Resolved Apple SSD boot time.

[Ice Dragon]

I was wonder for those that got the Apple SSD, is the boot time very fast or did you have to do a clean install for Lion to make it fast. Naturally I know it would be faster out of the box than a 5,400 or 7,200 rpm hard drive though I was just curious.

 

[happle]

why would you need to do a clean install of lion with a stock apple ssd? i have the toshiba ssd that apple gives and my boot times are very fast...

 

[Sasha-1]

My boot time is very fast. When I bought my SSD, I just made a SuperDuper clone of the original stock install, which I added CS5.5, Quark, Office 2011 and various other apps too. Did want to reinstall everything so I just cloned it to the SSD and swapped the drives.

Boot time is similar to coming out of sleep. Don't even bother with sleep since booting cold is so fast.

 

[Akack]

lightning fast.

 

[fisherking]

i made a custom startup screen, but never see it, am at the desktop really quickly...

 

[Gillespie81]

maybe 12-14sec with all the apps opening back up

 

[thundersteele]

A bit hard to time because I don't use auto-login, but it's around 20 seconds, including re-opening around 5 applications.

 

[ezramoore]

Sub 14 seconds to desktop.

 

[Ice Dragon]

why would you need to do a clean install of lion with a stock apple ssd? i have the toshiba ssd that apple gives and my boot times are very fast...

I would not unless it made a significant difference by cleaning out some of the original included files which it doesn't so question answered.