[dba-Tech] SSHD boot disk

I don't know, but I'll ask. Maybe he's running DOS :)
A.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Dan Waters <df.waters at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Art,
>
> I have a 120 Gb SSD I'm using as a boot disk.  Boot up time is 1:06 every
> time.  If I had a new i7-2600K that was overclocked, it could be quite a
> bit
> faster.  But 10 seconds from off to ready?  I wonder how that happens.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 8:57 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] SSHD boot disk
>
> Last night a friend of mine told me about a friend of his, who has put
> together a computer for use by him and his wife. It's got a pair of 2TB
> hard
> disks and more interestingly, a solid state hard disk that he has set up to
> be the boot disk. From a switched-off machine to the whole OS loaded and
> ready to go, elapsed time 10 seconds! Not quite "instant-on" but pretty
> darned close.
>
> I don't have any SSHDs but I do have a couple of 16GB memory sticks. Has
> anyone set up one of those to be the boot disk? And if so, what was the
> bootup time?
>
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