Can some one please explain my Boot speed increase?

[hmca]

Coming out of S3 always took about 2 minutes from day 1. Recently I purchased Partition Manager and took my Media partition and converted it from 8K clusters to the recommended 64K. Then I defragged it to 0% defrag. I have never been able to degrag below 87% using XP Defrag.
Anyways after all this was done, now I can get the Sage screensaver in 30 seconds from S3! As I understand (or not) computers, what I did has nothing to do with an S3 boot since Windows and Sager are in a different partition. Now I am not complaining. I can remove the 2 minutes of padding on each show but I just don't have a clue what happened.

[stanger89]

First, it sounds like you're using hibernate and not S3, returning from S3 should be essentailly instantaneous. The difference is S3 maintains your memory state, in memory (hence instantaneous startup), while hibernate stores your memory state in a file on the HDD.

Now, why did it speed up? Because 64k clusters are more efficient for transferring large files. When you come out of hibernate, the PC reads your memory state from the hibernation file. Odds are the increased efficiency of larger clusters, and moreso the fact that your file isn't fragmented, decreased the time to read the memory image.

[deadtoaster2]

I dont know how well that windows defrag program works for you, it never worked very well for me and I found this program. Diskeeper9 Works great on my comp and theres a free trial as well.

[hmca]

I guess I am confused about the state my HTPC is in. I thought S1 was hard drive off, power still running and the fans running. S3 was save to disk with an almost complete power down save for the Ram. And this could be called Hibernate

[stanger89]

Here are the states:
S0 - On
S1 - Power on Suspend
S2 - (not usually implimented)
S3 - Suspend to Ram
S4 - Suspend to Disk (Hibernate)
S5 - "Soft Off" (Off)

You're in S4.

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