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Does an empty HDD slow down SSD boot time?

columbusohio
By columbusohio
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well if the SATA controller needs to take a little extra time to initiate the HDD aswell i guess you could end up with marginally slower boots? thats about it unless as already said, some boot stuff are on the HDD

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Yes at varying degree, all depending on the HDD.

The general rule is the more hardware you have, the more time it takes. These can be nano seconds to several second.

 

Some components needs to "boot" themselves up (example: your graphics card. That is why you need to wait several seconds before the image shows on the displays. Intel graphic solutions are super fast.. Nvidia/AMD... well graphic card manufacture don't care. No reviewer checks for that).

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