maxspeed Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Is it any faster to install win 7 from a usb stick or is it faster installing from a dvd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuhoatu Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 +1 for installing from USB. It take me only 15 min instead of 25 min from DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenskas Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 With a flash drive you don't have to wait for the disk to spin up often, and a USB memory stick makes no noise too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReasonIFail Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) USB gets my vote too!! As long as the PC has USB2, that's how I install all my OS's. Edited November 17, 2009 by TheReasonIFail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Indeed - USB 2.0 installs are quite a bit faster than DVD-based installations. I wouldn't necessarily suggest it on a machine with USB 1.1, but 2.0 seems to be plenty fast enough to best DVD transfers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 it will be interesting to see a USB 3.0 install i'll get to try it out with my new motherboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Please also note that USB 2.0 generally is NOT the bottleneck in the transfer speed, different sticks/controllers may make MUCH difference.See this (oldish now) comparison:http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/usb-...d-and-compared/this should be the most meaningful graph (though of course actual read rates may change greatly depending on size of files and other factors):http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/wp-content/...fer-rates-4.jpgbut the difference between "good" sticks at around 30 MB/s and "bad" ones at around 10 MB/s is a BIG difference!According to FAQ #4 here:http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htmthe BUS axtually tops at around 40 MB/s.As well filesystem used DOES make a difference:http://www.msfn.org/board/fat16-vs-fat32-v...ck-t125116.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomneac Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I've also noticed that the file sizes make a huge difference, and there is a large discrepency between reading and writing (not applicable when installing an OS) to a USB flash drive.My Corsair Flash Voyager 64 GB will read at over 24 Mbit/s via USB 2.0, yet I can only write to it at a measly 3-5 Mbit/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 (edited) With pricing around $150 for 64GB SSD, eSATA is my choice, that should make the destination drive a bottleneck.Doesn't get much faster than that, unless someone figures a way to mount the entire DVD in RAM. Wasn't there a 512MB limit on the 2K3 RAM-ISO driver, has this been over-come and I just don't know about it ? Edited November 18, 2009 by MrJinje Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I've also noticed that the file sizes make a huge difference, and there is a large discrepency between reading and writing (not applicable when installing an OS) to a USB flash drive.My Corsair Flash Voyager 64 GB will read at over 24 Mbit/s via USB 2.0, yet I can only write to it at a measly 3-5 Mbit/s.Yep, smaller files mean slower speed, see this as a quick reference:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=9347&st=15If you are "runnning" on flash device, this may (or may completely fail to ) help:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8757With pricing around $150 for 64GB SSD, eSATA is my choice, that should make the destination drive a bottleneck.Doesn't get much faster than that, unless someone figures a way to mount the entire DVD in RAM. Wasn't there a 512MB limit on the 2K3 RAM-ISO driver, has this been over-come and I just don't know about it ?Yes there was:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=9474&hl=And yes it has. You are now outdated. Firadisk:http://www.msfn.org/board/6-t137714.htmlhttp://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=94But of course you need lots of RAM and the time to transfer the data to RAM is anyway needed.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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