Why doesn't my SSD system boot faster?

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xp3nd4bl3

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I put a 160GB Intel X25-M in my Macbook Pro and it boots very close to instantly. After the POST it's literally just a few seconds before I'm on the desktop. Not so, however, with my Core i7 system which boots Windows 7 off TWO Intel 32GB X25-E drives in RAID0. Vista booted even slower. Is this just a Windows problem? I'm trying to figure out why my OS doesn't boot more quickly.

Any ideas?
 
Could be raid. Raid controller initialization can sometimes take 30 or 40 seconds alone.
 
xp3nd4bl3 said:
I like it, I will try loading the OS on a single drive.
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You do know that will mean faster windows load times, but less performance when loaded right?

I don't care about Windows boot times, those are irrelevant e-peen-idiocracy...I care about the perfromance AFTER I have booted up.
 
I had the same issue when I was running my WD black 640gb drives in RAID 0 in my desktop. When raided, the boot took way longer (green bar passing screen). I unraided them and used one drive, finding the load time to be nearly half as long.

Now, as of yesterday, i'm running a single vertex 60gb in the same system. And while boot times are a bit faster than my single wd black, they're not all that fast. The bar still passes 3-4 times. it is an acronis disk image though, I might try a fresh install tomorrow.
 
Atech said:
You do know that will mean faster windows load times, but less performance when loaded right?
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Not really
Only thing that will suffer is your Sequential reads and writes, and those dont really matter for "real-world" applications.
Yor IOPS are less but they are so high with just one SSD, that unless your running a Database it really doesnt matter.
 
My X25-e boots Win7 in under 15 seconds - IF I disregard the ICH10r boot bios crap.
 
I have a 60 Gig Vertex in my Fujitsu laptop with a single core processor, and it takes about 20 seconds from hitting the power button to the login prompt.

After windows loads, do the drives benchmark slow?

Don
 
Yea I have the 120gb in my dual core laptop, and it takes about 15 seconds from hitting the power button.
If its asleep it take less than 2 seconds.
Really quite amazing.....soon enough the computer will not be the bottleneck anymore...it will be the user.
 
DonDon said:
I have a 60 Gig Vertex in my Fujitsu laptop with a single core processor, and it takes about 20 seconds from hitting the power button to the login prompt.

After windows loads, do the drives benchmark slow?

Don
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Here's mine in vista, drive is nearly half full at this point.

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I'm happy with it.
 
Don't forget that a lot of the Windows boot time is driver detection. If you watch the HD activity LED of your system while booting, you'll notice that it spends a good portion of the time not on, so even the fastest disk system wouldn't speed it up.

Linux is the same way, about half the boot time is the kernel initialization before it even loads the disk drivers to start reading from the disk and launching services. Newer kernels have dramatically sped this up though.

I'm guessing MacOS can be faster in this regard because it only runs on their hardware, so not as many drivers to initialize, and they can highly optimize it to boot fast on their machines.
 
If you have WinXP, use BootVis to get a list of what is taking up time for windows bootup. If you don't see anything that accounts for the load time in the list, then your delay is happening before windows is loaded.
 
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