Ah, not quite. There is no evidence to suggest that a magnetic disk would make the specific reported situation of a 2-3 minute delay any worse. Yes, a magnetic drive is slower, but you are apparently assuming that the system is doing no other useful work while waiting for whatever it is to timeout. However, because Windows loads things in parallel, the system most likely WOULD be doing other work, even while waiting. While it will take a magnetic drive longer to perform work related to startup and login, it will likely be doing much of that work while you would be waiting for the timeout anyway.
So yes, SSDs are certainly faster--I have several myself--but there is nothing to suggest that a magnetic drive would somehow magically turn the as-yet unidentified 2-3 minute delay into a 5-7 minute delay as you previously claimed. The overall system would certainly be slower and more frustrating, but again, there is nothing to support your claim. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua MacCraw > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Slow logon times when not connected to the domain with > Win7 laptop... > > Wrong, point was disk was out of the equation and still there is a lengthy > delay which would likely compound IF a HDD was in use. > On Mar 27, 2011 5:58 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote:
