2nd partition (
Formatted as NTFS, so I can COMPRESS the data on it RAM no less, & for GOOD reason: It's very fast, imo faster on loads because it is compressed in fact - today's CPU's are SO fast, the decompression process in SYSTEM RAM is offset by loading a TINIER file from an HDD or SSD even)
&
PARTITION #2: FAT 1st partition for my pagefile.sys (so I can make it larger, not losing 20% of the disk to MFT$ & metadata tables)!
(Stuff like browser caches & temp ops as well, & it 'caught on' world wide when I wrote about it in the 1st original "NT OS Tuning Guide" back in 1997-1998 on NTCompatible.com on std. HDD's (I say oldest, because to date? I have not seen or found one older than it was))!
However, the same principal applied, & excelled @ exceeding HDD's on, on SSD's like these as well when I did a write up on this for:
- @ EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com
- For CENATEK, in a review of the Solid-State disk I use now (page is down now, & ONLY recently, & the webmaster that hosted the page which CENATEK used to feature on their FRONT PAGE, even over ones from magazines in this field, was very ill, & an older gent - I hope he's ok: He has not answered my email about this)
However, since they're either gone OR down now? Well, if you'd like to verify those, write all 3 sites/companies, they will verify these accounts.
(I would demand the same myself actually, if I doubted someone, & why I mention it).
* The "System Optimization" sticky thread in the GENERAL SOFTWARE SECTION will help you even more, & not cost you a dime...
See, the principles in it are sound, & one of the VERY THINGS folks said in it that will apply to YOU?
FASTER BOOTUP TIMES!
Speed USUALLY costs MONEY... but, not in this case. Take what YOU have, & make it better, using fairly simple & easy to implement tricks + a small amount of YOUR time.
APK
P.S.=> Trimming off loading services you don't need, or drivers even, as well as various registry hacks boost that ALL TO HIGH HECK, & make it better! apk