Does less free space increase boot time?

[Guest]

Hey guys,

I'm currently choosing components for a new pc and I wondered if the boot time increases if software is on the drive with the OS. Does the system loads every file on the boot drive or only the os files?

[VoyexTech]

Well if iflt has to boot programs that star up with windows off the boot drive that will slow it down. But if that is not happening such as having videos stored on the drive as long as there is 10 free gb it should be fine but too little space is bad for boot times yes

[Termiux]

Assuming that disc is your boot drive, YES and it does it for both hard drives (spinning discs) and for SSD's although for different reasons. 

 

My rule of thumb is to have at least 10% of available disc space on my boot drives, but in reality I keep my booting ssd's usually with at least 30% free space. Anything below that and I take a look to my fil0es and programs to make some more space. If you do this you should be fine.

 

If your using an SSD also remember to over provision the ssd as required. Most SSDs come with a software that lets you tweak them, see SMART(diagnostic) numbers and even update firmware. I have Samsung and OCZ ssds and both have their own software. The software also ask you to reserve around 10% of space for over provisioning which helps speed up the ssd, failing do to this will hurt performance. Note that his separate from whatever free space you have on disk.

[Guest]

55 minutes ago, Termiux said:

Assuming that disc is your boot drive, YES and it does it for both hard drives (spinning discs) and for SSD's although for different reasons. 

 

My rule of thumb is to have at least 10% of available disc space on my boot drives, but in reality I keep my booting ssd's usually with at least 30% free space. Anything below that and I take a look to my fil0es and programs to make some more space. If you do this you should be fine.

 

If your using an SSD also remember to over provision the ssd as required. Most SSDs come with a software that lets you tweak them, see SMART(diagnostic) numbers and even update firmware. I have Samsung and OCZ ssds and both have their own software. The software also ask you to reserve around 10% of space for over provisioning which helps speed up the ssd, failing do to this will hurt performance. Note that his separate from whatever free space you have on disk.

I'm not really advanced in the pcmr. When you turn on your PC which files are loaded?