On 10/04/2018 11:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
On 08/04/2018 23:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Managed to trip the workshop breaker today which crashed out the old PC
running Win7.

When I restarted it, it said 'resuming Windows' and got to the desktop far
quicker than normal. Why?

The PC was already in a low power hibernate mode with session saved to
disk when the breaker went.

If the PC had been active when the power went off suddenly then it would
have needed to rebuild some files and take an age or two to do it.

They boot even faster if you swap spinning rust for solid state.

It has got an SSD. Can't say it is noticeably faster.

Something is wrong if it isn't at least a factor of 2 faster and
normally nearly an order of magnitude faster (depending on how extensive
your default power up BIOS checks are). Some BIOSes these days offer a
save working ram image to SSD option during controlled shutdown so that
you can quite literally restart from exactly where you were before.

My SSD practically maxes out a 6G SATA link whereas my spinning rust
disk barely scrapes past 10% of the bandwidth of a 3G SATA.

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Regards,
Martin Brown