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Solid state drives can boost boot time quite a bit, and there are plenty of metrics online to prove it. I suppose a bios upgrade could improve the time it takes
by frankc 16y ago
Solid state drives can boost boot time quite a bit, and there are plenty of metrics online to prove it. I suppose a bios upgrade could improve the time it takes to go from POST to the intial OS bootstrapping, but once you get to the OS loading, I don't see where the bios can make a difference? The OS load time seems to be the biggest bottleneck to me, which is where the solid state fast access times get their big wins.
- bryanlarsen 16y agoMy Ubuntu boots in 5 seconds off an SSD, but the BIOS takes 15 seconds.
- listic 16y agoOf course, we are talking about the time before the OS loading. The fact that it takes seconds to probe and initialize the hardware is totally unnecessary (see my other comment).