How long should a SSD boot-up take?

Hi all,

Installed a Crucial M500 240GB SSD into the HDD slot, and popped HDD into the optibay (after the other-way-around was given me hassles). Mid-2012 MBP i5.

I'm just curious about the boot-time? After I have put in my password, things fly like greased lightning. I have plenty off applets that need to load into my Bartender menu - and it's 12 seconds and all done - which is amazing and significantly faster than what it was before!

To be clear - this alone, together with the overall snappiness of launching apps etc., is worth the upgrade alone!

Having said that - it's what happens prior to my inserting the password, that still feels like it's taking as long as it always was... The 'grey-screen' part of things... It's no big deal, but I cannot but help thinking I might be missing something, given all the times I come across people talking about boot-times of under 15 seconds...

I'm easily looking at a minute on top of that...

Anyone else underwhelmed by their SSD wading through the Apple grey?

Thanks for all tips - that was fast! Will do all in the AM, and pop back with what happens!

DeltaMac said:

Make sure that your boot drive (the SSD) is selected in your System Preferences/Startup Disk pane.
Just that small tip may help noticeably with boot times.

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Bruno09 said:

Go to System Preferences / Startup Disk, and check that your SSD is actually selected as startup disk.

Then restart, you should get the login window in ~15 seconds.

Ninja'd !!

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Oh my shattered nerves!! ^^ worked instantly! Thank you so much - it flies! Wow!

Oh - hardly shutdown, being doing it more to simply try and see the amazing boot times promised by the SSD - and now I've seen it!

Finally beginning to appreciate why everyone saying a SSD "is the best upgrade you can make", is absolutely correct!