SSD boot up time

Hawksworth · 21 Nov 2011 at 13:28

Hola

My windows 7 boot up time is about 30-35 seconds with my new ssd. While that's an improvement on my old hdd time I had heard boot up speeds of 10-15 seconds being touted. I have the small upgrade (64gb), is this about par for my ssd?

Also I installed World of Warcraft to the ssd but can't see any noticeable decrease in time from pushing play to the login screen (if anything it seems to take longer if that's even possible).

Regards

LtMatt · 21 Nov 2011 at 13:31

Did you enable ACHI mode in bios before installing the ssd and operating system?

Hawksworth · 21 Nov 2011 at 13:36

LtMatt said:
Did you enable ACHI mode in bios before installing the ssd and operating system?

I didn't install anything except the graphics card, just bought the system from oc (yes should have built my own, maybe next time

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EGuitarStar · 21 Nov 2011 at 14:30

Run some of the SSD benchmark tools and see what your read / write speeds are, I would have expected OCUK to enable ACHI on a prebuilt system.

Which system did you buy and/or what are the specs?

Tackle_Berry · 21 Nov 2011 at 14:33

That does seem too long for an ssd but without your other specs it's hard to tell.

Boss_man · 21 Nov 2011 at 14:39

also get latest firmware for drive and tweak boot menu in bios

Admiral Huddy · 21 Nov 2011 at 14:44

Ash2097 said:
That does seem too long for an ssd but without your other specs it's hard to tell.

Yes. If you are using the Z68 chipset and Intel's Smart Response has been enabled, it could be the building the cache.. This is a feature of the chipset and of the RST drivers.

Hawksworth · 21 Nov 2011 at 17:23

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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/21/2011, 17:21:25
Machine name: MARK-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: Z68AP-D3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4014MB RAM
Page File: 1425MB used, 6598MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

These are my specs, I have GTX 570 graphics card. Also how do i go about getting firmware please?

-=Vect0r=- · 21 Nov 2011 at 19:14

Those speeds seem about right tbh assuming you are quoting the time between pressing the powerbutton to reaching the usable desktop. I boot from an M4 128Gb.

The 10-15 sec time you quote is of people timing the boot after the POST which in my case is 20s!

Admiral Huddy · 21 Nov 2011 at 22:11

Ok so you have the Z68 chipset, Check if you have Intel RST running. Click on the task bar hidden icons (bottom right). It will be a drive with either a red cross or green tick. Click on it to load the control panel. Check if Smart Response is enabled

mrk · 21 Nov 2011 at 23:13

-=Vect0r=- said:
Those speeds seem about right tbh assuming you are quoting the time between pressing the powerbutton to reaching the usable desktop. I boot from an M4 128Gb.

The 10-15 sec time you quote is of people timing the boot after the POST which in my case is 20s!

Yup, pretty much exactly that! My P67A-G45 takes 12 seconds to get from Power On, through POST and to the start of loading Windows. It's about another 15 seconds after that point when the desktop is fully loaded. Maybe less actually, it booted so fast compared to the HDD the same install was on before that I was so impressed I never even bothered to accurately time beyond that point

Hawksworth · 22 Nov 2011 at 00:46

Admiral Huddy said:
Ok so you have the Z68 chipset, Check if you have Intel RST running. Click on the task bar hidden icons (bottom right). It will be a drive with either a red cross or green tick. Click on it to load the control panel. Check if Smart Response is enabled

Hmm, I don't seen to have that in the hidden icons, the only ones there are realtek, nvidia, logitech and Kaspersky.

Sasahara · 22 Nov 2011 at 01:35

Hawksworth said:
Hola

Also I installed World of Warcraft to the ssd but can't see any noticeable decrease in time from pushing play to the login screen (if anything it seems to take longer if that's even possible).

Regards

Play to login doesn't load much, that's more down to your PC speed, where you should find a difference is during game play in busy areas, assuming you play on high settings.

Kingy1968 · 22 Nov 2011 at 09:07

Hi can anyone tell me if the Intel Sata ACHI controller and the standard ACHI Serial ATA controller should be running together or not???

I was just wondering as I have tried my machine with the Intel RST driver installed and also with then uninstalled and I cant see any difference.

Ive also tried Crystaldisk hard drive speed test and theres no difference there either..

So do I need these RST installed or not??

By the way all I have in my machine is the Crucial M4 128gb for my boot, 2 x 2 Samsung Sata internals and 2 LG Bluray writers internal..

Thanks guys

mrk · 22 Nov 2011 at 09:25

I'm pretty sure that's how mine looks.

RST driver should be installed, it's a small background process and uses next to no resources but it ensures everything runs according to spec anyway. It also has the RST front end giving info on connected drives and toast info on hot swapped drives.