Vertex SSD's slow boot

Swiftlegend

Swiftlegend

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I have 3 30Gb vertex ssd's in raid 0 and in atto are getting 700mb/s but vista 64bit takes a long time to boot (2 minutes +) is this normal? i think faceplantsi boots up in around 20 seconds also with the 3 vertex's. Any suggestions would be helpful;)
 
I think there are some settings you should have done on the drives, before installing and OS. But i know there are also many tweaks in the OS which can improve performance. Check around the forums, i dont know the details.
 
I have 1 60gb vertex and mine will close and reboot in 60secs. with most of that being bios.(seems slow on the UD5)

From when it says starting windows it takes just over 20 secs.

Thats a new build with windows7

Now my old system running xp that is a few years old takes over 3 mins from switch on to usable but thats got loads of rubbish running in the background

Matt
 
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Swiftlegend, please do not post duplicate threads.

Regarding your problem though, how long does it take to boot into Windows starting from the Windows Vista boot menu i.e. when the screen appears that says Microsoft Corporation and with the green bar moving from left to right?
 
From what you've said your speed once in Windows sounds good, so the issue must lie in either BIOS or some other attached hardware.

Are you using the blue SATA ports? Don't plug any of the drives into the black JMicron one. I would try disabling the JMicron controller in BIOS if that's poss (that will mean your eSATA and IDE won't work, but for most that shouldn't be a prob).

What other devices are using the SATA ports? Try removing them and see if boot improves.

Could also try a BIOS update.
 
Sorry to Hijack

I have plugged my 2xF1's that i use for my games into the Jmicron sockets on my UD5 I'm assuming now I would get better results moving them to the spare normal ones.

Matt
 
mattyg said:
Sorry to Hijack

I have plugged my 2xF1's that i use for my games into the Jmicron sockets on my UD5 I'm assuming now I would get better results moving them to the spare normal ones.

Matt
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For mechanical drives I'd have to say you will se little or no diference, the issue with SSD's is just that they use so much bandwidth using the ich10r ports is noticably better than the jmicron raid ports.

EDIT: As to the OP's problem I'd have to put it down to device timouts, windows "shouts out" to everything it finds in the pc and waits for a response, I believe this can be as long as 30 seconds so any unused stuff such as network ports, ide ports etc with nothing attached can slow down the boot time of windows as it waits for each one to time out. Try disabling any of these you can think of in the bios you wont miss them if you aren't planning to use them and it could help (same deal with raid controllers; IDE controller if 100% sata in use, these can also slow down getting through the bios initialisation part of your boot up) Failing that you can also tweak windows to reduce the time it waits for these timeouts, if you google "windows boot speed up" or similar you should come up with links to utilities to do it or places telling you how to do it manually.
 
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I go from post screen to completely booted in vista in 26 secs with just one drive so I'd say it's your raid setup that is the problem. I was getting those speeds without any tweaks whatsoever.

I have heard of this problem before though, I think it was on the OCZ forums. Have you tried searching around on there? You don't have to sign up to search their forums.
 
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