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philsmove
1st-September-2010, 08:25 AM
PC Ads from the stone age (http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads-that-will-blow-your-processor/)

DavidY
1st-September-2010, 08:50 AM
PC Ads from the stone age They may be from the stone age, but I wish my modern laptop would start up in the same sort of time that it took to get a prompt on one of those old computers (usually a few seconds, whereas my laptop can faff around for a few minutes).

Dreadful Scathe
1st-September-2010, 10:55 AM
They may be from the stone age, but I wish my modern laptop would start up in the same sort of time that it took to get a prompt on one of those old computers (usually a few seconds, whereas my laptop can faff around for a few minutes).
Not if you have a solid state device of course, or do what i do and use short stroking on your boot drive - basically i have a 1.5tb drive restricted to around 300gb at the outer edge - the fastest part of the drive. This makes it much faster even than a raptor drive. Heres some info (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-2.html). Neither of these methods are as fast as ram though, I remember using RAD drives (virtual drives entirely in memory) on the Amiga years ago, near instant boot* and the drives exist even after a soft reset.

(* it seemed so at the time, but this is around 17 years ago)

philsmove
1st-September-2010, 11:42 AM
do what i do and use short stroking on your boot drive

the mind boggles:eek:, should this thread be taken outside

Dreadful Scathe
1st-September-2010, 12:46 PM
the mind boggles:eek:, should this thread be taken outside
indeed, which is why i provided a link. Seriously, you can click on it at work :)

David Franklin
1st-September-2010, 04:35 PM
I remember using RAD drives (virtual drives entirely in memory) on the Amiga years ago, near instant boot* and the drives exist even after a soft reset.For info, ASRock provide an instant boot mode in their BIOS that gets you to a desktop in about 4 seconds from power on.

As I understand it, what happens is that when you shutdown, the machine actually reboots (to get to the state you'd be after a clean boot), and then dumps that state to the HD before shutting down. Then when you actually boot the machine, instead of doing the normal setup, it just pulls the previously saved state.

frodo
2nd-September-2010, 12:52 AM
PC Ads from the stone age (http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads-that-will-blow-your-processor/)

IIRC correctly IBM sold those for many years (at that sort of price or higher).

frodo
2nd-September-2010, 12:55 AM
basically i have a 1.5tb drive restricted to around 300gb at the outer edge - the fastest part of the drive. This makes it much faster even than a raptor drive. Heres some info (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-2.html).

How about an operating system that automatically short strokes.

I'm wondering if a USB flash drive with Windows 7 ReadyBoost might substitute.

Dreadful Scathe
2nd-September-2010, 08:16 PM
How about an operating system that automatically short strokes.

not possible - the bios will report it as a smaller drive before the OS has use of it.



I'm wondering if a USB flash drive with Windows 7 ReadyBoost might substitute.

Not sure it is that fast but all flash drives will vary in speed anyway. Heres a good page (http://www.anandtech.com/print/3734) that runs some comparisons with some of the tech mentioned - and a new seagate hybrid drive. Also here are short stroking instructions (http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/) :)