WD Raptor Boot times.

[tokomoto]

This is to all that own Raptors, what are you boot times. I am interested in buying a 36.7GB Raptor. I wanted to know if you guys/gals see a difference in the boot time with a 10k vs. 7.2k. Please let me know your thoughts. THanks all.

 

[imported_hopeless]

I'm looking at getting one of these also. I'm curious too.

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: tokomoto
This is to all that own Raptors, what are you boot times. I am interested in buying a 36.7GB Raptor. I wanted to know if you guys/gals see a difference in the boot time with a 10k vs. 7.2k. Please let me know your thoughts. THanks all.

Damn fast...the longest thing about my load times is the bios scanning for devices. Disable this, and from the time I hit power, I'm into windows in under 10 sec.

 

[IHYLN]

Using a stopwatch and starting with a cold boot I timed my PC into windows at 9 seconds. No raptor drive, WD120JB actually.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Sys specs?

 

[MDE]

Power button to desktop is about 35 seconds with two Raptors in RAID-0, no clue why.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: MDE
Power button to desktop is about 35 seconds with two Raptors in RAID-0, no clue why.

I am getting about to be the same. Screen just...blinks for awhile...then once it picks up the drives it loads pretty past. It's detecting them that slows it down.

 

[Tiamat]

From the second I hit restart, and windows reboots ... until the second I see the hour glass dissapear on my desktop is 35 seconds. This is with 1x 74GB Raptor

 

[stickybytes]

this is not scientifically accurate at all. people load different stuff onto their computer and that may slow down their computer.

 

[WW2Planes1]

i second what stickybytes has said. it will depend on your OS, your sytem, and when you stop timing. i.e. in Win2K do you stop when the screen changes from the loading to the blue default screen, or do you wait until the cursor stops doing it's hourglass thing. and do you have additional SATA controllers attached to your mobo? or have you stripped your system down to get the absolute fastest time possible

anyway. i don't have boot times 'cause i never actually bothered to time it, but I'm running a single Raptor on the Nforce SATA connection on the Asus K8N-E Deluxe with Windows2000. I just got it installed, and right now my feeling is that the overall system is a little faster, but it wasn't really the night and day difference I was expecting. I still haven't installed UT2004 yet, so I don't know if that will load faster or not. Frankly, I got the Raptor mostly because it was cool anyway. I did decide that RAID 0 wasn't cost effective enough though.

 

[IHYLN]

I got a MSI K8N NEO2 Platinum
2x512 Kingston HyperX 4000 (till my OCZ 4200 comes in) (currently running at 265x10) CAS3 2T
GF 6800 GT
WinXP Pro
A64 3500 90nm @ 1.6v koolance watercooled

 

[tokomoto]

thanks for all your replys. I'm very interested in these results. I am running AMD64 3200, 1GB XMS Corsair pro, VNF3-250, WinXPro.

 

[jpeyton]

Boot times have more to do with how well you optimize your system. My drive of choice for the past half-year has been the cheap 160GB Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB drive; I've booted Dell 400SCs with that drive in 19 seconds from power switch to desktop; I've booted Athlon 64 3000+ systems with the same drive in 17 seconds. I'm sure I could shave off a few seconds if I overpaid for a 74GB Raptor, but why? Will those extra 3 seconds during boot change the course of my day?

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Will those extra 3 seconds during boot change the course of my day?

No.

However, the quicker access times and SCSI-like logic in the Raptor means that it will be a bit more responsive in day-to-day use.

I had a pair of WD SE (80gb 8mb cache) drives in Raid 0, and I find the WD Raptor 74gb much more responsive.

Throughput was slightly higher with the raid array, but overall I'd say that the Raptor is better

 

[robisc]

From my experience so far, I have seen a big increase in boot times (haven;t timed it) with a Raptor compared to a 7200 RPM PATA drive, but I will say that overall I am unimpressed by the overall performance increase and the supposed claims that I read in many reviews regarding these drives, for the money I don't think they are worth it, this is IMO of course.

 

[Zinn2b]

After bios post about 5 seconds keep in mind though I have my system optimized for gaming and memory usage . un the other hand mywifes system which is exactly the same as mine takes about 15 seconds after bios boot she has all the eye candy so it differant strokes for differant folks

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Zinn2b
After bios post about 5 seconds keep in mind though I have my system optimized for gaming and memory usage . un the other hand mywifes system which is exactly the same as mine takes about 15 seconds after bios boot she has all the eye candy so it differant strokes for differant folks

That has nothing to do with boot times!?! Did youpost in the wrong thread or something?

Anyone running RAID 0 or RAID 5 array. IF so can you see any differences? (Im thinking negligable)

-Kevin

 

[Mrvile]

Hmm boot times also depend on the crap you have loading up at Startup. I have boots times of like 10 mins since I have a bunch of stuff at Startup that I'd like to turn off but I don't know what's safe to turn off and what's not. Any tips?

 

[sharkeeper]

What is the purpose of boot up times?

Is that really productive?

I had a raptor and my system booted fast but was dogshit slow (as usual for typical IDE junk) when I tipped the ladle so I stuck with SCSI and its three minute boot times. I rarely reboot anyways and see 1000 hours or more of uptime - on a worksatan to boot! Pun not intended.

Cheers!

 

[Viper96720]

If your hooked up to an on board controller. Boot times will be slower. Since the controller has to initiliaze and detect the drives. If you don't use them make sure to disable it.

 

[naruto1988]

my boot up time is around 45 seconds on a seagate barracuda 120 gig =p 45 seconds is fast enough for me.

 

[NegatiZE]

It takes half a swipe on the XP boot screen then I'm in Windows. 1 74GB Raptor here.

 

[Dug]

I had a raptor and my system booted fast but was dogshit slow (as usual for typical IDE junk) when I tipped the ladle so I stuck with SCSI and its three minute boot times. I rarely reboot anyways and see 1000 hours or more of uptime - on a worksatan to boot! Pun not intended.

mmm... This kinda goes against what everyone else including storage review says. Exactly what programs are you running all the time that make the raptor slow compared to a scsi drive.

 

[Zinn2b]

HAY game geek were the hell do you live

 

[Zinn2b]

YOU want to turn some stuff off ok because you said you had a lot of stuff on here.s what to do GO to PC pitstop Run there test anomously after the test a window well open and it well show all the apps you have on there well be grouped in three cat. you can turn off everthing in the first 2 cat. ok its really easy for people like youself ok Bud