Should I enable or disable Windows Fast Startup?

[SumTingW0ng]

Should I enable or disable Windows Fast Startup? I have the OS installed on SSD.

 

[offroadguy56]

Disable fast startup if you change hardware frequently. Changing hard drives or USB devices and the such. If you have a laptop it's generally OK to have fast boot enabled.

What it does is take note of the hardware devices installed and on next boot it will assume those same devices are still installed so it doesn't need to ask each device if it's there. Additionally some motherboards will disable their splash screen and wait times for key presses to get into modes like BIOS/UEFI and Boot devices.

 

[k1114]

Drivers are still loaded in a hibernate as well but this is just complicating it. With a ssd, boot time is short enough and I'd recommend disabling it.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

Drivers are still loaded in a hibernate as well but this is just complicating it. With a ssd, boot time is short enough and I'd recommend disabling it. [/quotemsg

Thanks. What about superfetch and prefetch? Should I turn that off on SSD that has Windows installed?

 

[k1114]

Do not do any of the nonsense ssd optimizations. There is nothing you need to do but treat it like a hdd which means no extra steps.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

Do not do any of the nonsense ssd optimizations. There is nothing you need to do but treat it like a hdd which means no extra steps.

But I heard you don't need superfetch and prefetch on SSD.

 

[k1114]

You don't need a lot of things but it's a waste of time getting rid of them because it doesn't help you either. Also, ram is still a whole lot faster than a ssd.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

You don't need a lot of things but it's a waste of time getting rid of them because it doesn't help you either. Also, ram is still a whole lot faster than a ssd.

I know RAM is a lot of faster, but based on what I read is that SuperFetch and Prefetch is needed for HDD and not for an SSD.

 

[k1114]

What those do is load info into the ram as cache. If you ever look at a more in depth ram usage like in resource monitor, you should see most of your ram should always have something in it for best performance. There's a difference between used and cached ram. No matter if you have a ssd or hdd, those files are already in ram if they were fetched. Turning it off and you are waiting on a ssd speed instead of ram speed.