3 Things to Know About RAM and Boot Times

RAM amount has almost no effect on boot speed Boot time is dictated by your storage drive and motherboard initialization, not RAM capacity. Adding more RAM from 16GB to 32GB will not make your computer start up faster.

The OS loads from storage into RAM during boot More RAM does not speed up that transfer; it only gives you more space once the OS is running. Two identical machines with different RAM amounts will show at most a second or two difference.

Fast storage and BIOS settings matter for boot times A fast NVMe SSD over a SATA SSD will help. A BIOS that spends too long checking USB ports will slow things down. If boot times are slow, check your storage first.