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Does windows 8 make SSD obsolete

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I ask this because windows 8 starts very rapidly on an old hard drive and the main reason I bought an SSD was for boot-up speed. I reinstalled windows 8 on my SSD but honestly it booted so fast on my hard drive I don't really see the point of an SSD anymore, esp the high capacity SSDs. I use my storage for games, movies and music. Since most of the games I play today are online, the connection speed becomes much more important than program load times off the storage drive. I did a google search about this and couldn't find any articles or forum topics about this.

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windows 8 uses a hybrid hibernation of the kernel so windows will start faster. i believe you can do something like 'shutdown -r -t 00' to do a full shutdown. so while windows 8 will boot up faster that isn't really what you want an ssd for. windows 8 still benefits from an ssd just like windows 7.

cletus_slackjawd said:
I ask this because windows 8 starts very rapidly on an old hard drive and the main reason I bought an SSD was for boot-up speed. I reinstalled windows 8 on my SSD but honestly it booted so fast on my hard drive I don't really see the point of an SSD anymore, esp the high capacity SSDs. I use my storage for games, movies and music. Since most of the games I play today are online, the connection speed becomes much more important than program load times off the storage drive. I did a google search about this and couldn't find any articles or forum topics about this.



Uhm... "wot"?

Since when is the only reason for an SSD boot-up speed? I like the fact that photoshop opens in less than a second now.

Also, just because you don't make use of the advantages does NOT mean that others don't either - I for one love having fast load screens in my mostly-singleplayer games.

Also, why does it matter? Unless you're just trying to start a flame war, I see no point to this.
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