Sorry no posts recently – too much fun playing the SSD!  Lots of unboxing to come though…

It occurred to me the other day when I was testing the SSD that the most significant element of the boot up period was actually the Dell initialising it’s BIOS, and obviously that time is a constant on the boot whatever the hardware attached.  So I thought I’d time it, and it turns out that the BIOS takes a full 16 seconds to initialise!

That means the final scores on the doors are:

Vista 64 + Seagate Barracuda: boot up time (excluding BIOS) = 3 minutes 0 seconds

Windows 7 64 + Samsung SSD: boot up time (excluding BIOS) = 0 minutes 25 seconds

Does make me wonder if other motherboards get through this quicker – anyone have any other experiences they’d like to share?  Pop them in the comments.

Dan

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