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Intel X25M cannot beat 30s bootup time

80gb x25m G2 here

also takes 30 seconds

My problem is it takes forever to get to the loading wheal. From button press to loading wheal on white screen it takes about 12 seconds.

Is yours doing the same thing? Or is the loading wheel taking forever?
 
If I were getting an oem intel SSD drive, have it formatted to NTFS, plug it into a windows machine and run Intel Toolbox on it? And then just put it in the MBP, format to HFS+ and go from there? Instead of the linux method?
 
Reset my PRAM no such luck.

15 seconds till loading wheel.....
Still 28 seconds to boot from button press.
28 second boot isnt bad.

Even though the boot drive and all boot files are in the primary location on the SSD, I assume its the 500gb 7200rpm in the cd drive bay slowing things down.
 
Hmmm...I have my 500Gb drive in the optical bay, and my Corsair SSD boots in about 15 seconds.

There is no way that my cheap drive should be two times faster than your Intel.

Have you considered maybe re-installing SL?

30 secs is still not bad, but it's just a bit worrisome that something could be wrong.
 
I have made many threads about this but no one replied lol. I am a new owner of a Intel X25 M 160GB SSD. When I did a clean install of SL 10.6.3 it was fine then once updating to 10.6.4 I noticed an increase in boot. It takes 6 seconds from power on to initialize the super drive. After that 14 seconds to a fully loaded desktop.

I have also noticed boot time increases with boot camp and vmware or parallels on 10.6.4.

The SOLUTION IS: Leave OS X sit idle for about 20 minutes. I did this twice now and I would imagine its indexing the boot cache or something because my boot times decreased back down to 20 seconds from power on after this.

All I can say is let's hope 10.6.5 decreases boot time even more and doesn't add to it once indexed. :p
 
it looks like bootcamp or vmwares may be the reason for slow booting. applebook, do you have either of those installed on your MB?
 
Just a two-week fresh 10.6.4 installation right now, nothing else. I do have my 500Gb in the optical bay.
 
Maybe you can try to boot in verbose mode (hold Command V) to see if there is something in particular which takes some time.
 
aznguyen316 said:
it looks like bootcamp or vmwares may be the reason for slow booting. applebook, do you have either of those installed on your MB?
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I had both and they slowed my boot time to about 32 seconds on an SSD. I was using the trial of VMware and I have since removed it. As I said before, leave OS X sit idle for about 20 minutes. During this time it will index the boot cache. Those with a SSD can't hear any hard drive activity but we've all heard constant hard drive activity with a regular hard drive and this is what its doing.
 
Try going to your startup items (I think Sys Prefs, Users) and disabling iTunes helper, it seemed to help my boot times. I have a 15" i7/8gb/120gb SSD, with Bootcamp Windows 7. I'm not at home to time it, but would guess definately no more than a 15 sec boot time (the wheel below the apple logo turns 60% of one turn before booting in). The same wheel was turning 3 times with the iTuneshelper enabled.

When I got the machine fresh, it was the same 60% of one turn, but somehow through the iTunes updates, OSX updates, VMWare/Bootcamp it increased.
 
TheBritishBloke said:
I knew you'd say that...

If you're so desperate, I'll post one when I get my Mac back next week.
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It's not that i'm "desperate"; but i'd like to see a video of the only 5400 RPM drive in existence that can boot a Mac from button press to full desktop in 25 seconds actually do it. And you seem to have it.
 
MBHockey said:
It's not that i'm "desperate"; but i'd like to see a video of the only 5400 RPM drive in existence that can boot a Mac from button press to full desktop in 25 seconds actually do it. And you seem to have it.
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Heres my video a few months ago.
Sorry for the music.(GF got me hook)
This is a clean install,time to boot be from pressing the power key was under 30 secs with only battery power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tm2rpfLEU.
 
MBHockey said:
More like 35 seconds, but still impressive for a HD. What HDs are in those Macs? Just the stock 5400 drives?
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Yah just the default 5400 from apple.

Again the new one was only under batter power.Dont know if theres a difference of boot times between ac power or battery power.
Also in the video I hit the power key at around 3 secs in and when the computer went to the desktop it was around 33-34 secs.
So really I would say 30 secs for boot up time.

But in the end,Who really cares about boot up times on their computer :rolleyes:
 
My hackintosh takes just under a minute. 7200 rpm 1 gig ram. Pentium 4. 10.5.6. That's way faster than win 7 on the same system
 
my 2010 boots to desktop in 1 min but I see that during the boot it is stuck around 20 sec on the message
Code: 
DSMOS has arrived.

Any ideas what that is ?
 
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