Silicon Lottery

[YashhSahni]

Hi every1 

 

So I bought a daily driver laptop and has a 8250u and 8GB ram. The storage is an 5400rpm toshiba hdd

 

But it boots up quite quickly compared to other hdd. 

 

so is it possible that like cpu gpu is there a silicon lottery even in spinning media

 

 

 

[Levent]

Yes and no. This due to Windows 8 and above feature called Fast Startup.

[RollinLower]

everything that gets produced has a certain area of variation within the acceptable parameters for performance. so yes, even HDD's could vary a little unit to unit, but not enough to notice it on something like boot times.

[SupaKomputa]

31 minutes ago, YashhSahni said:

so is it possible that like cpu gpu is there a silicon lottery even in spinning media

Yes, but on normal usage you won't even notice it, it will be noticable when you overclock it.

If you just got this laptop, first thing you do is add a m.2 ssd.

The difference is night and day, i suggest doing so asap.