Restart Time

[RandomCritic]

63 Seconds

 

[TechnoMage]

I had never run the "Timer" program on this old Toshiba Satellite (laptop).
After repairing it from "Broken and Beyond Repair" status, I did my normal tweaking and tuning, like every other PC.
It's only a 32 bit machine, so I'm running Windows 7/x86.
Here's the report from the "Restart Timer" program.

I consider that pretty darn good, considering what I have it do during the Boot Up process.
I'm forcing a System Restore Point, and running a "Temp Cleaner.exe" program to remove all the junk files accumulated from the last time the OS was run. Also starting is "Super Anti Spyware" and "O.E.Classic".
I'm happy as a pig in a mud hole!!!

TM

 

[TechnoMage]

Now running an HP Slimline with an SSD, and reboot time is 20 seconds.
Not bad, Eh?
I do minimize the stuff (services) starting up at Boot.

TM

 

[SCANNERMAN]

lol mine takes a couple of minutes. It runs about 30 hard drives and triple boots sooo...

 

[TechnoMage]

That doesn't sound like any PC I ever worked on. That sounds more like "Mainframe" boot time.

 

[TechnoMage]

To get the best performance (boot time too) it's important to have the right ram for your motherboard.
When I built my Main PC, several years ago, I just put in one stick of 4GB ram. Some time later I acquired another stick of 4GB ram, but not from the same manufacturer.
The two sticks of mismatched ram seemed to work OK, but my reboot time was 101 Seconds.
Just last week, I got a single 8GB stick from Crucial.com. I removed the two mismatched sticks and installed the one 8GB stick. Now my reboot time is only 85 seconds.

That improvement in performance not only effects boot time, but everything I do on that PC.

So, for best performance, make sure you have the correct ram for your PC. Crucial.com is a good place to start. They use only the finest quality ram, from Micron.

Happy Holidays,
TM

 

[Teeotsa]

I got a single 8GB stick from Crucial.com.

Why single channel memory tho? Hmm...

 

[SCANNERMAN]

That doesn't sound like any PC I ever worked on. That sounds more like "Mainframe" boot time.

Never thought of it that way. To be honest there are times I can get it to boot to an o/s in just over a minute and I'm sure there are other things I could do to speed that up BUT I really don't mind the wait time of a minute or two on a cold boot. Gives me time to grab a fresh cup. My basement is an internet cafe essentially, and I rather like the idea of owning my own cloud. Once it's all up and running I have no speed concerns as I get to select my fastest drives when I want speed.

 

[SCANNERMAN]

It's not a mainframe per se but it certainly serves my purposes and the purposes of my family network. Not exactly the fastest rig in town either but ranking among the most stable. Then again, I live in a small town.

Drives Y and Z are reserved for my toaster and any USB drives or other portables I might use. I also use a number of RAID configurations (0, 1, and 10) so this technically pushes it over the 30 mark. I run two RAID 10 arrays and two RAID 1 arrays and a little RAID 0 array for casual gaming. The Intel 0ctocore handles it all rather well with the assistance of an LSI/AVAGO card employing break out cables. The RAID 0 is onboard via Intel. I loiks my little rig and it serves me well.

 

[TechnoMage]

I've actually worked on a system similar to yours. It was an IBM 370, with a Courier VTLC and 250 terminals attached. Nice little system, but the boot time was horrible. I could take my lunch break while it booted up. lol

 

[SCANNERMAN]

I can cold boot in just over a

minute with this.

 

[TechnoMage]

It's obvious to me that your needs and desires far exceed mine. My little 2 Core CPU, 500GB Crucial SSD and 4GB of ram, serve me adequately.
And if a Lightning strike wipes it out, despite my four levels of lightning protection, I can replace it in less than ten minutes and be back in business. Can you say as much?
I doubt I could even afford to pay your Electric Bill.
"Too many eggs in one basket, maybe".

 

[SCANNERMAN]

YUP. In fact, I've done it. That is to say I've gotten this unit back up and running in less than ten minutes with all data intact. I live pretty much right next door to the northern wilderness and we get many electrical storms up this way. I use a sine wave UPS on my work station and all the PCs on the network are linked to their own designated UPS units. My basement looks like an internet Café (remember those?) and my girls (all four) love their Minecraft "LAN parties". The CyberPower UPS units are plugged into a ground protected server grade switch box incorporating heavy duty toggle switches (I forgot how many joules it's rated for but it has served me well). The Tripp lite unit is on an isolated receptacle with extra ground and surge protection. I also serve my local community with this labour of love as we have no newspaper. Admittedly, my power bill is high, but I look at this as a way to serve my community, to help others, and to educate my children to better enable them with skill sets that could give them an edge in the occupational realm. I'm a PC enthusiast. I build PCs, I service PCs, and I like playing around with them. I do a lot of unorthodox things with them too. uh... yeah, I experiment. - It's a great way to learn!