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What is your boot times SSD owners?

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Flint12345

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Aug 12, 2010
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Hi,

I have a new 27" iMac 2.93ghz, 4G ram & SSD drive only. Out of the box with no new install it takes 50" to boot which feels kinda slower than I was expecting.

Any other owners of similar setup willing to share their boot times?

I am starting the clock from the moment the button is pressed till desktop pic appears.

Cheers

flint
 
Flint12345 said:
Hi,

I have a new 27" iMac 2.93ghz, 4G ram & SSD drive only. Out of the box with no new install it takes 50" to boot which feels kinda slower than I was expecting.

Any other owners of similar setup willing to share their boot times?

I am starting the clock from the moment the button is pressed till desktop pic appears.

Cheers

flint
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Start the clock as the spinning circle starts on the apple screen and stop when the dock arrives, that is the proper way to time your boot. My macbook with a 500gb 7200 drive boots in 29 secs, you should be getting 20 secs unless the drives apple have put in the new iMacs arnt as good as we hoped.
 
Doesn't sound right to me as m MacBook Pro 4,1 with a 200Gb 7,200rpm drive boots from off to desktop in 45 seconds. What I have found though, is if I keep my firewire sound card plugged in, this doubles the boot time, do you have anything firewire plugged in?
 
Did you set the startup disk in system preferences???

My imac with normal HDD boot up in less than 30 sec after set the startup disk.
 
what a dufuss

Thanks guys for info, bally555 magic. I hadn't set the startup drive.

Now same timing is 17" flat. New something wasn't right, thanks again.

flint
 
From power button pressed to startup, with Chrome, mail client, geektool up on the screen, and Istat 3 menus loaded in the menu bar is between 15 to 17 sec for me.:D

i5 with 8GB ram, Home folder moved to 1GB HD, everything else on SSD.
 
lothar250 said:
I thought you only had an SSD and no HDD?
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It doesn't matter. The Startup Drive wasn't set on mine either, and I have HDD-only.

Getting an SSD + 1 or 2TB HDD iMac very soon to replace this one. Very glad to hear you boot in 17 seconds flat. Quite awesome. :D
 
I'll time it when I get home tonight, but it's fast - on the order of 20 seconds or so on my 2.93GHz 27" i7.

I reinstalled the OS after I received the machine without any additional printer drivers, foreign languages, optional Asian fonts, Rosetta or X11 support. And I've got virtually no 3rd party extensions (i.e., no 3d party mouse drivers, etc.), only the MenuMeters preference pane and the Drobo control panel app.
 
To Partition or not?

loather250, that is correct I only have a SSD drive. By selecting it as startup drive in system pref as pointed out by kind bally555 it has reduced the start up time drastically!

Thanks telemark948, good to know this is around the normal boot time of other SSD (apple installed)owners.

On the weekend I will do what xraydoc has done & do a clean slimline fresh instal of OSX & see if this shaves any time off & will do it for extra space mainly.

Will partitioning the drive in 2 creating a smaller 50-75gig space have any adverse effect on overall performance considering such a small drive & it being SSD?

I do not intend on filling the OSX side more than say 50-60%. Just want an area separate from system files for large files such as games & hd films etc.

ta
 
Based on some things that I read (but can't remember where), I think you're more likely to do harm than good by partitioning an SSD. Just leave it as one volume - there's really no reason to partition it.
 
Flint12345 said:
loather250, that is correct I only have a SSD drive. By selecting it as startup drive in system pref as pointed out by kind bally555 it has reduced the start up time drastically!
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I don't know what I'm missing, but what else would be selected as startup drive if the SSD is the only drive in your computer?

Oh and by the way, I don't loathe anything. I'm a very peaceful person.
 
lothar250 said:
I don't know what I'm missing, but what else would be selected as startup drive if the SSD is the only drive in your computer?

Oh and by the way, I don't loathe anything. I'm a very peaceful person.
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it might be defaulting to search for networked drives first - this is quite common, and adds a LOT of time to the boot.
 
I have an Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD and the original WD 1TB drive in my i7, boot time from SSD to a fully usable desktop is 13 seconds from the startup sound (automatic login enabled, and my usual login items in play). Note, however, that this requires a wired keyboard connected to the machine; otherwise there's a long delay looking for the wireless…

As for application start up times, they are practically instantaneous (icon doesn't bounce even once before the app is open).
 
sorry lothar250, typo glitches strike again & of course your a peaceful person cause our lovely Macs give us less headaches than the alternatives.

Arkku, that X25-M G2 just that bit faster again - good to know.

What I really like besides the speed is the perfect silence from a machine with no spinning hard drive- bliss.

Anyone partitioned their SSD & noticed any performance issues?
 
Arkku said:
I have an Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD and the original WD 1TB drive in my i7, boot time from SSD to a fully usable desktop is 13 seconds from the startup sound (automatic login enabled, and my usual login items in play). Note, however, that this requires a wired keyboard connected to the machine; otherwise there's a long delay looking for the wireless…

As for application start up times, they are practically instantaneous (icon doesn't bounce even once before the app is open).
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That makes sense to me. My MBP boots in about 25s (measured from hitting the on-button), with 80GB X25 G1.
I´ve the same SSD as you in my iMac, and it seems to have slower boottime. I´ve a Logitech diNovo and Performance MX attached wireless.
 
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