Sandisk Extreme Pro Slow Windows Boot Times?

Honestly3K

Honestly3K

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Hi guys,

Recently bought a Sandisk Extreme Pro 480gb SSD for my pc.
I did a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit onto this drive, I have a few utility programs installed such as CCleaner, Hardware Monitor, CPU ID etc
I also have two games installed, including Titanfall.

Is it normal for this SSD (supposedly among the fastest on the SATA3 market to take so long to boot into windows? It takes about 35 seconds, I used to use an OCZ Vertex2 on SATA2 and while I didn't time this I am sure it was faster.

The BIOS is set to AHCI mode with the Asus ROG Logo screen disabled on boot up, the Sandisk SSD has the latest Firmware installed. I have it in the Intel controlled SATA6gbps port. I have run benchmarks on AS SSD on it and everything appears normal-

SEQ: Read 524mb Write 492mb
4K: Read 35mb Write 115mb
4K-64Thrd: Read 342mb Write 253mb
Acc.Time: Read 0.067ms Write 0.034ms

The full spec of my pc is:
i7 3770k
480gb Sandisk Extreme Pro as main OS, 2 games and some apps (about 80gb full)
1tb Samsung spinpoint as data (movies, its about 900gb full)
120gb OCZ Vertex 2 (empty)
16gb Corsair Vengence ddr3
Radeon 7950 3gb GPU
Corsair 750w PSU
Asus Maximus V Formula Z77 motherboard


Is there anything anyone can think of as to why its booting takes so long?

Thanks
 
do you have the SSD set as the first boot device in the bios? as it might be looking for other devices to boot from first
 
Thanks ED, I may actually have overlooked that returning the boot order after booting for the windows installation.
I believe its set to the Sandisk as first boot drive but I will double check
that when I get home.

Thanks
 
That's way too long. Is it waiting on hardware to respond or something? My Samsun 840 Pro is almost instant. The BIOS screen goes, Windows logo appears, logon appears all immediately. Maybe 4 or 5 seconds?

Last time i had a problem with Windows taking ages to boot as being caused by a USB drive. For some reason with it plugged in the machine took ages to boot. Maybe remove all USB peripherals and check?
 
I have a USB to micro USB cable plugged in the front of the pc. Other than that, its just mouse + keyboard + printer.

Once the windows logo pops on screen it is relatively fast taking about 5-7 seconds to get in windows and be ready to use but its just the bios loading up to that point or the POST sequence seems to take ages.

May do a W7 install on my vertex again and try that for comparison

Thanks
 
another thing to check is to make sure no external hard drives are connected. I have seen PC's trying and boot from these when they are connected to the PC.

mine takes about 10 seconds to boot on a Samsung evo 840
 
Infact it maybe worth mentioning that I did the original installation onto the drive when it was connected to the ASMEDIA SATA controlled port, but soon after swapped it to the INTEL SATA controlled port as it was operating slower whilst using the ASMEDIA one.

Maybe its worth me doing a reinstall from this port of windows
 
Recently had a similar problem, turned out 1 of my mechanical HDDs was failing. After I unplugged it, system was back to booting up fast
 
Honestly3K said:
Infact it maybe worth mentioning that I did the original installation onto the drive when it was connected to the ASMEDIA SATA controlled port, but soon after swapped it to the INTEL SATA controlled port as it was operating slower whilst using the ASMEDIA one.

Maybe its worth me doing a reinstall from this port of windows
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tried putting it back on the asmedia ports and uninstalling the driver? then switch it to the intel ports,also can you test without the ocz ssd attached

see if it boots quicker then
 
Thanks guys - an update....

Last night I noticed I had the ASMEDIA controllers installed under device manager, so I uninstalled these. Rebooted after and it had trouble booting from the sandisk even though it was set correctly as the first bootable drive. Kept saying 'switch to an applicable boot device, current device not supported' or something to that effect.

Even as I unplugged every other Sata device, 2x DVDRoms, and the other 2 data drives It was having problems booting from the Sandisk.

So I thought sod this, unplugged all disks and DVD roms. Installed Sandisk in primary Intel SATA port, and one DVD Rom drive.
Did a full reinstall of Windows 7. Which actually installed faster this time I thought.
After installing all motherboard drivers, I noticed with just the Sandisk plugged in boot times were around 17 seconds, rather than 35.
Plugged the Vertex2 back in, boot speed stayed the same.

Then, plugged in my Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB mechanical drive = boots back up to around 35 seconds.

I only tried this once and went to bed. Will test some more when I get home.

I have noticed that for a very long time (probably a year or two) my mechanical disk has been making this odd clicking sound, and also when accessing programs sometimes there is a lag in windows of around 2-3 seconds then It will catch up.

I did google the model and apparently they are glitchy like that but I really don't know.

Sorry for the essay.

Maybe I should think about swapping out the drive?
 
I read this thread about a FW update but from what I can see there isn't any FW from any reliable source online.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/269781-32-hd103uj-firmware

I've actually just ordered a WD 1tb Blue today for £43. Hopefully should cure the laggy access and delayed booting. It has reviews.

Will see how I get on, worst comes to the worst I wont bother having any mechanical drives in my rig. Ive just got 900gb of movies on my mechanical but I can live without them for now!
 
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