Boot time increase per drive

[Kyle]

Hi, I'm getting an ssd and am going to boot windows 8 X64 off it. I was wondering how much boot time would be added to my system for every other rotating drive that I put into the machine. Even if they don't have boot files on the drives (ie. Media drives)

 

[jamesriley94]

It isn't really a question anyone can answer. It will depend on the specifics of your PC.
With an SSD, you'll have far faster boot times than HDD though - you'll be blown away by it. Don't worry about more devices being added unless they really do cause the system to hang

 

[Kyle]

But how long (on an average build) would it take to recognise each drive even if it wasn't reading data of it?

 

[I Hunta x]

Less than 1 sec per drive tbh and that being VERY generous with rounding up as its probably more like 0.1 sec... , only thing that will add even a noticeable amount of time is having a raid setup where it has all that stuff to load when it boots.

 

[Kyle]

Alright thanks for your reply