1 min boot time SSD !?

[Jay123]

I have recently purchased a OCZ Agility 4 64GB and it's start-up time are around 1 min, this is from pressing the button to getting into Windows. I've done the standard things like checking AHCI, checking TRIM, reducing the amount of start-up programs (I currently only have Rocket Dock and Steam) etc.

I've ran multiple virus scans and cleaned the drive of any unused files, should I wipe the drive and see if times improve?

BTW I'm using SATA 2

[Jay123]

Crystal Disk Mark

[Guest]

Are you by chance using a third party SATA 2 port?

[xkronusx]

Do you have a good set of drivers? Maybe a bad sata cable?

[Helltech]

Did you copy your windows installation over or did you install fresh. If you copied it over, that is why.

[Jay123]

Are you by chance using a third party SATA 2 port?

Not sure? what do you mean?

[Jay123]

Do you have a good set of drivers? Maybe a bad sata cable?

I've used multiple cables in multiple ports and I'm checking for driver updates now

[Jay123]

Did you copy your windows installation over or did you install fresh. If you copied it over, that is why.

No, it's a fresh install

[Guest]

Are you by chance using a third party SATA 2 port?

There are Intel ports that run off the main chipset then there are third party controllers from Marvel and the like that some people find especially for boot drives to be very slow.

[Flamewalker]

Might be a silly question but what is the actual load time of when you start seeing it load windows till it gets in?

Because for example in my case, most of my load time is just drives beeing detected/ raid controller ,and regular bios stuff before actually reaching windows to load. (while the actual load time from seeing windows load till getting in is 6 seconds ish)

[Jay123]

Are you by chance using a third party SATA 2 port?

My manual doesn't tell me which are 3rd party so it's going to be a case of trial and error

[Jay123]

Do you have a good set of drivers? Maybe a bad sata cable?

I've updated to the latest OCZ firmware but I can't find any updates for my my mobo (ASUS M5A78l-M LX), I think it's discontinued :(

Forget that last bit, mobo is now on latest BIOS

[GoodBytes]

Wait Wait wait... your time is from when you press the power button... not Windows actually starting.

And I see that you are on SATA-2.. that means you computer is "old".. at least old enough to NOT have full supported UEFI.

That means it's still using the BIOS. The BIOS is very slow. Fancier your motherboard, the more time the BIOS takes at starting Windows.

You can get to the BIOS screen, and start disabling SATA controllers you don't use, and any other component you don't use. And make sure quick boot is enabled. This will BIOS boot process faster.

For us to know if there is a problem, you need to start counting when Windows is starting to the desktop. But else than that.. it's the BIOS.

Your SSD performance is normal. Your motherboard only has SATA-2. But that is fine. You should not be concerned about this, and does not relate in the slowness you experience.

What I mean, is that that sequential read/write is something that you very rarelly do. Like when you move or duplicate a large file. Your games, Windows starting up, your programs all uses a lot of smaller files.. so 4K on Crystal Disk Mark. As you can see, you are very far from the theoretical 250MB/s limit of SATA-2

What Windows are you using?