J st wanted to throw a "comparison" of sorts out there.
Main system is a Ryzen 7 2700X with 32GB of CL14 RAM running 3200mhz. Opening a base windows load, nothing changed from stock install, clone running 2 threads and 4GB of RAM each.
One of them on a Samsung 960 EVO NVME and the other is a Toshiba 2.5" 5400 RPM (laptop) HDD.
Using Oracle VM Virtualbox, from desktop, click start to desktop.
The Toshiba HDD took roughly 78 seconds. The Samsung NVME took roughly 20 seconds. This was a super loose count, but shows very plainly that if you are still running ANY system off a HDD for OS you should strongly consider SSD.
I am going to continue some informal tests on both 3.5" drives of the "green" and WD "yellow", as well as a couple of SSD like the good old HD Blue and some other Samsung. Just for the sake of doing it.
Main system is a Ryzen 7 2700X with 32GB of CL14 RAM running 3200mhz. Opening a base windows load, nothing changed from stock install, clone running 2 threads and 4GB of RAM each.
One of them on a Samsung 960 EVO NVME and the other is a Toshiba 2.5" 5400 RPM (laptop) HDD.
Using Oracle VM Virtualbox, from desktop, click start to desktop.
The Toshiba HDD took roughly 78 seconds. The Samsung NVME took roughly 20 seconds. This was a super loose count, but shows very plainly that if you are still running ANY system off a HDD for OS you should strongly consider SSD.
I am going to continue some informal tests on both 3.5" drives of the "green" and WD "yellow", as well as a couple of SSD like the good old HD Blue and some other Samsung. Just for the sake of doing it.