15" MBP 2011 Vertex 2 slow?

[Anshi]

Hey all,

I have a 2011 15" MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz 8GB RAM with a Vertex 2 180GB SSD installed.

My start up time from pressing the power button to the login screen is 23 seconds. Isn't that too slow?

I have the start up disc properly selected, AHCI 1.3 enabled. The XBench benchmarks are as follows:

Results 391.91
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.7 (10J3250)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro8,2
Drive Type OCZ-VERTEX2
CPU Test 252.62
GCD Loop 333.15 17.56 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 223.61 5.31 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 161.32 5.32 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 462.65 80.56 Mops/sec
Thread Test 845.22
Computation 877.22 17.77 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 815.48 35.08 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 593.09
System 617.80
Allocate 953.79 3.50 Malloc/sec
Fill 429.15 20866.31 MB/sec
Copy 676.90 13981.16 MB/sec
Stream 570.29
Copy 556.31 11490.26 MB/sec
Scale 547.73 11315.89 MB/sec
Add 599.61 12772.91 MB/sec
Triad 580.39 12416.07 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 345.45
Line 300.32 19.99 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 391.22 116.80 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 329.45 26.85 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 336.80 8.49 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 387.08 24.21 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 398.41
Spinning Squares 398.41 505.40 frames/sec
User Interface Test 468.00
Elements 468.00 2.15 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 286.36
Sequential 172.42
Uncached Write 278.52 171.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 243.23 137.62 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 79.93 23.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 334.83 168.28 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 844.40
Uncached Write 1370.45 145.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 412.96 132.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2443.42 17.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 849.90 157.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]

AJA System test results:
245MBps Write and 264MBps Read speeds on a 2GB 1920x1080 10-Bit RGB file.

Is this the best I will get or am I screwing something up? Also, It would be difficult for me to fresh install everything because of all the apps that I have installed, and the settings.

Let me know your thoughts, and other vertex 2 users: whats your boot up time..?

Cheers!!!

 

[Woodcrest64]

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That is what my wife gets with her 256gb ssd for a cold boot up. It's the apple stock version. It sure is a lot faster than my windows laptop with a 60gb vertex 2 SSD at 1 minute. When I had a HDD it would take 2 minutes. So 23 seconds is smokin!

 

[lavrishevo]

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That is what my wife gets with her 256gb ssd for a cold boot up. It's the apple stock version. It sure is a lot faster than my windows laptop with a 60gb vertex 2 SSD at 1 minute. When I had a HDD it would take 2 minutes. So 23 seconds is smokin!

Actually, it is not smokin' compared to what people are seeing with the Vertex 3 boot times - 6 to 10 seconds. I boot on the stock 5400 speed drive in 24 seconds. Factory fresh image before my Time Machine re-image was 19 seconds flat.

 

[Dwalls90]

Actually, it is not smokin' compared to what people are seeing with the Vertex 3 boot times - 6 to 10 seconds. I boot on the stock 5400 speed drive in 24 seconds. Factory fresh image before my Time Machine re-image was 19 seconds flat.

Well that's because vertex 2 is rated at around 250-300 Megabytes/s where as the Vertex 3 is rated at 500-550 Megabytes/s (SATA III) ...

 

[lavrishevo]

Well that's because vertex 2 is rated at around 250-300 Megabytes/s where as the Vertex 3 is rated at 500-550 Megabytes/s (SATA III) ...

Yes I know this but I would expect the Vertex 2 to boot in like 12 - 15 seconds not 23. Not if a 5400 speed drive can do it in 24 seconds.

The amount of login items will also affect boot times so its hard to say why it is 23 seconds.

 

[johnnyturbouk]

how old is the v2 ssd?
do you have the latest f/w

my owc boots in 7-9secs and has consistant read of 270 / writes 260
trim enabled

habe u posted over at the ocz forums = those guys are seriously very good and know ocz ssds inside out

 

[Anshi]

how old is the v2 ssd?
do you have the latest f/w

my owc boots in 7-9secs and has consistant read of 270 / writes 260
trim enabled

habe u posted over at the ocz forums = those guys are seriously very good and know ocz ssds inside out

I have 1.28 firmware

I have not been able to upgrade to the 1.29 cause its a serious pain (you kno where) because do dont support Mac.

One more thing: I had installed a few apps on my 5400RPM HDD, it would take 24 seconds to boot, then I installed the Vertex 2, and its been 23 seconds since.. Hope this helps.

 

[johnnyturbouk]

I have 1.28 firmware

I have not been able to upgrade to the 1.29 cause its a serious pain (you kno where) because do dont support Mac.

One more thing: I had installed a few apps on my 5400RPM HDD, it would take 24 seconds to boot, then I installed the Vertex 2, and its been 23 seconds since.. Hope this helps.

Anshi i would head over to ocz and ask one of the moderators, they really know there ish.. inside out!

I think one of the first thing they will suggest is to back-up, secure-erase and install the newest f/w

 

[Anshi]

Anshi i would head over to ocz and ask one of the moderators, they really know there ish.. inside out!

I think one of the first thing they will suggest is to back-up, secure-erase and install the newest f/w

Ya, I think I should do that, and also fresh install OS X.

Thanx for the info.