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Re: Finally finished moving system
12/07/15 06:17 PM
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> Boot time went from over 60s to 23s according to Wise Care (though I saw the desktop
> much sooner). I didn't even have to remove the old drive- I just rebooted, hit F8 to
> change the boot device, and here I am. I will remove it for the next step just to
> make sure, but since i made it this far that shouldn't be a problem. Then, format and
> spend hours copy back all the files that took hours and hours to move to the external
> drive in the first place.
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> Edit: 19s without the hard drive attached.
Those are the 4 seconds your BIOS spends detecting and enumerating the extra drive. This will increase as you add drives. Some BIOSes might have a way to minimize this time, maybe by telling it which drives are bootable and which drives aren't. I have 4 drives, two of which are bootable, but I haven't tried to tweak this on mine.
I'd keep the drive installed and use it for music, movies and other stuff that don't need to load fast or that don't benefit (a lot) from faster loading times.
My OS is on a 120GB SSD, with +50GB still free. I store almost everything on a second, mechanical drive, even my email, Steam and some apps that I think load fast enough, or that I rarely use. I keep another mechanical drive just for multitrack recording.
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