Very slow boot times for SSD

[Engineer]

@Engineer: JOOC, what is your boot drive?

I should have included system specs:

Core I5 - 2500K
16GB of PC1600 ram running at PC1333 speeds (I think).
Biostar P67 board
Corsair Force GT 180GB SSD - AHCI single drive on SATA III (6Gbps)
2 - Hitachi 2TB - 5400 rpm storage drives
GTX460 video card (don't remember specs)
Seasonic 650W Gold X series power supply

I ran several tests and it was either 14 or 15 each time.

 

[Burner27]

I ran BootRacer and mine comes up with 16 seconds. I have 2 x 256GB Crucial M4s in RAID 0.


Nanaki333--YOU sold me one of them!!!

 

[ChairShot]

my booting sequence sucks as well, it hangs up at the W7 logo for a couple of seconds... (5 to 10).

OCZ 120gig SSD on ASUS P5Q-e

 

[jimpatrick]

i was having the same issue after full format my system boots 7-8sec after post til desktop after installing a lot of drivers i restarted it and got stuck at the windows logo for 50sec!when i reached desktop i verified that it really freezes there,i did 3 more restart and yes its stuck.went to msconfig>services>removed the check on intel management and i forgot the other one :hmm: but intel as well,restarted and my system went back to 7-8secs boot time :awe:.24secs using restart time script.

 

[groberts101]

one of the most simplistic troubleshooting techniques for these types of issues is to boot into safe mode. That will often result in near immediate gain/resolution for some and helps to narrow things down more quickly.

Another easy technique is to do away with the AHCI drivers and swap over to the IDE versions(via reg hacks) prior to doing a quick bios change. Drivers have been the culprit for these types of issues more often than not and running in IDE will often source them out more quickly.

Also consider the fact that many users will go outside their mobo mfgrs available driver DL's to get the most current versions available. Not always the most successful way to go about it as many find out the hard way.

 

[VirtualLarry]

So I used to have 2x 256GB M4s in raid0 as my OS drive, and you would think they'd boot super fast.... NOT! After POST, and the Windows 7 loading screen comes up... It takes a good 20 seconds to get past it and in to the desktop.

Now, I know TRIM isn't possible with raid SSDs. Knowing that, I run the TonyTrim to keep it clean. My OS array is barely 30% full, and I run FancyCache with deferred write set to 3600 seconds to limit the random writes to the drives. I learned to live with it since I usually just sleep my PC, and that at least comes out quick.

You do know that TonyTrim (writing sectors full of 0xFFs) ONLY works for the original Indilinx Barefoot controllers, right? Other SSDs, you are just wearing them out for no reason. And writing all spare sectors, without TRIM, is just going to make things worse, much worse.