SSD is awesome , boot in 3 seconds

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I’m using an old laptop(5+ years), and my HDD was taking too long to boot, between 40 seconds and 1 minute, then I bought a SSD, opened the laptop and replaced the HDD(just remove and plug the SSD), here are the results:

systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 1.148s (kernel) + 1.953s (userspace) = 3.102s
graphical.target reached after 1.931s in userspace

3 seconds to boot, I’m using KDE now but I bet other DEs and distros have similar results, so between pushing the button to turn on the computer + login it takes about 10 seconds, that’s amazing.

It’s not just boot time, apps launch in 1 second or 2, a bit more heavy apps like LibreOffice launch in 3 seconds, it’s just fantastic, games boot faster too.

I highly recommend everyone buying a SSD, if you don’t use a lot of storage it can be a cheap upgrade and everything seems faster(buying more RAM or faster RAM helps too), just get a 120 or 240 GB SSD, install any distro with a pendrive and you are good to go. An alternative is putting all your system in a SSD and your files(/home) in a HDD because HDDs are cheaper, that might work well too.

@ssspacez I’m jealous now, my best time is a little less than 5 seconds.

NICE!! Fantastic! :D

Best upgrade I ever made was to an SSD!

what kind of a solid state drive did you get @JonPaul ?

@modisc Hi Modisc Samsung 850 Evo 250GB. Very good! Use my old 1TB Toshiba for data in the CD slot (laptop)

I forgot to say one could use the CD/DVD drive of a laptop and use it as an extra storage space, I’ve found a guide explaining how to do it:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/swap-laptop-dvd-drive-ssd-hdd/

It’s an interesting idea, I don’t use CDs or DVDs anymore, but you will need to buy a little piece, I think it’s called ‘caddy’ and put the extra SSD or HDD inside it.

Five years, how did you manage to keep it running for too long?
My laptop only lasted for 2-years, then afterwards I need to buy a new one.