slow booting times

[jakess]

Hello,

my friend and i built my PC in 2015 and i have had slow booting times (Initial startup, rainbow six siege, battlefield etc.) for a long time. Now i have started wondering what i should do about it.

Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz
RAM: 8,00Gt Dual-Channel DDR3
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD3H
GPU: Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Storage: Western Digital 2TB WD20EFRX 6,0 GB/s

Other people have had the same problems and what i found was about SSD's and that SATA3 is not very fast with booting times... Am i even close to the source of the problems?

It should be stated that i'm not very experienced with PCs...

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[shknawe]

You can grab an Intel 545s 512gb for about $80 on E-bay and upgrade your os/game load in times a lot compared to a hard drive.

 

[inzane4all]

Depending on the SSD you buy (Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, etc....) boot times will improve a lot. Looks like your running a mech drive still. You should consider moving your OS to an SSD and keep your 2TB mech drive for apps, docs, etc...

Looking at your HDD specs, it seems to be running at 5400 RPM.... 7200 RPM's was recommended back then (before SSD's), and if you were lucky to get your hands on a Raptor drive (12000 RPM's), that was considered the fastest desktop drive.

Get yourself an SSD. Samsung SSD's are dirt cheap right now and well worth the investment:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1544130005&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=samsung+ssd+500gb&psc=1

 

[jakess]

So i can "combine" them or use them together?

Thank you very much for the answers!