I got my new iMac 27' with fusion drive.
Everything looks great expect booting time.
The booting time is about 40 sec.
Is it normal or not ?
Takes 4 sec to get to the apple and 6.5 sec to get to desktop. 3tb fusion 3.4 i7
Basically it screams.
I got my new iMac 27' with fusion drive.
Everything looks great expect booting time.
The booting time is about 40 sec.
Is it normal or not ?
I got my new iMac 27' with fusion drive.
Everything looks great expect booting time.
The booting time is about 40 sec.
Is it normal or not ?
On my MBPro I had a slow startup caused by the start up disk not being selected correctly.
Go to System Prefs > Startup Disk.
Make sure you have the correct HD highlighted.
That does not sound right at all, to put things into perspective (I'm waiting for my iMac) my Macbook Air boots in around 8 seconds including unlocking the disk - I never even see the wheel. My Windows 8 PC off SSD boots in around 15 seconds so 40 seconds seems unbelievable to me.
Like everyone has said, remove any programs you have installed which may have background processes running which could cause this. Otherwise, make yourself a Genius Appointment and take it up with Apple.
yeah i did like this and now
booting time 14 sec
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this is first booting time i did not install any programs
Should OSX actually not pick this up automatically? I am going to try it out when I get home tonight, but I thought OSX should be smart enough to automatically place the OS in fusion drive
yeah i did like this and now
booting time 14 sec
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this is first booting time i did not install any programs
That's not the issue. Yes the OS will be on the SSD portion of the Fusion drive. The problem, is if an incorrect drive (or no drive) is selected as the Start up disk in the Start up disk preferences, then the EFI has to check all of the drives attached to your computer and determine which one has a valid OS and then boot from there. If it has a drive ear marked as the boot, then it just goes straight to that and boots. You can tell when this is a problem, because it just sits at the gray screen at bootup for about 30 seconds....
On my MBPro I had a slow startup caused by the start up disk not being selected correctly.
Go to System Prefs > Startup Disk.
Make sure you have the correct HD highlighted.
yeah i did like this and now
booting time 14 sec
Sad to say this does not work for me. Should I see more than Macintosh HD OS X, 10.8.2? Going to re-install OSX and see what happens then
Glad to hear it worked. Rarely my setting gets forgotten (but I do have 3 possible OS's/drives to boot from...)
Sorry to hear it didn't work. Either reinstall, or make a clone of your system to a partition on the same drive (or a FW external), select that and test.
...Actually, I'm not sure how the Fusion drive behaves when you partition it...Is it even possible to do so? How does it decide which partition is on which drive (SSD vs HD)?
I'd be interested to know...not that I have a fusion drive...yet.
I just setup my new 27" iMac with a Fusion drive. My Boot times are horrible. It takes 2 1/2 minutes from the time I push the power button to when the login prompt appears. I measure these with my watch (format "minute:second").
Time Delta Event
0:00 0:00 Pushed start button
0:04 0:04 Chimes ring and grey screen appears
1:19 1:15 Flashing globe appears
2:21 1:02 Apple icon appears
2:30 0:09 Login prompt appears
I don't think this is from any software I have loaded. When I first booted it up after taking it out the box, it took such a long time to start the startup assistant that I thought it was hung. It eventually started with the flashing globe, something I've never seen before (is this tied to location services?).
I did have the memory upgraded to 24 GB by the store where I bought it. So, they must have turned it on to test that, but somehow restored it to the factory state.
Any ideas?