Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 boot times on solid state vs. regular hard drive

Comparing (almost) completely clean new installations of Ubuntu 12.04 on my home (an old hp Pentium 4) on

1) 1.0 TB Western Digital SATA 64MB Cache 3Gbps?
I got to the login screen about 37.5 seconds after pressing the power button, and to the desktop about 10.3 seconds later.

and 2) 80 Gb Intel SSD? (I already screwed it to the inside of the box...)
I got to the login screen about 30.5 seconds after pressing the power button, and to the desktop about 7 seconds later.

So, the SSD saves about 10 seconds per startup.

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