Introducing, the 30 second PC Boot!

Late October 2008, I changed the boot drive on my computer from a 4 year old Maxtor 80GB Mechanical PATA hard drive, to a new SATA, Single Level Cell, Solid State Disk from Transcend.

Boot times and other accesses have improved dramatically. This video shows the new boot routine, substantially reduced as primarily the result of reinstalling Windows and switching from a mechaninal HDD to a solid state flash drive.

This video has not been edited in any way.

http://www.memoryc.com/storage/solidstatedisk/transcend16gbsatassd.html

System specs:
AMD Socket 939 Opteron 180 2.4Ghz
with Thermaltake Blue Orb II cooler
MSI K8N Neo 4F nForce4 Ultra
2GB PC3200 RAM
GeForce 6800GS, PCI Express
Windows XP Pro SP3
1x Transcend 16GB SLC SSD SATA
1x Maxtor 80GB PATA
2x Western Digital 250GB SATA2
3xDVD+-RW drives
misc other add ons.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computer
• windows
• solid
• state
• disk
• SSD
• SLC
• flash
• Transcend

[xCommonViewerx]

I don't like that solid states come with extremely low storage, I'd rather have a 7200rpm 500gb than a 32gb solid state.

It's like those raptors, you have to get a 32gb 3.5 inch hard drive to get 15,000rpm, how do you run a server on that. It may be fast but it would have no storage

[seanC3i]

@xCommonViewerx

Normally you don't JUST have an SSD - you would also have a mechanical hard drive as well, then you'd decide what needed speed (put it on the SSD) and what was bulky (put on the HDD).

MLC based drives are beginning to improve (althouth it will be some time yet before I trust them) also you have the option of a "Hybrid" drive such as the Seagate MomentusXT line, which contain a mechanical hard drive and an 8GB SLC SSD cache.

[AllegroGregKovacs]

Very slow, check my video !:) 18 seconds to full XP start.

[seanC3i]

The key thing to note is firstly, the best measure is between the control handover to Windows (this rig takes a long time to go through BIOS)

My computer takes 15 seconds to do this - yours closer to 8. The actual loading of Windows is only marginally faster in your video than mine if at all.

[fibertech9]

Hi, I just ordered this SSD because it was SLC and not as expensive as the others. Thank you for this video. Make a video of opening programs and folders that are common on windows xp so that people can see that speed thanks!