Big Al's CarPC Build

[ben54b]

Great looking project. Pity about the breakage.

Do these pcs have the same slow startup times of a home PC. ( sorry if that is the stupidest question ever )


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[BigAl205]

Great looking project. Pity about the breakage.

Do these pcs have the same slow startup times of a home PC. ( sorry if that is the stupidest question ever )


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I honestly don't know yet...it's going to have a solid state hard drive, so it should be pretty fast. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro which boots up pretty fast, and that's with the pre-installed bloatware.

[Serieus]

on my last build with dual Samsung 840 evos in raid0, the longest bit for booting was POST. after that windows popped up real quick. board was an asus, I think some others POST faster

[BigAl205]

Just curious, does RAID have any effect on boot time itself?

[Psyko]

Just curious, does RAID have any effect on boot time itself?

It can the system must initialize the RAID controller on start up depending on the controller and motherboard the amount of time can very a bit. Even with a UEFI boot loader your RAID controller will still load at start up.

CarPC's in general are unique because some features included with your motherboard you will most likely never use. I would go through the BIOS and disable any controllers you’re not going to use like esata disabling these will speed up the post process. You could also strip out services included in Windows that are useless in a CarPC. Using a UEFI loader will also speed up boot time too although UEFI has some trade-offs it shouldn't be a problem in a carPC. Overall you should end up with a quick start up time sadly I'm unfamiliar with this chipset and CPU. If I had to guess I would say you should be able to get sub 10 second boot times without too much trouble.

[Serieus]

like psyko aaid, I think raid would actually slow it down, the raid controller probably takes longer than the speed gains you get. with that said, i never tried it without raid, it was purely for combining the drives into a single partition.

[dejo]

usually windows startup times come back to the 4k read capability of the ssd. Raid usually doesnt help with the performance at that file size, so I would guess that startup times would suffer a bit. I would expect startup times to be pretty good as it is

[BigAl205]

Just to clarify, I wasn't looking at doing RAID, I was just curious in general.

[dejo]

I have 2 identical ssd's and dont raid them for the fact that boot time is slower. You can gain some transfer speeds if you are moving files from another similar speed raid setup. and can gain some read speeds, but dont think that matters for what you are doing

[bobditts]

you have or are you getting one of these?

http://www.rcjoycon.com/base_3/menu_...m_board_idx=14