What is a good full-system boot time?

[FoTheWin]

Title says it all, mainly talking in windows 8.

The reason I ask is because on my WD Blue 1tb I get a full boot time of 18-20 seconds, which supposedly is fast for just a HDD.

 

[Eximo]

Windows 8 is odd, so it doesn't actually shut down. It does what is called a 'hybrid shutdown' Kind of a cross between hibernation and sleep.

If you wanted to do a baseline test between say Windows 7 and 8 you should try a restart and time that.

As for your boot time. I would say that is excellent for a spinning drive.

 

[USAFRet]

A lot of boot performance depends on what is in your Startup. The more applications, the longer it will take.

 

[FoTheWin]

Windows 8 is odd, so it doesn't actually shut down. It does what is called a 'hybrid shutdown' Kind of a cross between hibernation and sleep.

If you wanted to do a baseline test between say Windows 7 and 8 you should try a restart and time that.

As for your boot time. I would say that is excellent for a spinning drive.

I did not know windows 8 did that, interesting.

Thanks for the response, and yeah, I thought it was a decent boot time for purely a HDD. This drive seems abnormally fast at everything, it is really rather strange.

A lot of boot performance depends on what is in your Startup. The more applications, the longer it will take.

Yeah, I realize that, that 18-20 seconds is with everything I have that is in the task-manager startup menu turned on.

But still, a very good point.

 

[Karadjgne]

There's too many variables to really give a reliable answer. It's more than just what's in startup, its also what is being started up, how strong is the cpu, is it a 5200rpm hdd or 10000rpm hdd, are drivers and bios tweaked, hooking up to network? Lan settings, router or modem or wireless. OS. All of that and more can add or subtract to boot times.

My 3570k win7pro cold boot to open Internet is @23 seconds. My daughters pentium D 3.3GHz winXp cold boot to open Internet is @3.5minutes.

Windows7pro has hybrid sleep. It's the desktop version of hibernate, and hibernate should never be used on a desktop anyways, its designed for laptop use.

 

[FoTheWin]

There's too many variables to really give a reliable answer. It's more than just what's in startup, its also what is being started up, how strong is the cpu, is it a 5200rpm hdd or 10000rpm hdd, are drivers and bios tweaked, hooking up to network? Lan settings, router or modem or wireless. OS. All of that and more can add or subtract to boot times.

My 3570k win7pro cold boot to open Internet is @23 seconds. My daughters pentium D 3.3GHz winXp cold boot to open Internet is @3.5minutes.

Windows7pro has hybrid sleep. It's the desktop version of hibernate, and hibernate should never be used on a desktop anyways, its designed for laptop use.

Good point. I suppose a better question is, is my boot time a good one on the following setup?
Processor is an AMD FX-6300(stock speeds for now), 7200 RPM WD Blue 1TB, nothing adjusted in BIOS except for I turned off Cool & Quiet on the CPU (annoying to have framerate drops in CPU intensive games) And just a standard Windows 8.1.

I suppose even that could be a silly question considering like you said all the variables involved.

 

[Karadjgne]

Well if that @20 seconds is a cold boot to functioning OS, for a hdd that's fantastic, I get @23 seconds with a SSD, but I'm also networked in house, hard wire lan, all the related firewall settings, Norton and other moderate usage programs etc.

 

[FoTheWin]

Well if that @20 seconds is a cold boot to functioning OS, for a hdd that's fantastic, I get @23 seconds with a SSD, but I'm also networked in house, hard wire lan, all the related firewall settings, Norton and other moderate usage programs etc.

That is indeed a cold boot to the login screen. Also, I have things like norton, steam and probably about 3 other things on startup.

But if the boot time is really that good, well, I'm just really happy. This wasn't meant to be a fast-booting machine or anything, but whatever.

 

[Karadjgne]

My wife's pc at work takes a full 9 minutes to cold boot. Say yeay for network drives. Heh