In part two of our series we benchmark adding more RAM, a RAM disk, on top of adding a solid-state drive. Learn how to speed up the boot time of your laptop with more RAM. Further Reading Optimizing the Boot Time of Lenovo T430S: Part I- SSD In our next article, we'll explore the effects of increasing the RAM and adding a RAM disk to this laptop. In our tests, boot times were cut by a factor of 4 and hard drive transfer speeds were increased by factors of 4.1 to 4.75. Upgrading your conventional hard drive to a solid state drive can inject new life into your computer. The author may explore upgrading to Windows 10 in a future article. Windows 10 reportedly can boot even faster and perform other operations faster. Upon startup, the information in the file is loaded to resume the system. When you shutdown, Windows partially hibernates storing the kernel session and device drivers in a file on the system drive. In the case of Windows 8, Microsoft made a concerted effort to improve boot times over Windows 7 with the Fast Startup feature.
Upgrading your operating system can often improve speed metrics, such as boot times. Note that these tests were run on Windows 8.1 with the latest updates. The specifications for the test laptop (model 23539LU) are shown in Figure 2, an i5 running at 2.6 GHz, 8GB of RAM, and a conventional 500GB hard drive running a 7200 RPM (Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500).įigure 8: Lenovo Thinkpad T430S Read Transfer Speed Improvement with SSD Windows Operating System Speed: 7 versus 8.1 and 10 The Thinkpad T430S came with either an Intel i3, i5, or i7 processor. If Lenovo does decide to build a retro Thinkpad, the author will be the first in line. There may be hope yet for retro Thinkpad fans out there, as Lenovo has floated (and surveyed) the idea of a retro Thinkpad, perhaps with trackpad buttons along a curved palm rest edge. While there are newer generation Thinkpads, the author prefers the curved ergonomic palm rest and trackpad buttons to their clickpad sharp-edged brethren (see Figure 1). In this article we'll explore optimizing the boot time of a Lenovo Thinkpad T430S with a well regarded solid state drive, the Samsung 850 PRO SSD (see Figure 1).
In a previous article we showed how to speed up the boot time of a netbook, moving from a Toshiba NB205 to a Toshiba NB525 and upgrading the latter with more memory and a solid-state drive. Figure 1: Lenovo Thinkpad T430S Boot Time Optimization with a SSD
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