Originally Posted by
XV105
Thanks, M-B. I have no doubt that SSD is the way to go but considering that it's not being frequently booted, the 70 seconds that I'm down to for no cost (okay a quid for the cable but even that was not really connected to tuning), is acceptable.
For the record; I usually cold boot, not from any of the suspend states, because the TV tuner gets its knickers in a twist if I try. If I don't need the TV tuner, boot from standby is less than 10 seconds.
No worries, I recognise your solution in bang-for-your-buck is unbeatable.
FWIW, I never trusted Windows XP's ability (and architecture) to suspend/hibernate and resume.....and whilst I flirted with suspending on Windows 7 and it worked fine, my one time where the SSD lost the entire data (at 2:30am, right in the middle of an overnight migration of a remote MS Exchange hosted server via RDP) convinced me never to do that again, so that 33 seconds is from cold too.