Now that's fast

built a gamer box last december with a 960 PCIe M.2 interface. Windows ISO installed from USB 3.0 thumbdr in about 3 minutes

Make a note... PCIe M.2 not SATA M.2 check mobo specs. Most M.2's can support either keying, however, not all Mobo/BIOS bus the M.2 as PCIe


Then run updates - 4 hours later
 
Me too!
My 'On-The-Road' notebook is a Lenovo 'Twist' that asks for me login credentials, from a cold boot, in 7-8 seconds.
I use it as a demo to make an easy sale of SSD.
I literally count to 8 in front of my client and usually history repeats itself.

Good idea, I never thought of using my out and about laptop to demonstrate the speed of SSD :)
 
Win10 Pro bootup/shutdown on M.2 NVME drive now feels as fast as CentOS, Ubuntu, or Mint 17/18 on a 5400 RPM laptop drive! :)
 
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Am I the only one that just leaves my pc running?

Besides my laptop that travels with me all other machines just get left on.

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Am I the only one that just leaves my pc running?

Besides my laptop that travels with me all other machines just get left on.

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Mine are on 24/7 unless rebooted for maintenance or repairs.

Sent from my Acer Laptop using my keyboard.
 
Am I the only one that just leaves my pc running?

coffee@dino2:~$ uptime
07:31:37 up 222 days, 13:42, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.14

You guys can't be running Windows, can you? :D Only the server and my mining machine run 24/7. My desktops all do automated local backups at midnight and shut off afterwards. For my machine, I run Quickbooks and have hundreds of automated transactions that only trigger on startup, so either I have to exit and reenter Quickbooks each day or shutdown the machine. Windows is so much happer with a daily reboot, I choose that option.

SSDs help, but I have a couple of VPN clients on my machine, and they slow down the boot considerably. It's a pain, no question.

The 2 linux machines I use for data recovery & cloning start so fast, I just turn them on when needed, then off when that task is done.
 
A couple are running windows a couple linux. Only go down for maintenance or when something requires a reboot.

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