ReBoot Time

zrtom said:

Okay, I read the AnandTech article on SSDs AnandTech: The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ and it got my curiosity going. At least enough to find out that Newegg has the 30GB OCZ Vertex on sale. So I gets me one with the 1275 firmware and throw it in an XPS M1330 and install build 7068 x64. Good GOD man, it's on the next task before I think of what the next task is going to be! ....LOL
This is just after installing. Nothing Disabled. Subsequent reboots have been getting a little faster.

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Wow

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu72oWLeQ78"]YouTube - Phenom II 940 restart time, Windows 7 build 7000[/ame]


40 seconds.....what's the record?

I wonder how much improvement there still is with an SSD drive like Intel's X25-M for example.

Cov said:

I wonder how much improvement there still is with an SSD drive like Intel's X25-M for example.

The article I referred-to:
AnandTech: The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ

really is a comparison of just that, how the "other" drives measure up to the Intel Gold Standard. I guess what got me to try the OCZ Vertex is that the Vertex is the closest one out there at this point in time. And the follow-up article revealed that the new firmware put it even closer. I couldn't resist when I saw them on sale.
Tom

surprising.. I thought it would be a lot longer.

Including 14 digit password login

75 seconds for me

I did a comparison on a Dell laptop that had Vista... then upgraded it to windows 7 and ran the Restart script on both'

Vista: 209 sec
7 : 122 sec

the laptop only has a 1.6ghz processor and 2GB ram so I wasnt expecting anything under 100. I was still floored with the difference!