Linus' 2015 rig boots in 45s with an Intel 750 PCI-E SSD?

[ANewFace]

Just watched @LinusTech 's 2015 rig update, and he replaced his Corsair SSD RAID array with an Intel 750 series PCI-E 1.2TB SSD, the fastest consumer SSD in existence. His old RAID array booted in 2min, his new 750 series SSD booted in 45s, and he was happy with this. But 45s is crap for a SSD. My 840 evo boots me up in about 15s. Now I know that his SSD has more stuff on it then mine, but SSDs don't really slow down much when they start to fill up, so how does an SSD that's over 4 times faster then mine, boot 3 times slower?

[Guest MinimalEffort]

I think RAID slows boot times and I think PCI may have something similar. Not sure though, I also wondered

[Firearm2112]

What mobo does he have? maybe slower PCI speed? is it on a new windows install? i havent seen the video yet idk

[daniellearmouth]

My 850 EVO boots in around that time......though that may be taking into account it's running Windows 7 (for now) and is on hardware that kinda slows it down as far as booting's concerned.

[ANewFace]

What mobo does he have? maybe slower PCI speed? is it on a new windows install? i havent seen the video yet idk

Rampage V Exreame. That's not the problem

[Speedbird]

Just watched @LinusTech 's 2015 rig update, and he replaced his Corsair SSD RAID array with an Intel 750 series PCI-E 1.2TB SSD, the fastest consumer SSD in existence. His old RAID array booted in 2min, his new 750 series SSD booted in 45s, and he was happy with this. But 45s is crap for a SSD. My 840 evo boots me up in about 15s. Now I know that his SSD has more stuff on it then mine, but SSDs don't really slow down much when they start to fill up, so how does an SSD that's over 4 times faster then mine, boot 3 times slower?

He obviously installed it in CSM compatibility mode, and Windows can't take advantage of UEFI's improved startup capabilities. He also booted up from a hybrid shutdown, which I have not really tried on SSDs. I'm not sure if it can slow down boot time.

[ManOfGold93]

I was wondering the same thing, he has no raid controller on there anymore- mine boots in under 45s as well

I would assume that it wouldnt be his motherboard since he could clearly swap it if he pleased

[79wjd]

My 850 EVO boots in around that time......though that may be taking into account it's running Windows 7 (for now) and is on hardware that kinda slows it down as far as booting's concerned.

yeah, that's pretty slow...my computer from powered off to up in windows is about 20 seconds with a 256gb Crucial M4. 

[AMICLG]

It has to initialize the boot device through the PCI-E slot on the motherboard. Something gaming branded boards don't handle very quickly, If he had the X99-WS it would be faster.

[ANewFace]

I was wondering the same thing, he has no raid controller on there anymore- mine boots in under 45s as well

I would assume that it wouldnt be his motherboard since he could clearly swap it if he pleased

He has a Rampage V Extreame, one of the best boards you can get

[Agent181]

First sloooooooow down,

He has a pci ssd fastest average is 25 seconds

Second it's windows 10 technical preview so expected, don't overreact about a small thing,

Third it's fresh install of the os so there is no fast startup or optimization done

So shhhhhhhhhhh

[darkblitzrc]

my 850 evo boots in like 5-10 secs im just amazed at this thing

[Samsterstorm]

I did think it was slow! My Hyper-X 3k 120gb SSD boot in 8s max!!!! Windows 8.1............. Maybe 10 does not boot very well

[don_svetlio]

My 5400 RPM HDD boots in 11 seconds. No need to buy expensive SSDs

[Kyuubixchidori]

Just watched @LinusTech 's 2015 rig update, and he replaced his Corsair SSD RAID array with an Intel 750 series PCI-E 1.2TB SSD, the fastest consumer SSD in existence. His old RAID array booted in 2min, his new 750 series SSD booted in 45s, and he was happy with this. But 45s is crap for a SSD. My 840 evo boots me up in about 15s. Now I know that his SSD has more stuff on it then mine, but SSDs don't really slow down much when they start to fill up, so how does an SSD that's over 4 times faster then mine, boot 3 times slower?

Yes, his boot is way slower. same reason why you if you raid 0 ssds for a boot drive, it will take longer to boot, even though you have therotically twice the speed. extra hardware on the mobo have to start up. the ssd is much faster then one by sata, but simply the drivers and the hardware on the drive controller has to wake up. 

 

once its one though, the speed of his pci ssd will destroy storage lol

[PineappleHolidays]

Just watched @LinusTech 's 2015 rig update, and he replaced his Corsair SSD RAID array with an Intel 750 series PCI-E 1.2TB SSD, the fastest consumer SSD in existence. His old RAID array booted in 2min, his new 750 series SSD booted in 45s, and he was happy with this. But 45s is crap for a SSD. My 840 evo boots me up in about 15s. Now I know that his SSD has more stuff on it then mine, but SSDs don't really slow down much when they start to fill up, so how does an SSD that's over 4 times faster then mine, boot 3 times slower?

I know,

my ssd boots in about the same time as yours, and I run windows 7, he must have something up ?

[GlassBomb]

He has a bunch of stuff in his system that needs to in initialize. BIOS, Lots of ram, graphics card, sound card, network card, PCIe SSD. All of these stuff take a bit of time.

 

My personal rig takes about 30-35 seconds to fully boot up from a cold boot.

[ANewFace]

My 5400 RPM HDD boots in 11 seconds. No need to buy expensive SSDs

[don_svetlio]

-snip

 

 

Nope, I kid you not.

[ANewFace]

Nope, I kid you not.

Vid or it didn't happed

[don_svetlio]

Vid or it didn't happed

Eh, will do one tomorrow. Too lazy to go charge my phone wait for it to get to 15% so it will let me use the camera, shoot a vid, go get a cable (cat ate mine ._.) and upload.