Will my optical drive slow down my boot?

Wiltzz · Mar 17, 2018

Hey guys! I am looking to buy in the future, an optical drive, a card reader, and a fan controller for my PC, however I heard that these slow down boot. At least, the optical drive does. The optical drive is connected to the board using SATA power, as I'm sure you'd know. The card reader is connected using a USB 3.0 internal header. The fan controller is connected using a standard USB internal header. It may also help to know that I boot off an SSD, and that my optical drive is going to be connected to a PCIE powered sata card. Though I am not doubting that the optical drive may slow down the boot times, I want to know by how much. Will my card reader and fan controller also slow down my boot times? Thanks.

Optical Drive: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0033Z2BAQ/?tag=pcpapi-20
Card Reader: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D31V2L8/?tag=pcpapi-20
Fan Controller: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B9618C2/?tag=pcpapi-20
SSD: https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=SHSS3_240G&c=CJ
Sata Card: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BYB33VQ/?tag=pcpapi-20

My whole build (Everything else is in my PC, except for the optical drive, card reader, and fan controller) https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mY6d6s

USAFRet · Mar 17, 2018

A optical drive will not slow down your boot time unless you really work at it.

IF it is in the boot order, above your actual boot drive
and IF there is a DVD in it....then maybe it will slow the thing down by a second or two at boot time.

Karadjgne · Mar 17, 2018

Not sure why it's a question. Does that extra 2 seconds on boot really matter so much? Extraneous software added on top of windows is what slows boot down the most.

Vanilla windows on my ssd with a card reader, hdd, optical etc takes @8 seconds before internet is viable. Once I added in all the rest of the stuff that starts, like Adobe, office, realtemp, SpeedFan, nvidia control panel etc etc etc my boot went to @23 seconds. Coming from someone who has been using hdds for 20+ years as primary boot device, and a tape drive before that, where boot could take upto 10 minutes (wife's pc at work averages 7-9 minutes, but that's because of network traffic) I can live with 23 seconds. What's the issue?

4745454b · Mar 17, 2018

You are worried about a DVD drive slowing down boot, but you have a SATA PCIe card? That slows down boot, probably more than the DVD. I nearly never reboot my system so I couldn't care what the boot time is. if you have PCIe cards installed I wouldn't worry about a drive.

Wiltzz · Mar 17, 2018

Karadjgne :

Ah, nothing really, I was just curious of the extent it may slow it down, as I've never used an optical before.

Wiltzz · Mar 17, 2018

4745454b :

Thanks for the clarification. I'm not too concerned over the amount of time, but I have read about some experiences where the optical slows down the system quite a bit. Well glad that's out of the way.

Wiltzz · Mar 17, 2018

USAFRet :

Ah I see. Thanks for the response. I now know what not to do when installing my optical drive lmao.

4745454b · Mar 17, 2018

In general an optical drive shouldn't really slow you down. It should be no worse than a disk drive in your system. It does need to load some data, but it's really small. Expansion cards like your SATA card would slow things down way more than a drive would. In all you really shouldn't notice much difference.

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