How fast does your thinkpad boot?

Mine boots in 1:06. This is with msn messenger, yahoo messenger, skype and avgfree.
Seems like a mediocre boot speed for a hybrid ssd. I loaded the latest sd28 firmware for my momentus xt 500gb - not that it really helps with boot speed anyways.


Platform: Win7 64 bit

 

My X220i is just under 20 seconds and my R60e is about seven seconds.

 

~25 seconds - T420s, 7 64bit.

 

32 seconds give or take a second with every Lenovo utility and MSE installed.

 

X220T w/ 160GB 320 series SSD: 15 seconds to a usable desktop
Z61t w/ 80GB Intel G1 SSD: 25 seconds to a usable desktop
Alienware M17x R2 w/ 320GB RAID 0 320 series array: 10 seconds to a usable desktop
Vostro 1500 w/ 120 GB 320 series SSD: 15 seconds to a usable desktop

 

23 second according to Boot Timer
which start counting when bios loading OS (add the number by ~20 sec from the moment power button pressed until usable desktop)

by the way my X201i (M/T 3626-G46) spec:
i3-380M
4GB RAM
250GB 5400RPM HDD
Win7 Pro x86

 

30 seconds to logon Screen and 40s to loaded Desktop - X220i with 5400rpm HDD.

 

On my T420 it's 12.136 secs on Windows 7 Professional x64 according to Boot Timer. That's with MSE, Dolby Home Theatre Profile and Power Manager all loaded on Startup. Using Samsung 830 128GB SSD as my boot drive, all my storage is on my 500GB 5400RPM drive in the Ultrabay Caddy.

 

Lots of impressive load speed.

 

Holy moley! Those are some fast boot-up times. My T420 takes a minute or so to boot with a 7200rpm HDD. I didn't clean install, but I removed some start-up applications/services and defragged.

 

That utility does not take into account BIOS bootup.

You can manipulate numbers My Thinkpad wakes up from sleep much faster than iPad. It is about 12 seconds for iPad vs 2 seconds for Thinkpad. Reason? Entering secure password on iPad's software keyboard is really slow, Thinkpad's fingerpring reader is immediate.

 

I have a T420. I have the Windows 8 CP installed on an Intel 310 mSATA SSD (it's 40GB). Boots from BIOS to lock screen in about 30 seconds.

 

With a password but autologon, Windows boot trace puts the boot at 28 seconds to desktop.

I had it down to 16 seconds once, but then I screwed around with it too much and it was never the same. Windows trying to load all 844 fonts at the same time doesn't help much either.

Come on guys; I'm expecting your SSDs to blow me out of the water.

 

They do blow your HD out of the water (every single one of them). The difference being is that with an SSD, the computer is ready to work and isn't stuck preloading a bunch of stuff for another 0.5 a minute. I don't think you can even compare it by using when the "desktop shows up".

EDIT: Furthermore, different users have different software installed on their computers. My computer isn't optimized to boot as fast as possible (it boots to a fully functional state ~30 seconds from the moment you press Power button), but rather to have software tools that I use to perform work. (My work doesn't consist of rebooting the computer in the infinite loop every day.) In this case it's a big Adobe package (Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop), Microsoft Office, MATLAB, Mathematica, COMSOL engineering software etc. And yes again, using every single of those apps whenever there is a request for disk access e.g. building a time-lapse video out of large number of separate images, it pretty much smokes a regular hard drive. I would happen to know that since I use a conventional HD in the dock station so I had a chance to compare.

For the advantage with launching a large number of startup applications see e.g. Why I love my SSD - Windows 7 boot + loading 27 applications in about 1 minute. - YouTube

 

From the time I hit the power button to an actual usable desktop (with password entry) is 25 seconds. That is with the x220/80gb intel 310 combo.

 

Mine took 40s with BIOS Bootup. (Used a stop Watch)

It was originally a Clean Install. I then installed EVERY single Driver, including Rapidboot. To then improve Boot time (Original Installtion takes about 1 minute) I used msconfig to disable some Programs. This dramatically improved my Boot Times.

 

That is incredible.

My stupid Lenovo BIOS logo stays in my face nearly 8 seconds on my W510. With no password, I am at the desktop in about 26 seconds and the network is fully alive and usable in 6-10 seconds after that.

To test that I just put IE or FireFox in the startup group and wait until it is able to hit the web. I figure 35-36 seconds is pretty good with the BIOS overhead.

The new machines coming do all of this in the 7-15 second range from a cold start. Less using Intel Rapid Start.

 

38 seconds. Stock HDD in Lenovo X220T.

 

something interesting I found is installing rapidboot slows my boot time and causes my T420 to hang right before it hits the welcome screen on a black screen for 15 seconds. couldn't figure it out for the life of me! I get 29 seconds from the time I type in my BIOS password so maybe 30-31 full. I have so much stuff on my computer and my taskbar icons take up half the taskbar at 1600x900.

 

After a fresh install with Samsung 830 128gb from the moment I press power into the windows screen (not the splash screen) is 21 secs. How the heck do you guys get 16?! :'(

 

What graphics driver are you using and how much ram is that? My graphics score is only 5.7...

 

I don't know what's up with rapidboot. When I installed it, boot up was slow and it take good 40 sec to load "windows" at the login screen, and then 10 secs to a usable desktop.

After removing rapidboot, i get 20 sec from power button to a usable desktop. Weird!

 

Two-three minute range from standby but it's probably due to system-taxing CAD/CAM programs. Waking up from sleep is a LOT faster.

Glad current version of Rapidboot loads my TrackPoint drivers - previous version didn't.

 

It's probably because Rapidboot has timers that wait until a service/program is loaded and since our SSD's load it instantly it sits and waits thinking the harddrive is still loading it. Just a guess haha

 

I'm using the latest Lenovo Drivers and 2x4GB of Kingston HyperX. (1600MHz)

Since I only have an i3, my HD3000 is weaker because its maximum Clock is 1,1GHz, while yours (i7) is 1,3GHz. My HD3000 is actually weaker than yours.

 

Ah it's that 1600mhz HyperX of yours. Mine is also 8gb but I'm using 1066mhz; been meaning to upgrade it but I didn't think it'd make THAT much of a difference. Daaaaang.

 

My graphics score is 6.4 - i5&HD3000,2x4GB.
JBN, if I'm not mistaken, HD3000 perform (much) better when memory is accessed dual channel. If you have only one 8GB memory stick in your system, then this is the answer for your 5.7, most probably.

 

I meant in boot times, . Not seeing as many ~10 seconds as I expected. Of course an SSD will beat an HDD in IOPS intensive work. The platter arm can only move so fast.

My system is loaded up with a bunch of huge software suites, some of which I don't use much if at all. Photoshop CS5 loads in 4-5 seconds for me, Acrobat Pro in 2. Word/Excel/PowerPoint load nearly instantaneously. Mathematica loads in 6, and Maple takes forever because it's Maple. Most of these don't seem very disk intensive, at least until they run out of RAM and have to page.

Not sure why anyone would realistically try and load everything on their system all at the same time, but SSDs will indeed fulfill that better.

Can't wait for nice RAM drive implementations though.