Question - M4 SSD With 3 Samsung Drives Is Slowing Down Windows Boot....

[Lord Kram]

Is it normal for my windows boot times to increase a fair bit with 3 other hard drives connected?
I have the main ssd as my 1st drive, then have the 1tb Samsung UJ version, then 1tb samsung SJ version, then the 2tb F4 UJ
Had a look on forums etc for any info on ssd's slowing down with other hard drives connected but could not see anything definitive
If I unplug the other hard drives and reboot, windows starts a bit faster but still not like it was when I 1st had it installed
TRIM is enabled as I checked it, and im sure I had bios set to ACHI mode when installing 1st time with no other hard drives connected
Any suggestions?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I guess OS will still need to initiate communication with the drives but I've not had any problems with two additional HDDs connected.. Not that i know because I'm happy with the response and not tried it without. That said it surely depends if anything in the startup process is accessing anything on the HDD.

 

[King Damager]

That said it surely depends if anything in the startup process is accessing anything on the HDD.

This I reckon!

My Force3 takes about 20 seconds (ish) to boot.

Now this is by no means slow, but is slower by 4/5 seconds than my boot without my WD Green and F3 plugged in..

All the programs that boot from SSD work within seconds, if I want full functionality of all programs takes maybe 1/2 seconds, so yeah think it will all depend on your startup...

kd

 

[Surveyor]

If you had any of the HDD's connected when you installed Windows on the SSD then some operating system files may have been inststalled on a HDD.

 

[Lord Kram]

Well im pretty certain that I had the ssd plugged in on its own at 1st as I wanted to sort the other drives out after
In a way it doesnt really matter about the boot times too much as before boot up time was over a min by the time all icons etc had loaded, now its almost instant once booted!
Will never look back now ive got this ssd, will get a much bigger size in the future if the price drops

 

[chaparral]

If I unplug the other hard drives and reboot, windows starts a bit faster but still not like it was when I 1st had it installed

Windows is always at it fastest when it first installed..


Windows updates, drivers , cache , temp files ,installed apps,games,browsers, etc etc slow it down over time