terrible slow boot

lehnerus2000 said:

It is strange.

I was using a 320 GB Seagate IDE HDD up until 2011:

• My W7 boot time was ~45s
• My XP boot time was ~55s

hmmmm... Can you please run HDTune on it if it is still there?


Even if it's IDE, it may be faster (especially if it's a desktop one) , less latency, more continuous throughput, etc

That disk is mighty slow - a lot slower than one of my flash drives - and that is not my fastest stick. And look at the access time. You are ready for a SSD.

derek10 said:

Edit: woops I had to install Windows performance tool kit, now they work

Attachment 16965

Ok, that's Windows 7... not Windows 10. And it says 64 seconds, not 2 minutes.

Mystere said:

Ok, that's Windows 7... not Windows 10. And it says 64 seconds, not 2 minutes.

I said I've now Windows 7 in which 2 minutes to boot was abnormal.
Event ID 100 says 2 minutes.

whs said:

That disk is mighty slow - a lot slower than one of my flash drives - and that is not my fastest stick. And look at the access time. You are ready for a SSD.

Almost twice the highest speed of my disk with almost 0 Access Time and without those deep dips, and it's a USB stick
I will watch SSD prices, there seems to be deals on a local store :) There are even 2TB SATA3 mechanical HDs with way higher speeds, huge cache and lower access time

Nothing beats an SSD. Last week they had 120GB drives for under $50 - at Newegg. But if you need a lot of storage, a SSHD may be a compromise.

sshd - Newegg.com

That SanDisk is pretty good - although a bit nervous.

I've read that the performance drops as the amount of free space declines

I guess that is a possibility because of the way the garbage collection works. It would mainly impact write operations.