On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 13:49:50 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
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.

Well, with my laptop when I first got it (thanks Mr Rumm) and fitted the
SSD, it was extremely fast to boot. But with normal use and all the
Windows updates it has slowed down considerably.

This workshop PC is a lot older, but running the same OS. Processor is an
Athlon 64 3500+ 2.21GHz. And can't say the boot time improved noticeably
when fitting the SSD. Although it has another HD too, with XP on it.


Years ago, well the early 2000s I heard that some buses would only run at the speed of the slowest device, so if you had a CD/DVD drive in the same chain (IDE) then you're HDs would run at the same speed as the CD drive so not very fast.