Fastest boot time

[Oatesee]

I'm looking into building a gaming pc and I am going to be running windows 7and i was just wondering what Ssd has the fastest boot time and what size would I need if I would only be putting the operating system on it the parts that I will be using are
Motherboard: asus z87-a
Cpu: intel i5 4670k
8gb of corsair vengeance
500gb wd caviar black

 

[Moonsfang]

Samsung 840 pro series is the best out there right now. You can get a 120gb if its just for booting your OS and programs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W00ZD1548

 

[wtalk2]

Get either a Samsung 840 Pro if you have the money or if you on a tighter budget get a Samsung 840 EVO. As for sizes if you are just using it for your operating system and essential programs you could get away with 120/128GB or if you want to have most/all of your programs on it go for a 250/256GB version

 

[geofelt]

Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar. And quick. They will be 50X faster than a hard drive.
In sequential operations, they will be 2x faster than a hard drive, perhaps 3x if you have a sata3 interface.
Larger SSD's are preferable. They have more nand chips that can be accessed in parallel. Sort of an internal raid-0 if you will.
Also, a SSD will slow down as it approaches full. That is because it will have a harder time finding free nand blocks to do an update without a read/write operation.

I would not worry too much about boot times.
Actually, why not avoid booting at all?
Use sleep to ram(S3 sleep state, no hibernate) Your pc will sleep in 3 seconds anw wake in 3 seconds. Reboot only when required for maintenance.

My pick would be the Samsung EVO. 120gb will hold the os and a handful of games.
Consider buying a 240gb ssd up front and deferring on the hard drive. You can hold a bunch of games on that. You can always add a hard drive later.

 

[ssddx]

my laptop boots in about 8-9 seconds with a samsung 840 pro.

my desktop boots in about 10-15 with a samsung pro (motherboard chipset limits my ssd performance)

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as far as size... remember to take 20% off the top... since you dont want to fill past 80% capacity. then subtract 30gb for os. what is left is the amount of free space you will have. personally i suggest a 250gb.

samsung 830, 840, 840pro or 840evo will all work. for the average user an 840 or 840evo are perfectly fine and are better on the budget!

 

[CTurbo]

You could test ANY 10 120/128GB sata III ssds right now and you would absolutely NOT be able to tell the difference between any of them. Period. I bet ONE second would separate all of them in booting times. Two seconds at the very most.

I have a Samsung 830 128GB, a OCZ Agility 180GB, and an Adata SP900 128GB and there is virtually no performance difference between them. I also have a Samsung 830 64GB and it boots MAYBE 2 seconds faster than my Patriot TorqX 2 64GB sata II.

More important things to look for in an ssd-
1. Warranty
2. reliability
3. longevity