Booting from Intel X25-E SSD 32 GByte (15 sec)

Ubuntu Linux is being booted from an Intel X25-E server SSD. You'll also recognise that before the actual file accesses are initiated the operating system is scanning for other hardware. The actual boot-time is nearly under 10 seconds. So compared to the other movy where I booted the same system with a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus you'll see an absoluty staggering performance increase!

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Science & Technology

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• Booting
• from
• Intel
• X25-E
• SSD
• 32
• GByte
• (15
• sec)

[wwwOCAHOLICch]

As mentioned in the title the drive is an Intel X25-E SSD. As a mainboard I used a Gigabyte X38, as CPU a Xeon 3060 and two gig of Corsair 9136 Dominator memory.

[wwwOCAHOLICch]

I put a second vid online with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 6 160 GByte Harddrive. My point is that I want to show how fast an SSD is compared to a standard hard drive. I don't want to cheat. Eventually the title is no very appropriate but I didn't have a better idea for it.

[SLOBoe]

That boot time looked pretty slow. Ubuntu needs a lot of help.

[halo2pc]

You are aware, that your remark was bs, right ?

[TheShanebuchman]

tobad linux doesnt run most games lol but you can be all like LINUX IS SO MUCH BETTER i agree but wont use it untill they can support almost all software

[darthirakli]

@SLOBoe Very true. The good news is that they substantially improved Ubuntu boot time in latest releases (10.04 and 10.10).

[p1703]

@darthirakli I don't think so. Maybe it depends on hardware, but using an Intel X-25M SSD on my two notebooks, 10.04 boots at about the same speed as 9.10 (at least Kubuntu is not faster than before - about 23sec.)

[Crevox]

DUDE THATS MY MONITOR

[ka17rim]

i love ubuntu but i have not enough money to buy it :(



[darthirakli]

It would be interesting to see the same test done with Ubuntu 10.04, because 10.04 boots much faster than 9.10.

[SLOBoe]

@halo2pc :) see reply below.

[SLOBoe]

I'm pretty sure I was being tongue-in-cheek when I posted this, however, I was around in the days when you turned on your Radio Shack TRS-80 or Apple II and it said "Ready>" instantly. Those machines had 2 MHz processors.

I'm running a pair of X25-E's (RAID 0) and boot Win 7 in about the same time as your Ubuntu video (discounting the BIOS delays). Intel i965 X58 6 GB. Good video. -Kevin

[p1703]

@SLOBoe: In fact, that was not complete boot time that starts with grub and ends on a ready desktop and an idle cpu. Watch my own video booting Kubuntu (+KDE) within 20 seconds on a X25-M SSD. Gnome takes about 17 seconds on my machine. Windows 7 takes more than one minute until the cpu idles.

[p1703]

@wwasucks: Win7 overwrites Grub so that you cannot boot any installed Linux anymore - without confirmation. There was a bug recently in Karmic beta or RC that did not recognize Win7 correctly. That was fixes some days later, but before final release. If you install a beta or RC and you don't know what you do, you should better use Windows!

BTW: Ubuntu needs no drivers (they are included in the kernel what makes installation very easy...) and drivers are never for any software...