Base 15" with Vertex 3 - The "spinning wheel" at boot only goes around twice. I haven't measured the actual time yet.
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Macbook Pro 2011 + SSD owners: how fast does your MBP boot?
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17" 2011 with a Vertex 3 MAXIOPS 120GB and 8GB of 1333 RAM.
I get as low as 6 seconds, and as long as 15.
6 seconds is kind of nice, its basically the ding, the apple comes up, then a flash of blue, and I'm ready to go. No spinning wheel.
It seems to depend on what the last state of the drive was, and if it has to check anything or install updates etc. Sometimes the wheel spins once, twice, or no times.
15 seconds is a big improvement from the 60 on my last laptop though.
That said, i kinda wish there was a better benchmark for people, as a lot of potential ssd buyers think boot speed is all there is.
I get as low as 6 seconds, and as long as 15.
6 seconds is kind of nice, its basically the ding, the apple comes up, then a flash of blue, and I'm ready to go. No spinning wheel.
It seems to depend on what the last state of the drive was, and if it has to check anything or install updates etc. Sometimes the wheel spins once, twice, or no times.
15 seconds is a big improvement from the 60 on my last laptop though.
That said, i kinda wish there was a better benchmark for people, as a lot of potential ssd buyers think boot speed is all there is.
I don't even see the spinning wheel on mine, it goes from the Apple logo to the desktop (assuming I've enabled auto-login) in about 15-18 seconds (power button to everything loaded).
OK, this is what my Vertex 2 looks like with a nearly identical score. I'd say there's somthing wrong..
Unsurprisingly my Intel 320 gets almost identical score to that too, 340ish depending on when I run it, only difference to what was posted seems to be faster read speeds.
Having never run Xbench before is this good or bad?
Seems slow
A little late to the conversation, but...
I have a MBP15 with the 2.2 i7 and 8g ram. I just installed a Force 180g SSD, Sata3. My boot time seems long. From button-on to Apple logo is 35 seconds, but, once i get the logo, I'm in 15 seconds ( I force a logon process). Any thoughts on why this initial 35 sec delay is occuring? I can't find anything about a fastboot or POST adjustment nerd-knob...
A little late to the conversation, but...
I have a MBP15 with the 2.2 i7 and 8g ram. I just installed a Force 180g SSD, Sata3. My boot time seems long. From button-on to Apple logo is 35 seconds, but, once i get the logo, I'm in 15 seconds ( I force a logon process). Any thoughts on why this initial 35 sec delay is occuring? I can't find anything about a fastboot or POST adjustment nerd-knob...
That sounds like the first delay is while it is looking for the boot drive. Go to System Prefs and Startup Disk and make sure you have your new SSD selected as the startup disk.
Crucial M4: 17 seconds. 2011 13" MBP, i5
But benchmarks on a conventional HDD can be misleading based on the time the desktop background picture is displayed. Depending on where you left off prior to rebooting Lion, there is still a lot of crap being loaded before you can actually use your machine. (Especially on a 5400RPM drive). Before I installed an SSD this was taking another 45-60 seconds.
