I opened up and installed a new SSD in my 27" iMac (late 2013) after my flash storage died on me and while it runs very nicely once logged in (Write and Read speeds are both >400 mb/s, EtreCheck Performance rating= excellent), the boot-up is is slow as hell.
I press the power button and I can hear the hardrive (or something else) come to life but the chime doesn't come for a good 30-45 seconds, then once the logo appears, the progress bar moves quite fast until the the last 25% of the bar and then proceeds to take a good minute or 2 to take me to my user login.
The delay between pressing the power button and the chime was immediately present after my flash ssd failed. I've tried the usual troubleshoot methods from resetting SMC and NVRAM, selecting the new SSD from Startup disk etc.
Could this be a power supply/cord issue or bad/slow RAM (1600MHz 4GB x2 system report gave it "OK" status)? I'm at a loss.
I press the power button and I can hear the hardrive (or something else) come to life but the chime doesn't come for a good 30-45 seconds, then once the logo appears, the progress bar moves quite fast until the the last 25% of the bar and then proceeds to take a good minute or 2 to take me to my user login.
The delay between pressing the power button and the chime was immediately present after my flash ssd failed. I've tried the usual troubleshoot methods from resetting SMC and NVRAM, selecting the new SSD from Startup disk etc.
Could this be a power supply/cord issue or bad/slow RAM (1600MHz 4GB x2 system report gave it "OK" status)? I'm at a loss.
