Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

[wazza300]

Just for fun post your pc's boot up times using 'Bootracer' and 'Boot Time'

Makesure you close all running programs in the desktop like Msn ect,then click on the program and reboot,when running bootrace look in settings and makesure you untick these two boxes or else your result scores will disappear after so many seconds

Download from here

Boot time in Vista,7 by ~mrkristins on deviantART Boot Time

http://www.greatis.com/bootrace_free_setup.MSI Bootracer

Ill start off with my results using Ahci and a Samsung F3 1tb





Who will be a Hare? and Who will be a Tortoise

[Acebmxer]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!



24/7 21x220 boot time.

[mm67]

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24/7 settings, Vertex 2 in AHCI mode

[Darkje]

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I've done 1 sec better, but this is with a full install + av (only disabled my tv card coz. it takes 10-15 sec extra ;))
Best reboot time was 37sec.

Vertex2, controller in raid mode.

edit: bet I'm gonne shave a few more secs if I use ahci only... imaging ssd now and off trying...

edit2: well I did a fresh install of w7 in ahci mode, and my boots did get little better... especially the reboot time improved with the controller in ahci mode and no other hdd attached, racer improved less but that seems logical as the racer just measures the windows load times it was bound to be about the same.



edit3: It seems I used a slightly different reboot time script, but the result is the same I guess...
script used:

usage: remove this line and save-as "reboot-timer.vbs"

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next
Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Reboot-Time\"
KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Reboot-Time"
AppName = "ReBoot-Time"
Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
if Result = "" then
MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0 
else
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
MsgBox "Your computer reboots in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
end if
wscript.Quit

[wazza300]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

did you raid your single ssd before? are they worth buying the ssd drives?

[Darkje]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

I used the SSD as a single drive both times but on the first try the ICH controller was in raid mode as I have an array. The Second attempt I disconnected all harddisks, put the controller in AHCI mode and the SSD on port0 with a fresh w7 install.

That's why 8sec was won on the reboot times.

I did do benches on the raid0 array too in it's prime days, it was able to produce like high 30's, so add another 20 or so for bios initialsation and reboot time would have been close to 1 minute.

If it's worth it... well I feel it's a mixed bag ... raid0 was already pretty quick I guess, ssd made it quicker, but not to the extend I'd say well worth it just for the 30sec at boottime. The real profit of running one is imo in the opening of apps and just the everyday use. It makes everything feel a bit more responsive and loadtimes of office and grapics programs improves dramatically...

[wazza300]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

does an ssd improve internet explorer? as in loading websites ect? i was thinking of buying a vertex 2e but the 60gb model,i was looking at the 50gb revodrive but i found two vertex2 e's in raid are faster

[jojodancer]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

24/7 regular use

no cheating = all programs are on (virus protection, firewall, etc)

[Darkje]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

Yes, apps loading faster... I'm ff user but suppose it will work on certain aspects of ie also... ssd access time is the main advantage and it's also a lot better than a hdd handling multi-threaded I/O's, so depending on how much actually needs to be loaded (as opposed to cached in mem) it will improve.

I think you choice for 60gb is right, because it's enough for os drive. From my 120 I'm using about 25 for w7+office+ps-cs5 and many other apps, but I did store some large and seldom referenced stuff on hdd using hardlinks. Don't get me wrong 120 is okay ;) but 60 would have done too. Also over provisioned down to 100GiB os partition leaving like 11gb unused, it seems the ssd likes a bit of extra space to shift around stuff when it's trimming.

With the vertex one thing you have to be aware of is how the sandforce controller works, otherwise the specs could be a bit deceptive, in the sense that writes appear inflated. With random uncompressable data it's more like 80-100mb/s write, and to be fair, most stuff we touch these days already has some sort of compression, like jpg, zips, installers even office'10 docx...

Maybe it's a good idea to first get one and get familiar with it, you can add a second one later. Putting them in raid you will lose trim, but vertex2 have some sort of garbage collection too it seems, so even without trim they should stay optimized.

edit:
Oh one more thing... intel is comming up with it's 3rd gen ssd shortly, so that maybe worth waiting for atm.

[dan0]

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[Darkje]

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24/7 regular use

no cheating = all programs are on (virus protection, firewall, etc)

[IMGAGE]

Yeah, thats about what I get at the ssd with fully loaded OS too ... and no tweaks or cheats except disable tv-card from device manager, ich controller in raid mode, intel drivers.:

[wazza300]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

Yes, apps loading faster... I'm ff user but suppose it will work on certain aspects of ie also... ssd access time is the main advantage and it's also a lot better than a hdd handling multi-threaded I/O's, so depending on how much actually needs to be loaded (as opposed to cached in mem) it will improve.

I think you choice for 60gb is right, because it's enough for os drive. From my 120 I'm using about 25 for w7+office+ps-cs5 and many other apps, but I did store some large and seldom referenced stuff on hdd using hardlinks. Don't get me wrong 120 is okay ;) but 60 would have done too. Also over provisioned down to 100GiB os partition leaving like 11gb unused, it seems the ssd likes a bit of extra space to shift around stuff when it's trimming.

With the vertex one thing you have to be aware of is how the sandforce controller works, otherwise the specs could be a bit deceptive, in the sense that writes appear inflated. With random uncompressable data it's more like 80-100mb/s write, and to be fair, most stuff we touch these days already has some sort of compression, like jpg, zips, installers even office'10 docx...

Maybe it's a good idea to first get one and get familiar with it, you can add a second one later. Putting them in raid you will lose trim, but vertex2 have some sort of garbage collection too it seems, so even without trim they should stay optimized.

edit:
Oh one more thing... intel is comming up with it's 3rd gen ssd shortly, so that maybe worth waiting for atm.

[Darkje]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

Yes, I know that feeling, I saved up when they came out and decided I would get on once the price passed below 200euro... that happened about 8 weeks ago...

My advice would be to get just a single 60gb one, idf you can't resist, and play with it. see if it suits your read/write pattern. It will load/respond faster than any raid even with the lower seqential writes, seq.reads will be quite similar (to r0) and access time like 0.1ms. Random access will also get a very nice boost.
Raid0 with ssd's I'm not too sure about, ofcourse you will gain sequential speed but access time won't get better, and that seems to be the main benefit.

[jojodancer]

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wazza300, get two Vertex2 60gb in RAID O and you will have lots of fun. Prices are getting down so drastically in recent weeks. Or you can get two Vertex2 120gb as well.

Don't wait for the new stuff. They just keep coming and you will end up not buying any

My 24/7 SSD performance

[Darkje]

Re: Post Your Boot Up Times !!!!

whoot 4x :D nice setup!!!
so what's your boottime on that 4x array? gained any from single?

and atto, looks impressive, but it does not mirror 24/7 performance, unless you're reading/writing zero's 24/7 ... it's more a measure of how efficient the sf controller can compress that type of data, I feel. Guess with cdm or assd it will be like 350-400 (seq write of random data)?