[dba-Tech] SSHD boot disk

Our Windows 7 laptops (Lenovo t420) with SSDs boot to usable in under 30 seconds when they're not connected to the network... on the network, there's all sorts of login scripts and things to go through, but they're still pretty quick.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: 13 January 2012 15:28
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [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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