RAM amount barely affects boot times.

No. Boot time is almost entirely dictated by your storage drive (SSD vs HDD) and your motherboard’s initialization process. Adding more RAM — from 16GB to 32GB — won’t make your computer start up faster.

Here’s the thing: your system loads the OS from storage into RAM during boot. More RAM doesn’t speed up that transfer; it just gives you more space once the OS is running. If you’re comparing two identical machines with 16GB vs 32GB, you’ll see maybe a second or two difference at most — and that’s probably just measurement noise.

What will help boot times? A fast NVMe SSD over a SATA SSD, and making sure your BIOS doesn’t spend 10 seconds checking every USB port. RAM amount is for multitasking and heavy apps, not for starting up faster.

If your boot times are slow, check your storage first. RAM size is not the bottleneck.