Installed Corsair SSD, then slow boot time.

[Ice Dragon]

Ack... is this something else I need to worry about?

I thought all I needed when I installed an OWC SSD was to just install it and Snow Leopard and I would see a speed difference (which it seems that would be it).

What is the deal though with there being issues with boot time?

 

[tble]

It is pretty much plug it in and see it fly just a few small things you have to set it up, that's if you even need to. Shouldn't take longer than a couple minutes after installing osx.

SSDs are probably the best upgrade ever, makes the comp feel like it's worth a million bucks. It's so worth the money.

 

[Giuly]

Well I've been told that "technically,"
SSDs don't necessary increase the speed of boot time.
It does increase the speed of everything else.

Personally though,
my SSD dramatically increases boot time.
Go figures.

When you boot, the kernel, drivers, daemons, config files, etc. pp. get loaded from the disk.
Have you ever heard the sounds a hard drive makes at boot time? It's going wild.

These are all pretty small files, what you were be told was rather that SSDs are much slower when using smaller blocksizes:

A 600GB VelociRaptor (the fastest SATA hard drive) is much slower overall:

As soon as you you a SSD, it's faster, regardless of what you do (At least SandForce-based SSDs like the G.Skill Phoenix and the OWC ones)

 

[Ice Dragon]

It is pretty much plug it in and see it fly just a few small things you have to set it up, that's if you even need to. Shouldn't take longer than a couple minutes after installing osx.

SSDs are probably the best upgrade ever, makes the comp feel like it's worth a million bucks. It's so worth the money.

Oh no doubt... from all that I read I agree completely though is there a guide as to what I might need to do after installation?

 

[deus ex machina]

I have the same delayed boot issue (though I simply dealt with it).
The ssd does not appear in the system preference/startup disk menu ("network.." is the only one available).
What do I need to do to correct this and the ssd humming along?

Thank you in advance,
-d

 

[dr. shdw]

For future reference, you should always do a clean install and migrate your stuff over instead of cloning.

 

[deus ex machina]

For future reference, you should always do a clean install and migrate your stuff over instead of cloning.

Following your advice, I cloned my ssd, performed a clean install, then migrated the disk back. Worked like a charm, thank you.

-david

 

[Nigel10]

Well I figured out what the problem was after much agony, my peripherals in particular my mouse. I'm using a steelseries xai (mouse) and it never occured to me that it was the cause of my boot time taking eons.

I unplugged it and voila, the new vertex 2 i replaced the x25m with booted up OSX in literatly 4-5 seconds. I had a nerd-gasm on the spot....

Hope this helps some people who've tried to reset their PRAM, setting the boot drive and reseting SMC with no luck.

Cheers.

Same problem, same solution. Steel series XAI mouse. Unplugged and boot time went back to super-fast.

 

[hoching]

Same problem, same solution. Steel series XAI mouse. Unplugged and boot time went back to super-fast.

I encountered the same problem. I've installed a OCZ 120Gb SSD in the Mac mini (mid 2010) and have a clean install of OSX Snow Leopard and it booted super fast (within 10s). I've been used it for a month and one day the boot time just slowed down to about 1min (62 second to be exact, every boot use the same time) so I try to format it and reinstall, and the boot time still the same (62s) after a clean install. I was puzzled and try to pull all the peripheral out of the Mini and the boot time restored to within 10s. Then i use my time machine to restore the SSD (the newly install OSX was erased) and the boot time restore!! But the boot time slow down again after few days....

Two things are learned in this experience:
1. Time Machine Restore may not erase ALL the data in your drive.
2. Periperals may affect the OSX boot time (OSX seems waiting for something at boot time)

anyone have any idea about the slow boot? (i have a macbook with HDD that never has such problem)

 

[cpineda]

Slow Mac Book Start with SSD

After cloning to your new SSD and rebooting, be sure to go to System Preferences | Startup Disk ... select your new SSD drive as the boot disk. I know this seems counter intuitive since of course you have already booted, but this stops your Mac from searching for alternative boot devices (usually the NIC) before finally booting from your new SSD.

I had 45 second +/- cold boots after I installed my new 250GB Crucial SSD in my Aluminum MacBook ... after selecting the SSD in Boot Disk prefs, I now have 10-15 second boots. And the SSD is blazingly fast. Great upgrade.

 

[ibarnett]

Thanks guys!!
I am on my 1st Mac, a Macbook Pro, & have just installed a re-formated SSD to the Mac system & couldn't understand the slow boot time.
This thread has solved the problem!
All happy now.

 

[alanmcdonley]

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moved

 

[LS3 Machine]

Worked for me too

I just installed a sammy 840 pro, and while it was fast for normal use, the boot time was slow. I found this thread, and now I have a 9-10 second boot. I imaging instead of cloning and swapping the SSD if I would have just installed the SSD, and done a clean install, it wouldn't have happened this way, but setting the boot drive sure worked for me. I wonder if there are any other things that will work better with a clean install? My MBP is almost brand new (2012 Cmbp 2.7 15 inch), so it didn't have much software installed, just about 3 programs in addition to the OS. Im tempted to do a clean install, but its working just fine, so I guess no need?

Tim