At the same time, 25 seconds is really nice. Starting from zero on a
VMWare Fusion Windows 7 bootup on my MacBook Pro internal hard drive
takes about 110 seconds before I hear the startup sound. Laptop hard
drives are usually optimized for low power, not speed, and it's readily
apparent in Windows boot time. The Core i7-3270QM processor (4 core, 8
thread, 2.6GHz) seems to mostly be napping and yawning.
CB
On 1/4/14 8:07 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote:
Starting up from the start up button it is also a drawn between Lacie and the
internal iMac fusion drive. Time 25 seconds. What is interesting is that it
uses the same time at the best also when in Windows desktop, hitting restart
and boot back into Windows desktop they uses 25 seconds. Remember i have to
type in the log in password. My guess, the password takes 5 seconds. Now i will
try to switch to thunderbolt cable and see if VMWare will open it. Yes, VMWare
opened the Virtual Windows when changing connection from usb to thunderbolt.
Boot time from the start up button with thunderbolt was about the same as with
usb 3.0 From Windows desktop, hitting restart the bot time was from 30-35
seconds. Up to 10 seconds worse than usb or internal fusion drive.
Watched a video on youtube about a macbook pro with Haswell processor had a
boot time from start up button on 15 seconds without login screen.
Take care
4. jan. 2014 kl. 07:32 skrev Terje Strømberg <[email protected]>:
I am using the timer on iPhone. Hitting restart on Windows and as fast as i can
double tapping on the timer. A couple of days back i did restart and watched
the timer when the LaCie was connected to thunderbolt. The iMac fusion drive is
in fact about 5-7 seconds faster when hitting restart and the sound for landing
in Windows again occur. So, this means that LaCie connected to usb 3.0 was
about 5-7 seconds faster than thunderbolt. I will try to restart with
thunderbolt about ten times later tomorrow or in a couple of days to be sure.
Last time i did this test only two times. iMacs fusion drive had more top time
i.e. consistence at the top speed, but the LaCie was up there a couple of
times, but was about 5 seconds behind a couple of times. Insanely fast at the
best. I have to type the log in password and especially one time i was
surprised of how fast and miss spelled.
The best iMac late 2014 will be a killer machine.
Take care
4. jan. 2014 kl. 04:55 skrev Chris Blouch <[email protected]>:
So how long did it actually take from hitting play to being up and running?
From the reviews of the LaCie Rugged 120GB SSD drives it should have about
112MBs read and 92MBs write on USB3 compared to 155MBs read and 150MBs write on
Thunderbolt. So Thunderbolt should only gain you about 30-40% speed increase or
reduction in boot time, assuming that bootup is mostly I/O bound.
CB
On 1/3/14 10:28 PM, Terje Strømberg wrote:
Hi
Boot test - Internal VMWare Fusion Windows 7 64bit running on a internal fusion
drive on iMac vs External VMWare Fusion Windows 7 64bit running on LaCie
external Rugged 120GB SSD. Why do i do a boot test between internal and
external drive? To find out if external sad is faster than iMacs fusion drive
running virtual machine. I was disappointed to find out that Windows running in
boot camp on iMac, did not use iMac internal fusion drive, only the spinning
drive. So i would like to see if it was the same with virtual machine or hoping
that external was 10 seconds faster than the iMacs internal fusion drive. The
match ended in a draw. Dammit. In my case it was a tie. The LaCie rugged was
connected to usb. Should not be any difference with this disk connected to
thunderbolt or usb 3.0. I could not find out if it is possible to run both at
same time, but i could install both with the same serial number. That said, i
hav not confirmed that the went through Microsofts servers and was activated
have to check that tomorrow. VMWare looks like a very goodf peace of software.
I suspended it in the middle of 141 Windows updates and it resumed from where
it was when suspended. I just hit the play button. Funny program.
I am just testing a quite a lot before i find the best setup for this system.
Then i will take backup and relaxe with it and stay in Mountain Lion for many
years. Just using the iMac for music, mail, internet, internet - tv and a few
movies. Two or three simple programs that only run in Windows virtual machine.
Take care
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