hIOmon SSD Performance Monitor - Understanding desktop usage patterns.

[Timur]

And only one reboot later the picture has already changed. Not only concerning Readyboot, but also concerning when things are read and written. All those cache misses of the last screenshot at around 40s where "long" after my system logged in, so likely I manually started something that RB did not know about. Superfetch did not do its prefetching at this time yet neither (I think it wait 2 minutes in W7?), but that wouldn't show on that graph anyway. And with SSD this doesn't all really matter much in practice, still I will take a look with hIOmon to see what happens with and without RB.

Because of the somewhat changing nature of the boot-process measurements of boot-times and access pattern has to be repeated several times without any changes done to the system. Frankly I always wondered how review sites can post "exact" numbers for boot-times, sometimes even with a decimal point? Mine keep changing with every reboot and I assume that they do so on most other systems with a minimum of software installed.

When does hIOmon exactly start to measure? What do we learn by running hIOmon during boot?