7 second bootracer times?!!?! post em here if u have fast storage

[mbreslin]

@railmeat: bad link

True statement.

Also, 8 256gb c300: 0 issues.

My experience just making sure people know c300s aren't bad drives, sorry if yours was bad. (I would be first in line to say they were bad if so)

Go to intel or ocz's forums, there are complaints about all drives. You can just be unlucky, it happens.

True statement.

It's also very well known the marvell controller/driver is very immature and doesn't perform anything like expected, even with 6gb/s drives.

True statement.

Boot time is a horrible metric for judging performance. The time you spend booting is tiny compared to the time you spend actually using the computer.

Guy #1: Nice new computer seems fast let's play a game.
Guy #2: Yeah it's awesome let me show you this.
Guy #1: Why are you rebooting?
Guy #2: I want to show you how fast it boots!
Guy #1: Who cares? Let's play a game?

My opinion and the last parts wasn't needed, my apologies.

I guess boot time can be a decent initial clue of single drive performance. Keep in mind if you add another drive or two and do raid 0 you may get much better actual everyday computer usage performance but your boot time is going to suffer because of the raid controller initialization. At this point boot time stops being useful in my opinion. (note: I don't think it's useful ever but it's certainly not useful when adding a raid controller)


Discussions about money never go anywhere. I could have been saving pennies for years and finally splurged on a new computer. I could be 15 years old and have rich parents. Expensive doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. Read/Write speeds on SSDs are real numbers, "expensive" "cheap" "not worth it" are all subjective and not worth the argument.

One more thing I should have added in my original post: I have a raid controller (2 initializations counting 9260 and ich10r) so I wouldn't really know but 6 seconds seems very fast, congrats!

Edit: Sorry just wanted to add something:

all i do if im not working is game,im NOT benchmarker.bootracer is thee simplest way to if things are starting off right

This is what you said in your response but it's not what you seemed to say in your OP..

download bootracer here.best program on the planet i think to let u know if your storage is on point.

This is clearly not true because of reasons stated earlier, adding more drives in R0 increases performance yet also increases boot time so obviously lowest boot time doesn't equal best performance.