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More interesting question to me is why the hell some firmware boots take so long now. I know laptops from years ago much, much faster than what I have now, whic
by mehrdadn 7y ago
More interesting question to me is why the hell some firmware boots take so long now. I know laptops from years ago much, much faster than what I have now, which is otherwise much faster than them. And the firmware initialization times for some servers I've seen seem completely obscene (on the order of minutes).
- aardvarklegend 7y agoSurprisingly power is a huge factor. Spinning up 48/96 drives on boot can surge beyond what power supplies could handle, so things supported staggered spin ups. This allowed huge banks of drives to start without blowing a power supply, but you don’t know how many drives or if staggered spin up is enabled until it times out. This was a huge boot delay for servers.
- mehrdadn 7y agoThat's interesting to note, but I'm just talking about computers with 1 drive connected to them. Both for the servers and the laptops. In fact the older (faster) laptop had both a DVD and an HDD, whereas the newer one just has an SSD...
- gingabriska 7y agoToday we have to make things hack proof, noob proof and lots of proofing adds more complexity, cost and lowers speed.
- mehrdadn 7y agoI don't think this is it. I haven't tried with many machines but I don't think current machines are all generally slow with firmware, just some of them. The part that baffles me is that the slowness is on the faster ones.
- scarejunba 7y agoProbably because no one turns anything off anymore so the selection pressure is gone.
- gambiting 7y agoSo I'm not so sure about that. When I complained recently about sleep issues on my windows 10 desktop I was met with an overwhelming "but....why are you sleeping your desktop? Just switch it off like a normal person?".
- distances 7y agoIndeed. I've no idea if sleep works on my desktop. I've never tried.