i love the ideo of extremely fast pcie ssd's like these as boot devices, but manufacturers are making booting from them sometimes a nightmare. could be very useful for pcie4.0 because those nvme drives are hot <litterally steaming hot. also most people arnt using 4 pcie devices.
Would be interesting to see a benchmark to see how much this sort of flash improves boot times, or whether you really need to be running a big database/server on it to see the benefits.
They won't improve boot times by much, because most of the boot time is not actually I/O bound.
https://elinux.org/Boot_Time - if you want to read some more. It's terrible that we still spend more than a second booting on average, but yeah. Mostly for reasons of legacy support.
The Intel Optane 900P/905P drives in my testing don't really reduce boot times much over standard NAND drives.
Loading applications and executing SQL queries against databases not in memory, they're in a completely different league, though. Am really looking forward to more affordable low latency drives as for my workflows (enterprise applications with large DBs), they do make quite a significant difference.
Personally I don't understand boot time measurements at all. I need to reboot my computer about once a month for security patches and driver updates. Why would I care if it takes few seconds more or less?
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austinsguitar - Monday, August 5, 2019 - link
i love the ideo of extremely fast pcie ssd's like these as boot devices, but manufacturers are making booting from them sometimes a nightmare. could be very useful for pcie4.0 because those nvme drives are hot <litterally steaming hot. also most people arnt using 4 pcie devices.stephenbrooks - Monday, August 5, 2019 - link
Would be interesting to see a benchmark to see how much this sort of flash improves boot times, or whether you really need to be running a big database/server on it to see the benefits.igavus - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
They won't improve boot times by much, because most of the boot time is not actually I/O bound.https://elinux.org/Boot_Time - if you want to read some more. It's terrible that we still spend more than a second booting on average, but yeah. Mostly for reasons of legacy support.
CallumS - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
The Intel Optane 900P/905P drives in my testing don't really reduce boot times much over standard NAND drives.Loading applications and executing SQL queries against databases not in memory, they're in a completely different league, though. Am really looking forward to more affordable low latency drives as for my workflows (enterprise applications with large DBs), they do make quite a significant difference.
zepi - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Personally I don't understand boot time measurements at all. I need to reboot my computer about once a month for security patches and driver updates. Why would I care if it takes few seconds more or less?Sleep-mode has been invented forever ago.