SSDs are wonderful. And slow BIOSs are a real drag.

Our primary MythTV box here, used to run on a mobo that took 45 seconds to POST before running the Linux bootloader, and then another half minute or so to boot from there. Some of the latter delay due to the older Linux distro it was built from.

The new mobo (from a few months back) POSTs within a couple of seconds, and boots very quickly from the SSD. A modern LinuxMint distro under the hood completes the package.

Boot time from pressing the Power button to having MythFrontend ready for playback: 20 seconds.

The Samsung "TV" monitor for the system takes almost that long to boot up from pressing its Power button. Mind you, it is based on an older Linux distro too.