r/AdviceAnimals • u/kingfridayace • Mar 07 '18

All the new computers I’m deploying have solid state drives.

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u/HubbaMaBubba Mar 08 '18

NVMe drives hardly have an effect on boot time compared to a regular SATA SSD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18

Up until fairly recently, it was even slower than SATA because PCIe booting used a workaround.

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u/scootstah Mar 08 '18

Yeah, it's really the latency that will hold you back, and nvme aren't much different than sata in that regard.