We got a HP z420 workstation for our graphic artist and slapped two SSDs in a RAID 0 in it and have had nothing but problems. He is now back to a regular spinning drive. We didn't even find that the boot was much faster with the SSDs. The SSDs where Kingston HyperX or something like that.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote: > I liked the commentary on the other one....LOL. Would you like some fries > with that boot? > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:06 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> LOL, even better:**** >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIhMWACjeU**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Dave**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:05 PM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: [OT ish] Just wanted to share a good experience.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 11 seconds, that’s almost as fast as Windows 3.1 on a crusty IDE drive >> and 2MB of RAM J. Actually I don’t remember how long it took, only that >> Windows 95 took FOREEEVER by comparison, and once I managed to Load WfW >> 3.11 on a Pentium II and couldn’t believe how fast it booted – and I >> remember with 386’s paring down the WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files to make it >> boot faster.**** >> >> ….looking for videos now…**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Ah….here’s a video of 40 seconds from the end of POST to Win3.1 Program >> Manager**** >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJDIGiepgU**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Or 12 seconds on newer hardware:**** >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A_E9Wp4Zj8**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Yes, I am not including the POST time.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 11 seconds from power button to desktop is smokin’ fast, I’ll have to >> check my home machine with SSD. It’s not that fast, but I can reboot it and >> desktop-to-desktop time is not much longer than it takes me standard SATAII >> / Vista machine / 3GHz Athlon to simply power off.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Dave**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:50 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: [OT ish] Just wanted to share a good experiance.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> That sounds like you're still on Windows 7. Wait until you see the boot >> times on Windows 8 with an SSD. My HP Eiltebook boots in 11 seconds. I >> think I have the same drive.**** >> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> Ok, I just want to share an good experience I just had. I have an HP >> Elite 8100 mini tower, it was getting a bit slow, so let’s put in a SSD >> drive. I got the Intel 520 Series 240 Gb SATA3 for CD$279 at Canada >> Computers. Now I was dreading the new install of the OS and all >> applications . . . but wait, Intel has a migration tool >> http://www.intel.com/go/ssdinstallation **** >> >> That sounds interesting so less than an hour later I had a cloned OS >> drive on the new SSD drive, re-booted had to re-arrange some drive letters, >> shut down and swapped the SATA cables to boot from the SSD drive, That was >> it, absolutely no re-install of anything, very, very slick. I now boot up >> (from cold) including opening IE at start-up in 1 min 10 sec, previously ~ >> 3 min. Everything is much snappier. A good $280 spent and hardly any work . >> . . .**** >> >> >> >> -- >> Stefan Jafs**** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
