Hard Drive slowing down PC?

[John98ZaKaRia]

Hello there!

Today I decided to put my old HDD I to my system so I could benefit from it

So I installed it and immediately noticed something

My boot time has increased from 3 sec to 10! And the only way I achieve the fast boot is by removing that old drive

I am using a Seagate SSHD as boot drive

And the other drive is an old WD blue 16 mb cache

Does this make my motherboard slow down the data port to match the old drive?

[Senzelian]

Hello there!

Today I decided to put my old HDD I to my system so I could benefit from it

So I installed it and immediately noticed something

My boot time has increased from 3 sec to 10! And the only way I achieve the fast boot is by removing that old drive

I am using a Seagate SSHD as boot drive

And the other drive is an old WD blue 16 mb cache

Does this make my motherboard slow down the data port to match the old drive?

I think what happens is that your system waits until all drives give an OK and are operating.

So if your second drive needs longer to spin up and be ready it'll slow down your whole rig.

But that's more or less just a theory. Maybe someone else knows what's going on...

[KraftDinner]

I don't see why it would slow down the boot time if you're not loading the OS from the older drive / you don't have any system files on it. You have reformatted the drive right?

[Curufinwe_wins]

I don't see why it would slow down the boot time if you're not loading the OS from the older drive / you don't have any system files on it. You have reformatted the drive right?

 

Hello there!

Today I decided to put my old HDD I to my system so I could benefit from it

So I installed it and immediately noticed something

My boot time has increased from 3 sec to 10! And the only way I achieve the fast boot is by removing that old drive

I am using a Seagate SSHD as boot drive

And the other drive is an old WD blue 16 mb cache

Does this make my motherboard slow down the data port to match the old drive?

 

 

There is an option in your motherboard bios that says something like initialize all sata devices or initialize only boot devices. If you select boot only device then everything will still work fine once it's started but the computer should be back to the normal boot speeds.

[John98ZaKaRia]

Well I am not counting in the bios load time

Only the windows spin time

[Curufinwe_wins]

Well I am not counting in the bios load time

Only the windows spin time

Try finding and changing that setting in bios and seeing if it helps. It should.

[John98ZaKaRia]

I don't see why it would slow down the boot time if you're not loading the OS from the older drive / you don't have any system files on it. You have reformatted the drive right?

Couple of boots and it was normal again 

I believe stuff had to go to the SSD part of the SSHD